Montgomery Fellow Alan Alda steps out from his well know role in front of the camera to discuss science in the Moore Theater.
[more]Topic: "Off the Extreme Energy Cliff From Space" (Video)
[more]Topic: "Branched flow of waves and rays in quantum mechanics, oceanography, acoustics, and more" (Video) Abstract: The familiar twinkling of starlight or the pattern of sunlight on a pool bottom is the beginning of the phenomenon of branched flow, which applies to both waves and rays. It is a beautiful and poorly studied phenomenon, given its ubiquity. We illustrate, explain, and discuss the applicability across many fields of science.
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The 2013 E.E. Just Symposium is set to be a reprise of last year’s star-studded premiere event, though not precisely a repeat performance. “This year it takes a new tack evident in its theme, ‘Exploring the Future of STEM’,” says symposium organizer and Dartmouth theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander, the E.E. Just 1907 Professor of Natural Sciences.
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Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy, answers science’s most important questions from The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns.
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