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The festival was founded and established by Brian Greene, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University and author of several science books (including The Elegant Universe, and The Hidden Reality); and Tracy Day, a four-time National News Emmy Award-winning journalist, who has produced live and documentary programs for the nation's most prominent television news departments.
Alan Alda, Tracy Day and Brian Greene at the press conference announcing the 2008 festival. The World Science Festival was founded by Brian Greene, a Columbia University physics professor and author of several popular-science books (such as The Elegant Universe), and his wife, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day.
In June 2016, the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project produced the two LIGO programs at the World Science Festival in New York, including the main stage panel moderated by theoretical physicist and best-selling author Brian Greene, featuring five of the key physicists behind the historic detection, including Rai Weiss and Barry Barish, and four short videos [12] from the Project's exclusive ...
Brian Randolph Greene [1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory.He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008.
Guinness World Records certified the movie as The World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film ever made. [5] The film was accepted into the Tribeca Online Film Festival and shown at the New York Tech Meet-up and the World Science Festival. The film surpassed a million views in 24 hours, and two million views in 48 hours, with more than 27,000 likes.
A science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with a similar atmosphere to an arts or music festival, and that primarily targets the general public. These public engagement events can be varied, including lectures , exhibitions , workshops , live demonstrations of experiments , guided tours , and panel discussions .
Worldcon, officially the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention. It has been held each year since 1939 (except for the years 1942 to 1945, during World War II ). [ 1 ]
Naturally Obsessed is a 2009 documentary film that opens a view on the training of scientists and the process of discovery. Shot over three years' time in the molecular biology laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Shapiro of the Columbia University Medical Center, the film chronicles how the tool of X-ray crystallography enables the discovery of the workings of the AMPK protein molecule, revealing a new ...