SciVibes: Chatting With Global Scientists brings you casual conversations with global scientists, fascinating chats that happen at coffee breaks and in the corridors with some of the thousands of scientists that visit ICTP every year.
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Kelsey and Anna talk with Randa Al-Obayyat, a university student from Palestine visiting ICTP's FabLab with colleagues from Science for People, a science outreach group in the West Bank that hopes to open their own FabLab soon.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Quantum computation pioneer David Deutsch of the University of Oxford is working on something new: constructor theory. A new way to describe and understand the underlying principles of physics, he hopes it will be a fundamental theory of how we understand the world.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Episode 8: From Molecular Motion to Quantum Computation
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Quantum computing is a long way from molecular motion studies... or maybe not. We talk with Charles H. Bennett about how his PhD and experiences early in his scientific career inadvertently prepared him to be a quantum computing pioneer.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Anna and Kelsey talk to Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne about his long history of doing outreach and science communication, including projects on paintings, movies, and music.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Episode 6: What It's Like to Win a Nobel With Kip Thorne
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Kelsey and Anna asked Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne the question that nearly every scientist daydreams about: what is it like to win a Nobel Prize? Thorne shares his experience and his thoughts on the 2017 win, honoring work on the LIGO collaboration.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Anna and Kelsey got to ask Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne about a new type of project he's working on: making movies based on science, including the 2014 film Interstellar.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Kelsey and Anna got a chance to sit down with Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne while he was at ICTP: this episode features his remarks on the LIGO collaboration and gravitational waves.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Anna talks with Federico Bernardini, of ICTP's Multidisciplinary Laboratory, about ancient Rome's land use planning and the search for old Roman roads across the Carso surrounding Trieste, using some of the great tools in the MLab.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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SciVibes dives in and has coffee with Professor Valérie Masson-Delmotte, chatting about her paleoclimate research, the process of writing her books, and the goals of the IPCC meeting that brought her to Trieste.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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SciVibes and hosts Kelsey and Anna bring you casual conversations with global scientists, fascinating casual chats that happen at coffee breaks and in the corridors.By International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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