{"id":2945,"date":"2009-10-13T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2009-10-13T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:06:39","slug":"quantum-to-cosmos-and-a-tiny-bit-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/quantum-to-cosmos-and-a-tiny-bit-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum to Cosmos, and a Tiny Bit Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking off to the Great White North this week, for a couple of fun events.  First it&#8217;s to the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, which is hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/\">Quantum to Cosmos Festival<\/a>.  It&#8217;s ten days of fun and big ideas, and best of all it will all be recorded and streamed live.  Check out the program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/program\">here<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll be participating in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/program&amp;lecture_id=7976\">panel discussion on big ideas<\/a> Thursday night, and giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/program&amp;lecture_id=7731\">popular talk on the arrow of time<\/a> Saturday night.  But there&#8217;s also a promising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/program&amp;lecture_id=7725\">panel discussion on cosmology<\/a> on Sunday (moderated by my favorite science writer), as well as interesting-looking talks by people like Peter Diamandis, Jim Gates, Neil Gershenfeld, Cory Doctorow, and even the other Sean Carroll.  Plenty of fun to go around.<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s off to the Francophone sector with me, where I&#8217;ll be visiting McGill University in Montreal to give another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.mcgill.ca\/seminars\/PSC_carroll.html\">public talk<\/a> on Monday night.  I don&#8217;t know of any recordings there, but the talk won&#8217;t be that different from Saturday&#8217;s.  But if there are any CV readers in Montreal, be sure to say hi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking off to the Great White North this week, for a couple of fun events. First it&#8217;s to the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, which is hosting the Quantum to Cosmos Festival. It&#8217;s ten days of fun and big ideas, and best of all it will all be recorded and streamed live. Check out the program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}