Black Holes in Space - Hearts of Darkness (SETIcon 2)
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 3 Οκτ 2014
Panelists:
Robert J. Sawyer -
one of only eight writers in history to win all three of the
science-fiction field’s top awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo,
the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He frequently
writes about SETI, including in the Hugo Award finalists Rollback and
Factoring Humanity. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his
novel of the same name. He has published in Science (guest editorial),
Nature (fiction), and Sky & Telescope, was a participant in the
workshop “The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos” sponsored jointly by
the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, is a contributor
to DARPA’s “100 Year Starship Project,” and was Guest of Honor at the
first-contact conference CONTACT 4 Japan.
Andre Bormanis - Andre
is an American television producer, screenwriter and author of the book
Star Trek: Science Logs. Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in
the long-running Star Trek franchise, and was the science consultant on
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek:
Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also wrote several episodes of the
Voyager and Enterprise series, as well as acting as science/technical
advisor on the "Next Generation" films. He was also a writer and
producer for the CBS science fiction drama Threshold; the CBS drama
series Eleventh Hour; the ABC Studios production Legend of the Seeker;
and the upcoming Disney Studios production Tron: Uprising.
Alex
Filippenko - Alex is the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished
Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley. An elected member of
the National Academy of Sciences, he is one of the world's most highly
cited astronomers and has received numerous prizes for his research. His
primary areas of research are supernovae (exploding stars), active
galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and cosmology. He was a member
of both teams that used observations of supernovae to discover the
accelerating expansion of the universe, which was honored with the 2011
Nobel Prize in Physics to the team leaders. Winner of the top teaching
awards at UC Berkeley and voted the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9
times, he was selected as the National Professor of the Year in 2006.
He has produced five astronomy video courses with "The Great Courses,"
wrote an award-winning college textbook, and appears in numerous TV
documentaries, including about 40 episodes in "The Universe" series on
The History Channel.
Leonard Mlodinow - Leonard received his PhD
in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley
and now teaches at Caltech. He has written for numerous scientific
journals, as well as for the popular press, including Nature, The New
York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of
several best-sellers including The Drunkard’s Walk: how randomness rules
our lives (2008), and The Grand Design (2010), co-authored with Stephen
Hawking. His latest book is Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules
your behavior. In addition, he has written for television series such
as MacGyver, and Star Trek: the Next Generation.
Moderator:
Andrew
Fraknoi - Andrew is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill
College and Senior Educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
He teaches courses on "astronomy and physics for poets" to about a
thousand students each year. In 2007, he was selected as the Professor
of the Year for the state of California by the Carnegie Endowment for
Education. He appears frequently on local and national radio, explaining
astronomical developments in everyday language. His book for children,
"Disney's Wonderful World of Space" was published in 2007, he is the
lead author on a series of college astronomy textbooks, and he has
edited two books of science and science fiction for Bantam. Asteroid
4859 has been named Asteroid Fraknoi by the International Astronomical
Union in recognition of his contributions to science popularization. He
currently serves as Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the SETI
Institute.
Robert J. Sawyer -
one of only eight writers in history to win all three of the
science-fiction field’s top awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo,
the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He frequently
writes about SETI, including in the Hugo Award finalists Rollback and
Factoring Humanity. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his
novel of the same name. He has published in Science (guest editorial),
Nature (fiction), and Sky & Telescope, was a participant in the
workshop “The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos” sponsored jointly by
the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, is a contributor
to DARPA’s “100 Year Starship Project,” and was Guest of Honor at the
first-contact conference CONTACT 4 Japan.
Andre Bormanis - Andre
is an American television producer, screenwriter and author of the book
Star Trek: Science Logs. Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in
the long-running Star Trek franchise, and was the science consultant on
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek:
Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also wrote several episodes of the
Voyager and Enterprise series, as well as acting as science/technical
advisor on the "Next Generation" films. He was also a writer and
producer for the CBS science fiction drama Threshold; the CBS drama
series Eleventh Hour; the ABC Studios production Legend of the Seeker;
and the upcoming Disney Studios production Tron: Uprising.
Alex
Filippenko - Alex is the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished
Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley. An elected member of
the National Academy of Sciences, he is one of the world's most highly
cited astronomers and has received numerous prizes for his research. His
primary areas of research are supernovae (exploding stars), active
galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and cosmology. He was a member
of both teams that used observations of supernovae to discover the
accelerating expansion of the universe, which was honored with the 2011
Nobel Prize in Physics to the team leaders. Winner of the top teaching
awards at UC Berkeley and voted the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9
times, he was selected as the National Professor of the Year in 2006.
He has produced five astronomy video courses with "The Great Courses,"
wrote an award-winning college textbook, and appears in numerous TV
documentaries, including about 40 episodes in "The Universe" series on
The History Channel.
Leonard Mlodinow - Leonard received his PhD
in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley
and now teaches at Caltech. He has written for numerous scientific
journals, as well as for the popular press, including Nature, The New
York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of
several best-sellers including The Drunkard’s Walk: how randomness rules
our lives (2008), and The Grand Design (2010), co-authored with Stephen
Hawking. His latest book is Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules
your behavior. In addition, he has written for television series such
as MacGyver, and Star Trek: the Next Generation.
Moderator:
Andrew
Fraknoi - Andrew is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill
College and Senior Educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
He teaches courses on "astronomy and physics for poets" to about a
thousand students each year. In 2007, he was selected as the Professor
of the Year for the state of California by the Carnegie Endowment for
Education. He appears frequently on local and national radio, explaining
astronomical developments in everyday language. His book for children,
"Disney's Wonderful World of Space" was published in 2007, he is the
lead author on a series of college astronomy textbooks, and he has
edited two books of science and science fiction for Bantam. Asteroid
4859 has been named Asteroid Fraknoi by the International Astronomical
Union in recognition of his contributions to science popularization. He
currently serves as Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the SETI
Institute.
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