Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Keynote conversation with Christopher Nolan
Event Date: 6th November 2023
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Bulletin Annual Gathering
Keynote conversation with Christopher Nolan
November 6, 2023 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Central Time
In addition, your ticket gives you unique access to high-level conversations with world-renowned experts on a variety of topics such as:
- How black holes affect our map of the universe.
- Pandemic Potential: What have we learned from Covid?
- Why is the climate so extreme this year?
- From Oppenheimer to today’s nuclear landscape.
- Pandora? Prometheus? What to make of recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence.
With a live Keynote Conversation featuring:
Christopher Nolan
Acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan’s newest film, Oppenheimer, explores the life of physicist, “father of the atomic bomb,” and former chair of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors J. Robert Oppenheimer. Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, Nolan’s films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, and The Dark Knight trilogy, have earned more than $5 billion at the global box office and have been awarded 11 Oscars and 36 nominations, including two Best Picture nominations.
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Keynote conversation with Christopher Nolan
November 6, 2023 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Central Time
Conversations Before Midnight is less than a month away! Register today to reserve your spot at the Bulletin’s virtual annual gathering, featuring a live keynote conversation with award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director Christopher Nolan!
From Oppenheimer to today’s nuclear landscape
Keep the Oppenheimer conversation going with this “Ask Me Anything”-style discussion with top nuclear experts. This is your opportunity to consider how the history we saw represented on the big screen shapes our present, what has and hasn’t changed since then, and options available for creating a safer future. Einstein once said that “the release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking.” Let’s change that.
Speakers:
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Susan Eisenhower
Policy analyst and founder of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. -
Jon Wolfsthal
Director of Global Risk at FAS; President Obama’s senior director for arms control and disarmament -
Lesley M.M. Blume (Moderator)
Leading science journalist; author of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
J. Robert Oppenheimer is best known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” but his earliest research advanced our understanding of black holes. More than 75 years later, scientists are making enormous strides advancing this research. Join two leading black hole experts to discuss the newest findings at the forefront of science and find out what they mean about our place in the universe.
Speakers:
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Daniel Holz
Professor, University of Chicago in the Departments of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. -
Priyamvada Natarajan
Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University -
John Mecklin (Moderator)
Editor-in-chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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