with Ed Boyden, Wolfgang Ketterle and Avi Loeb, moderated by Gary Van Zante
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Join the German Consulate Boston for a conversation between internationally acclaimed portrait photographer Herlinde Koelbl and renowned scientists Wolfgang Ketterle, Ed Boyden and Avi Loeb about her exhibition “The Fascination of Science”. MIT Museum curator Gary Van Zante will moderate the discussion about the intersection of art and science.
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Herline Koelbl is a german visual artists. She has published more than 20 books and several documentary films. She has been awarded numerous prizes. 2009 her first large retrospective was shown at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin.
Prof. Ed Boyden completed his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Master of Engineering at MIT and completed his PhD studies as a fellow in the Neurosciences Program at Stanford University. Prof. Boyden joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in 2007, and is now a Professor in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, and an HHMI investigator.
Nobel Prize winning physicist,
Wolfgang Ketterle has been the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT since 1998. He received a diploma from the Technical University of Munich, and the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich. Since 2006, he is the director of the Center of Ultracold Atoms, an NSF funded research center, and Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics. His research group studies properties of ultracold atomic matter.
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24. He has written 8 books, and nearly a thousand papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe.
Loeb had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021).
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