Charles Buchanan
Ravi Gomatam
Ravi Gomatam is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and the Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology. After obtaining his master’s degree in electronics engineering, Ravi Gomatam worked for a few years with Air India in Mumbai, on software development projects, including online crew scheduling. He then went to the USA, where he worked for…
Edward Witten
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and the Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. In addition to his contributions to physics, Witten’s work has significantly impacted…
Licia Verde
Licia Verde is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include large-scale structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background. She received a Laurea degree in 1996 from University of Padua and a PhD in 2000 from the University…
Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck is an American mathematician and a founder of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. She is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior…
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder is an author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is creator and producer of the YouTube channel “Science Without the Gobbledygook”. She is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, which explores the concept of elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology, and her latest book, Existential Physics:…
Jim Holt
Jim Holt is a journalist, author in popular science, and essayist. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and Slate. In 1997, he was editor of The New Leader, a political magazine. His book Why Does the…
Robbert Dijkgraaf
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…
Tim Maudlin
Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science and a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are focused in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and…
John Peacock
John Peacock is a cosmologist, astronomer and professor of cosmology in the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. Peacock studied physics at the University of Cambridge, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1981. He worked as a research astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, where he was appointed Head of Research in 1992. He is…
Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk is Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Cambridge and earned his PhD from Harvard in 1968. Silk was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge and Princeton, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oxford. He joined Johns Hopkins in 2010. Silk has…