Panelists
- Paul Davies
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- Director, Beyond: Institute for Fundamental Concepts in
Physics, Arizona State University
- An internationally renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist,
astrobiologist and acclaimed author and broadcaster, Professor Davies is the
author of over 20 books, including How to Build a Time Machine and the
recent Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?. His
popular science television productions
The Big Questions
(ABC Australia) and The Cradle of Life (BBC) have won international
acclaim.
- George
Efstathiou
- F.R.S., Director, Institute
of Astronomy, Cambridge University
- Professor Efstathiou is one of the world's best known cosmologists. For
over 25 years, he has combined deep theoretical insights with major
observational campaigns to understand the large-scale cosmic web of
galaxies. He is a principal architect of the current paradigm for
understanding the formation of structure in our universe.
- David Gross
- Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics and Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics, University
of California at Santa Barbara
- Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his contribution to the
Standard Model of quantum physics, Dr. Gross has also garnered several other
prestigious awards, including the Oskar Klein Medal, the Dirac Medal and the
Grande Medaille D'Or.
- Leonard Susskind
- Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics,
Stanford University
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Dr. Susskind is one of the leading figures in theoretical physics, and
is widely regarded as the father of modern string theory. The author of
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent
Design, it was Professor Susskind who recently posed the basic question
at the heart of the anthropic principle debate: “... Can science
explain the extraordinary fact that the universe appears to be uncannily,
nay, spectacularly, well designed for our own existence?”
Moderator
- Victoria Kaspi
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- Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and
Cosmology, and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, McGill
University
- Dr. Kaspi is an internationally respected expert on neutron stars,
she was part of a team that recently discovered the fastest-rotating pulsar
known to science. A multi-award-winner in astrophysics, Dr. Kaspi recently
received Canada's prestigious Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences.
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