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Stephen Hawking and The Universe Event Poster

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Purpose

Screen 1991 film on Hawking, have Q&A with filmmakers. Experts discuss science since then and where we are on the topic, along with personal stories about Hawking. Book signings for speakers and stargazing Saturday night.

Key Dates

  • Saturday, Sunday, April 27-28, 2024 Main events, lectures, film screening; Los Alamos
  • Monday, April 29, 2024LANL Director's Colloquium by Malcolm Perry
    Hosted by Avadh Saxena (details)
  • Tuesday, April 30, 2024Special Seminar at LANL by Gordon Freedman (details)
Connections to Oppenheimer

Screening and Talk: Award-Winning Feature Documentary "A Brief History of Time"

Gordon Freedman

Executive Producer, A Brief History of Time
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Distinguished Speakers: Cosmologists, Students, Friends and Collaborators of Professor Stephen Hawking

Paul Davies

Paul Davies
Regent Professor, Arizona State University, Director of the ASU BEYOND Center
Fumika Suzuki

Fumika Suzuki
Laura Mersini-Houghton

Laura Mersini-Houghton
Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Headshot of Emil Mottola

Emil Mottola

Kip Thorne
Nobel laureate Caltech Emeritus
Malcolm Perry headshot

Malcolm Perry
Thomas Hertog

Thomas Hertog
Professor, Theoretical Physics, KU Leuven
Ray Laflamme

Ray Laflamme*

 * Unable to attend
Perimeter Institute LANL Postdoc
Learn more about the speakers