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Jahar Aabye · 11-06-2008, 09:49 PM

Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation.

He will be giving a talk in SecondLife on Saturday, Nov 8th at 10am SL time.

For more information, see his blog post here:

Talk in Second Life | Cosmic Variance

And here is the SLURL:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spacepor...avo/115/65/278

Thought this might interest a few people here. If you go, please be respectful and expect a decent number of SL newbies from the scientific community.

Jahar Aabye · 11-06-2008, 09:50 PM

For those of you who don't know, Prospero Linden was a former Astronomy professor, which is part of how this got set up.

Edav Nomad · 11-06-2008, 11:52 PM

Damn I gotta work that day.

Quantum Destiny · 11-07-2008, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jahar Aabye

For those of you who don't know, Prospero Linden was a former Astronomy professor, which is part of how this got set up.

He makes a presentation every month - in his last presentation I think he mentioned that he was changing that to bimonthly. For more info, check out:

Seminar: “Galaxies in Collision” | SciLands Virtual Continent

Also, Nature often host presentations in SL (which I also go to!), check out the following url for more info:

Home : Elucian Islands

I won't be at tomorrow's event, as I am going to a guy fawkes event!

Quantum Destiny · 11-07-2008, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quantum Destiny

He makes a presentation every month - in his last presentation I think he mentioned that he was changing that to bimonthly. For more info, check out:

Seminar: “Galaxies in Collision” | SciLands Virtual Continent

I should add that Dr Knop's presentations are pretty much entry level, and so are ideal for those who have studied very little or nothing of the subject. Those who have studied Physics/Astronomy may find it a little slow going, but it's still worth going to meet up with people who have similar interests.

Jahar Aabye · 11-07-2008, 06:23 PM

Ooooh, the Nature stuff sounds especially interesting. Didn't know that the foremost scientific journal in the world had an SL presence.

I definitely need to get out of the combat sims more.

11-06-2008, 09:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jahar Aabye Account Closed Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,137	CalTech Physics/Cosmology Professor to give talk in SecondLife Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He will be giving a talk in SecondLife on Saturday, Nov 8th at 10am SL time. For more information, see his blog post here: Talk in Second Life \| Cosmic Variance And here is the SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spacepor...avo/115/65/278 Thought this might interest a few people here. If you go, please be respectful and expect a decent number of SL newbies from the scientific community.

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11-06-2008, 09:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jahar Aabye Account Closed Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,137	For those of you who don't know, Prospero Linden was a former Astronomy professor, which is part of how this got set up.

11-07-2008, 06:23 PM	#6 (permalink)
Jahar Aabye Account Closed Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,137	Ooooh, the Nature stuff sounds especially interesting. Didn't know that the foremost scientific journal in the world had an SL presence. I definitely need to get out of the combat sims more.