V.S. Ramachandran is a Distinguished Professor in UCSD’s Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. Ramachandran is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. After earning a medical degree in India, Ramachandran studied experimental neuroscience at Cambridge,…
Robbert Dijkgraaf is the Director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections…
Max More is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies. Born in Bristol, England, More has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Anne’s College, Oxford. His 1995 University of Southern California doctoral dissertation “The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, and Transformation” examined several issues that concern…
Natasha Vita-More is a faculty member in design, media arts, and theory at the University of Advancing Technology. She is a strategic designer in the area of human enhancement and life extension. Her interests are located within the ethical uses of science and technology and socio-political implications of revolutionary advances impacting humanity’s future. She holds…
Julia Mossbridge, M.A., Ph.D. is a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), the CEO and Research Director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, and a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. Her research interest is primarily to understand how time is perceived by the conscious and subconscious minds. This has led…
Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also earned a MA and PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley. Tegmark later returned to Europe and accepted an appointment as a…
Frank Jennings Tipler is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. He holds a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD from the University of Maryland. Tipler was hired in a series of postdoctoral researcher positions in physics at three universities, with…
Frank Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, and a PhD in Physics at…
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions…
Jill Tarter is the former Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. She earned her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and a MS and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. Tarter served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution…
Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. Weinberg received his Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. He studied at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and earned his PhD in Physics at Princeton University. He…
Fred Alan Wolf is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University and the author of a number of books about physics. His book Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists won a 1982 U.S.…