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John Wise, Gongjie Li - Cosmology and Exoplanets: Unpacking the 2019 Nobel Prize in PhysicsCosmology studies the universe at the largest scales, applying the laws of physics over billions of light years and all the way back to the universe's infancy. In dozens of groundbreaking…
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David Hu - Cube-Shaped Poo and Georgia Tech's Second Ig Nobel PrizeHow does a wombat produce cube-shaped feces? How long does it take an elephant to urinate? Answering these two questions have landed David Hu two Ig Nobel Prizes, awards given at Harvard University…
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Konstantin Batygin - Planet Nine From Outer SpaceAt the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune, lies an expansive field of icy debris known as the Kuiper belt. The orbits of the individual asteroid-like bodies within the Kuiper…
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Jennifer Curtis, Chandra Raman, Rick Trebino - Celebration of 2018 Physics Nobel Prize: Lighting the way with microscopic tractor beams and sculpted laser pulseThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two breakthrough inventions in laser physics. The first, optical tweezers, allows scientist and engineers to use lasers like the tractor beams of Star Trek…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto - Non-Euclidean Virtual RealityThe 2016 confirmation of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves has put the spotlight back on the importance of curvature for the physics of the universe. While the ability of mass to…
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Seth Shostak - When Will We Find E.T. and What Happens If We Do?Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven’t discovered any cosmic company. Could all this mean…
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Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817: A Multi-sensory Experience of the Universe - Laura Cadonati, Nepomuk Otte, Ignacio TaboadaAugust 17, 2017, is a milestone date for astrophysics. For the first time, the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories detected signals from the collision of two neutron stars. The powerful…
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Will Evolution and Information Theory Provide The Fundamentals Of Physics? - S. James Gates, Jr.This presentation will describe an arc in the mathematical/theoretical physics research of the presenter that has traversed concept spaces from equations, to graphical imagery, to coding theory…
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From Molecules to Migration: How Quantum Physics Can Explain the Compass of Birds - Thorsten RitzThe world of quantum physics appears mysterious, even spooky, and far removed from everyday phenomena we can observe in the world around us. Especially the realm of living organisms was thought to be…
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Einstein's Cosmos and the Quantum: Origin of Space, Time, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe - Abhay AshtekarFor over two millennia, civilizations have pondered over the questions of cosmogenesis. But serious attempts to address them began only with Einstein's discovery of general relativity a century…
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The Ig Nobel Prizes and Improbable Research - Marc AbrahamsThe Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991, in gala ceremonies at Harvard and MIT, with winners traveling from…
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The Physics and Materials Science of Superheroes - James KakaliosIn 2001 James Kakalios created a Freshman Seminar class at the University of Minnesota entitled: "Everything I Know About Science I Learned from Reading Comic Books." This is a real physics…
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10 Years of Southern Stargazing: How Star Trek Changed Everything - Glenn BurnsA public lecture by Glenn Burns Chief meteorologist, WSB-TVThe destination for the 1960s Apollo missions was the Moon, but the premiere of Star Trek in 1966 got the nation thinking about…
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The Square Kilometre Array: Big Telescope, Big Science, Big Data - Russ TaylorThe Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a next-generation global radio telescope undergoing final design by a collaboration of institutions in 11 countries. One of the largest scientific projects ever…
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The Physics of Genes and the Promise of Personalized Medicine - Alek AksimentievThe twenty-first century is poised to see dramatic advances in medicine. The rapid after water and oxygen, is the most famous molecule of life known. This is not surprising, as the eye-catching…
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Strange and subtle states of matter – the topological ideas behind the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics - Paul M. GoldbartThe gases, liquids, and solids that humans have known and harnessed since prehistory are human-scale reflections of how atoms and molecules are organized at the atomic scale. This organization is…
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