Montgomery Fellow Alan Alda steps out from his well know role in front of the camera to discuss science in the Moore Theater.

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.

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.

Quasars are among the brightest, oldest, most distant, and most powerful objects in the universe. Powered by massive black holes at the center of most known galaxies, quasars can emit enormous amounts of energy, up to a thousand times the total output of the hundreds of billions of stars in our entire Milky Way.

With their promise of unimaginable speed and huge capacity, quantum computers stand to revolutionize the world of information processing.