
Science & Cocktails
Wo 13/07 - Amsterdam
Paradiso - Amsterdam
19:30 - 01:00
Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. This event will be in English. Be the first to know when the next Science & Cocktails Amsterdam event(s) will take place by subscribing to our newsletter.
19h30: Doors open
19:45 – 20:15: Elephant (live music)
20:30 – 21:00: Hiroshi Ooguri
21:00 – 21:30: Andrew Strominger
21:30 – 21:45: Q&A
21:45 – 23:00: DJ Mulat
Event in English, semi-seated
19:45 – 20:15: Elephant (live music)
20:30 – 21:00: Hiroshi Ooguri
21:00 – 21:30: Andrew Strominger
21:30 – 21:45: Q&A
21:45 – 23:00: DJ Mulat
Event in English, semi-seated
Gravity, black holes, string theory and the universe
Science & Cocktails is proud to present an episode with world renowned theoretical physicists and string theorists Hiroshi Ooguri - professor at California Institute of Technology and at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, and Andrew Strominger – professor at the University of Harvard. A journey through the mysteries of universe including gravity, the forces of nature, black holes and string theory.
What is gravity?
Gravity is the most familiar force in Nature. It bounds us on the surface of the Earth, and it is a key to our understanding of the Universe. It is also the most mysterious of all the forces. In the past couple of decades, there have been remarkable discoveries, both in theory and observations, that have changed our view on space, time, and the gravity. Hiroshi Ooguri will give you a tour of the seven wonders of the gravity and discuss insight we have gained from these recent discoveries.
Black Holes: the Most Paradoxical Objects in the Universe
In the last decade black holes have come to center stage in both theoretical and observational science. Theoretically, they were shown a half-century ago by Stephen Hawking and others to obey a precise but still-mysterious set of laws which imply they are paradoxically both the simplest and most complex objects in the universe. Compelling progress on this paradox has occured recently. Observationally, they have finally and dramatically been seen in the sky, including at LIGO and the Event Horizon Telescope. Future prospects for progress on both fronts hinge on emergent symmetries occuring near the black holes. An elementary presentation of aspects of these topics and their interplay will be given Andrew Strominger.
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