SciVibes International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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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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Episode 10: A FabLab in Palestine
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.
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Episode 9: Glints on the Horizon
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.
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Episode 8: From Molecular Motion to Quantum Computation
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.
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Episode 7: Serious SciComm with Kip Thorne
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.
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Episode 6: What It's Like to Win a Nobel With Kip Thorne
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.
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Episode 5: Making Movies with Kip Thorne
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.