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The World Science Festival: Big Ideas Series
- Project Leader(s)
Brian Greene, Department of Physics
Columbia University
Chairman, World Science Festival FoundationTracy Day
Co-Founder and CEO, World Science Festival- Grantee(s)
World Science Festival Foundation (New York, New York)
- Description
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These grants support a series of events focusing on big questions in science during the World Science Festival. The Festival aims to transform public perceptions of science, illuminate critical global issues informed by science, and enhance the public discourse around our common transcendent search for a deeper understanding of our origins and place in the universe. Event topics include big questions in cosmology, quantum physics, faith and science, human uniqueness, and the search for ultimate explanations.
- Grant Amount:
- $3,150,000
- Start Date:
- February 2008
- End Date:
- December 2012
- Grant ID:
- 13506, 14555, 15463
Suite of 3 separate grants totaling $3,150,000
- Grantee Websites
- 2012
- Madness Redefined: Creativity, Intelligence and the Dark Side of the Mind
- The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos
- Exoplanets: The Search for New Worlds
- Why We Prevailed: Evolution and the Battle for Dominance
- Spooky Action: The Drama of Quantum Mechanics
- 2011
- Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius
- Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe
- A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- The Dark Side of the Universe
- The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
- 2010
- Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking
- The Limits of Understanding
- Back to the Big Bang: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
- Faith and Science 2010
- Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World
- 2009
- Nothing: The Subtle Science of Emptiness
- What It Means to be Human: The Enigma of Altruism
- Time Since Einstein
- Yours to Decide: Fate, Free Will, Neither or Both?
- Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- 2008
- Echoes from the Beginning: A Journey through Space and Time
- Invisible Reality: The Wonderful Weirdness of the Quantum World
- Faith and Science 2008
- What It Means to Be Human
- Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation
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