SciComm Collider 2
from Wednesday, May 8, 2024 (8:00 a.m.) to Friday, May 10, 2024 (11:00 p.m.)
  • Wednesday, May 8, 2024
    9:00 a.m. Registration
    10:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
    10:30 a.m. Tour of Perimeter and Intro Activities
    11:30 a.m. Discussion: Bridging science and the humanities
    12:30 p.m. Lunch
    2:00 p.m. Panel: More inclusive scicomm
    3:00 p.m. Quantum simulations/computing - Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute)
    4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
    4:30 p.m. // Free Time
    7:00 p.m. From Hydrogen to Higgs Bosons: Particle Physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN // Public Lecture - Advance Tickets Required
  • Thursday, May 9, 2024
    10:00 a.m. Discussion: Accurate analogies and complex topics
    11:00 a.m. Panel: Book deals and book writing
    12:00 p.m. Lunch
    2:00 p.m. The Scientist and the Journalist - Colloquium (Patchen Barss)
    3:00 p.m. Break
    3:30 p.m. Discussion: Social media and video
    4:30 p.m. Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys - Jessica Muir (Perimeter Institute)
    5:30 p.m. // Free Time
    6:00 p.m. Banquet
  • Friday, May 10, 2024
    10:00 a.m. Perimeter Institute / SciComm Coffee Mixer
    11:00 a.m. Panel: Tricky topics and institutional constraints
    12:00 p.m. Black holes and gravitational waves - Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
    1:00 p.m. Lunch
    2:00 p.m. Perspectives on Communicating Physics to the Public - Colloquium (Matt Strassler / Tatiana Erukhimova)
    3:00 p.m. Break
    3:30 p.m. Discussion 4 - TBD
    4:30 p.m. SciComm Wrap Up