SciComm Collider 2

May 8, 2024, 8:00 a.m. → May 10, 2024, 11:00 p.m. America/Toronto

PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

The second annual SciComm Collider workshop will bring together a group of the most innovative science communicators helping to connect the public with topics in physics and astronomy for a three-day workshop aimed at sharing ideas, creating new collaborations, and exploring ways to more effectively engage the public with the most exciting ideas in science. The workshop will consist of short seminars, interactive sessions, and opportunities to brainstorm new ideas with fellow communicators and creators, as well as venues for interaction between invited science communicators and Perimeter outreach/communications team members and researchers.

Wednesday, May 8

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

1 Quantum simulations/computing

Speaker: 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

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

2 Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys

Speaker: Jessica Muir (Perimeter Institute)

5:30 p.m. // Free Time

6:00 p.m. Banquet

Friday, May 10

10:00 a.m. Perimeter Institute / SciComm Coffee Mixer

Open to all PI Residents

11:00 a.m. Panel: Tricky topics and institutional constraints

3 Black holes and gravitational waves

Speaker: 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