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Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson - Cornell University
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Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality
Roger Penrose - University of Oxford
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My Top 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
Marcus Chown - New Scientist
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Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Sara Seager - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics
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Quantum Life
Seth Lloyd - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT)
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Why did Isaac Newton Believe in Alchemy?
William Newman - Indiana University
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Searching for the Quantum Origins of Space and Time
Renate Loll - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson - Cornell University
Learn about the future of â3D Printersâ â machines that will fabricate arbitrary-shaped parts, layer by layer. Dr. Lipson will share a history of these technologies and preview a future in which we continue to gain unprecedented control over physical matter. If humans distinguish themselves… -
Origins of the Digital Universe
Some numbers mean things, and some numbers do things. Making--and breaking--that distinction was central to renowned mathematician John von Neumannâs implementation of Alan Turingâs Universal Machine in 1945-56. In this lecture, you will learn about the unlikeliest place on earth to build such a… -
Living Through Four Revolutions
I belong to the lucky generation who survived World War Two and unexpectedly found ourselves alive and young at the dawn of four simultaneous revolutions. We were present at the creation of four new technologies that were to continue transforming the world for the following sixty-five years. First… -
Systems Biology, Emerging Technologies and The Transformation from Reactive to Proactive (P4) Medicine
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Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality
Roger Penrose - University of Oxford
Space and time are two of the universe's most fundamental elements. Relativity combines these two into the unified notion of space-time, but twistor theory goes beyond this replacing both by something entirely different, where the basic elements are the paths taken by particles of light or other… -
My Top 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe
Marcus Chown - New Scientist
Did you know you could fit the entire human race in the volume of a sugar cube? Or that, if the Sun were made of bananas, it wouldn't make much difference? Or that 98 per cent of the Universe is invisible? Award-winning science writer Marcus Chown invites you to come along and discover how the… -
Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Sara Seager - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Physics
For thousands of years people have wondered, "Are we alone?" Out of the 500 planets so far known to orbit nearby stars, about 100 transit their host stars, that is, the planet goes in front of its star as seen from Earth. The transiting planets are "goldmines" for astronomers, because the planetary… -
Stopping Time
Eric Mazur - Harvard University
Time is of philosophical interest as well as the subject of mathematical and scientific research. Even though it is a concept familiar to most, the passage of time remains one of the greatest enigmas of the universe. The philosopher Augustine once said: "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know… -
Quantum Life
Seth Lloyd - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory (xQIT)
Recent experimental evidence suggests that living organisms are using quantum mechanics in a sophisticated fashion to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis. Bacteria are essentially performing a quantum computation to extract energy from light. I will show how plants and bacteria perform quantum… -
Why did Isaac Newton Believe in Alchemy?
William Newman - Indiana University
Isaac Newton is known today as one of the most profound scientists to have ever lived. Newton's discoveries in physics, optics, and mathematics overturned a variety of fundamental beliefs about nature and reshaped science in ways that are still powerfully with us. But this is only part of Newton's… -
The Ubiquitous Bell Curve: What it does and doesn't tell us
The Bell Curve is an extremely beautiful and elegant mathematical object that turns up – often in surprising ways – in all spheres of human life. The Curve was first used by astronomers to correct errors in their observations, but it soon found important applications in the social and medical… -
Searching for the Quantum Origins of Space and Time
Renate Loll - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has taught us that empty space (or, more precisely, spacetime) is in itself a dynamical and wonderfully rich entity for both theoretical physicists and science fiction authors alike. Although it may stretch our imagination, astrophysical observations leave…