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In the Beginning There Was a Big Bang Public Lecture
Canadian Institute or Theoretical Astrophysics
Janna Levin will take a tour through time from the beginning in a big bang, through black holes, past the emergence of life on at least one little planet spinning in a conceivably infinite cosmic ocean, to the possible end of time.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:30 PM
Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1160, 40 St. George Street, University of Toronto
Admission: Free
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How Did the Universe Get Its Spots?
Performance artist Laurie Anderson + astrophysicist Janna Levin
The first (and only) artist-in-residence at NASA engages in a free-form conversation with the novelist and professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College. Levin teases apart the implications of black holes and the early conditions the universe; her first novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers.
Date & Time: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 6:00 PM
Location: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011
Price: $25
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