Conversations from the Leading Edge

EP 06 - Nuclear Energy and Containment with Cosmologist, Janna Levin


Listen Later

Dr. Janna Levin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Columbia, discusses the topic of nuclear energy and containment, and its connections to peace and conflict, with AC4's Meredith Smith and Kim Nguyen. Dr. Levin specializes in black holes and chaos theory, including the cosmology of extra dimensions and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of How the Universe Got its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space and a recent novel about the famous mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, titled A Madman Dream of Turing Machines, which one the PEN/Bingham Prize. She has been called one of the most direct and unorthodox voices in contemporary science.
For more info on Janna Levin: http://www.jannalevin.com
Photo from http://www.jannalevin.com/bio.html
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Conversations from the Leading EdgeBy AC4 - Columbia