Reality Is Not As It Seems

Roger Antonsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics in the research group Logic and Intelligent Data (LogID) at the University of Oslo, and is also currently a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, California. He is a logician, mathematician, computer scientist, researcher, author, lecturer, and public speaker who specializes in logical calculi, proof theory, mathematical logic, complexity theory, ... Read More

S. James Gates Jr. is the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics at Brown University. He was previously at the University of Maryland for several decades, where he was named a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, and John S. Toll Professor of Physics. Professor Gates is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. ... Read More

Suzanne O’Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She studied medicine at Trinity College in Dublin and trained in neurology and clinical neurophysiology. .... Read More

Margaret Wertheim is a science writer, curator, and artist whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. She is the author of six books including Pythagoras' Trousers, a history of physics and religion; The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace, a history of scientific concepts of space; and Physics on the Fringe, a ground-breaking exploration of outsider science. .... Read More

Barbara J. Grosz is the Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. From 2007-2011 Grosz served as interim dean and then dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and from 2001-2007 she was the Institute’s first dean of science, designing and building its science program. She currently serves on the Science Board and Science Steering Committee at the Santa Fe Institute. .... Read More

Donald D. Hoffman is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. He received his BA from UCLA in Quantitative Psychology and his Ph.D. from MIT in Computational Psychology. He received the Distinguished ... Read More