Quanta Magazine Season 2018

(2018) January | # of Episodes : 26

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Seasons: 9

Total Episodes: 180

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Episode 1

09 January 2018 - Richard Schwartz: In Praise of Simple Problems

Mathematician Richard Schwartz talks about why he's attracted to the hidden depths of simple problems.

Episode 2

18 January 2018 - Ed Boyden on the Promise of Expansion Microscopy

Ed Boyden of MIT’s Media Lab, the inventor of expansion microscopy, explains how the technique could illuminate deep mysteries about how the brain works and improve cancer diagnosis, among many other advances.

Episode 3

30 January 2018 - Erich Jarvis on Theories About the Origin of Vocal Learning

Neuroscientist Erich Jarvis discusses how the brain circuitry for vocal learning in songbirds and humans evolved from systems for controlling body movements and why so few species have this ability.

Episode 4

14 February 2018 - Daniel Goldman and His Smart Robots

Goldman explains how “smarticles” work together to demonstrate collective behavior.

Episode 5

27 February 2018 - Barbara Engelhardt on How to Improve Statistical Analyses of Genomes

Barbara Engelhardt, a computer scientist at Princeton University, explains why traditional machine-learning techniques have often fallen short for genomic analysis, and how researchers are overcoming that challenge.

Episode 6

19 March 2018 - Günter Ziegler Seeks God’s Perfect Math Proofs

Günter Ziegler describes one of the most famous and beautiful proofs in "Proofs From THE BOOK," a book he co-authored with Martin Aigner.

Episode 7

11 April 2018 - Donald Richards: A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the Universe

Donald Richards discusses the statistical rule-of-thumb he wishes everyone knew.

Episode 8

24 May 2018 - Michela Massimi: Defending the Philosophy of Science

Michela Massimi argues that the philosophy of science doesn’t have to be useful to scientists for it to be useful to humanity.

Episode 9

11 June 2018 - Lisa Manning on the Dynamics of Glasses and Embryos

Lisa Manning, a physicist at Syracuse University, describes how the physics of glassy materials helps to explain how some organs assume their correct shape during embryonic development.

Episode 10

19 June 2018 - Carina Curto on How Physicists Can Think About Neuroscience

Carina Curto, a mathematician at Pennsylvania State University, explains how her background in theoretical physics helps her tackle daunting problems in theoretical neuroscience.

Episode 11

02 July 2018 - Jessica Whited on Limb Regeneration and the Axolotl Genome

Jessica Whited is a biologist who studies limb regeneration at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Here, she explains how genomic information for the salamander called an axolotl will help us understand the potential for regrowing limbs in humans and other animals.

Episode 12

21 July 2018 - Cohl Furey on the Octonions and Particle Physics

Cohl Furey explains what octonions are and what they might have to do with particle physics.

Episode 13

01 August 2018 - Alessio Figalli: A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World

The mathematician Alessio Figalli is rarely in one place for very long. But his work has established the stability of everything from crystals to weather fronts by using concepts derived from Napoleonic fortifications.

Episode 14

02 August 2018 - Caucher Birkar: An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations

Birkar discusses the need for originality in mathematics and in life.

Episode 15

03 August 2018 - Akshay Venkatesh: A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time

Akshay Venkatesh on his mathematical working style, which took him many years to discover.

Episode 16

04 August 2018 - Constantinos Daskalakis: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

Constantinos Daskalakis on why he studies the interface between theoretical computer science and human behavior.

Episode 17

06 August 2018 - 2018 Fields Medal Coverage at Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh have been awarded the Fields Medal. Computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis won the Nevanlinna Prize.

Episode 18

28 August 2018 - Rosaly Lopes on Volcanoes Throughout the Solar System

Rosaly Lopes explains why it’s worth exploring the huge variety of volcanoes on other worlds.

Episode 19

11 October 2018 - Tomas Bohr on Performing the Double-Slit Experiment with Bouncing Droplets

Tomas Bohr explains the significance of the double-slit experiment in exposing the weirdness of the quantum world.

Episode 20

15 October 2018 - Renee Reijo Pera on the Importance of Timing in Embryo Development

Stem cell researcher Renee Reijo Pera of Montana State University explains how the timing of developmental events in the early embryo can subtly affect health many years later.

Episode 21

24 October 2018 - Mario Jurić on How Astronomy Is Changing

Just as mathematics transformed physics from a philosophy into a science, data and computation are transforming science today, says Mario Jurić. He’s leading the push to get astronomy ready for the torrents of data that are about to flow. Mario Jurić explains how the nature of what it means to be an astronomer is changing.

Episode 22

13 November 2018 - Valeria Pettorino on Learning About Dark Energy With the Euclid Satellite

Valeria Pettorino discusses the prospects of learning about dark energy with the Euclid satellite.

Episode 23

14 November 2018 - Albert Einstein, Holograms and Quantum Gravity

In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory.

Episode 24

27 November 2018 - Why Different Parts of a Coffee Mug Produce Different Pitches

The Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda demonstrates one of his physics “toys”: the curious higher and lower notes you hear when tapping a coffee mug with a spoon.

Episode 25

05 December 2018 - Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity

The University of Cambridge astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal and popular author discusses how our society can benefit from science while avoiding potential pitfalls.

Episode 26

20 December 2018 - What Is Emergence?

How do extraordinarily complex emergent phenomena — like ants assembling themselves into living bridges, or tiny water and air molecules forming into swirling hurricanes — spontaneously arise from systems of much simpler elements? The answer often depends on a transition in the interplay between the elements that resembles a phase change.

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