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Season 2015 (2015)

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Episodes:

• Ep. 1: What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole? (2015-06-10)

  David Kaplan explores one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the apparent contradiction between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

• Ep. 2: Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D. (2015-06-11)

  A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs and his controversial views on climate change.

• Ep. 3: Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos (2015-06-12)

  A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.

• Ep. 4: Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist (2015-06-15)

  A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Manjul Bhargava, whose search for artistic truth and beauty has led to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory.

• Ep. 5: Where Did the Universe Come From? (2015-06-16)

  Where did the universe come from? David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation with the help of a baking metaphor.

• Ep. 6: Yitang Zhang: An Unlikely Math Star Rises (2015-06-17)

  The opening scene from George Csicsery’s film "Counting From Infinity," about Yitang Zhang, a previously unknown mathematician who two years ago solved a major problem in number theory that catapulted him to mathematical stardom.

• Ep. 7: Martin Hairer: In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music (2015-06-19)

  A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer, whose epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis, experts say, “created a whole world.”

• Ep. 8: Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces (2015-06-23)

  A video profile of the 2014 Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, whose monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.

• Ep. 9: Subhash Khot: A Grand Vision for the Impossible (2015-06-24)

  A video profile of the 2014 Nevanlinna Prize winner Subhash Khot, whose bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.

• Ep. 10: Alan Guth: How Many Two-Headed Cows in a Multiverse? (2015-07-02)

  In an infinitely branching multiverse, says MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, “there are an infinite number of one-headed cows and an infinite number of two-headed cows. What happens to the ratio?”

• Ep. 11: Hiranya Peiris: How to Test If We Live in a Multiverse (2015-07-09)

  University College London physicist Hiranya Peiris explains the seemingly impossible -- how the multiverse can be experimentally tested.

• Ep. 12: How Did Life Begin on Earth? (2022-07-20)

  In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading theories for the origin of life on our planet.

• Ep. 13: Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies (2015-07-21)

  Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.

• Ep. 14: Why Do Flies Walk This Way? (2015-07-22)

  In a device in Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University, a fly wanders through a tiny Y-shaped maze, choosing at the Y’s vertex whether to walk left or right. This array of Y-mazes allows researchers to track individual behavior in many flies simultaneously.

• Ep. 15: How Symmetry Shapes Nature’s Laws (2015-08-17)

  In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.

• Ep. 16: James Bullock: The Case for Complex Dark Matter (2015-08-25)

  James Bullock, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.

• Ep. 17: Nancy Moran: An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships (2015-09-18)

  Nancy Moran, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.

• Ep. 18: Nima Arkani-Hamed's Visions of Future Physics (2015-09-23)

  Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, makes his "big-picture" case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.

• Ep. 19: What Is a Species? (2015-09-24)

  David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of 'species' is hard to come by in our fifth In Theory video.

• Ep. 20: Gabriela González: Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity (2015-10-23)

  Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.

• Ep. 21: Joan Strassmann: The Woman Who Stared at Wasps (2015-11-06)

  Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.

• Ep. 22: Christoph Adami: The Information Theory of Life (2015-11-20)

  Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.

• Ep. 23: Richard Dawid: Why Trust a Theory? (2015-12-18)

  Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.

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