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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding our Universe

Jeff Forshaw, Professor of Physics at University of Manchester UK
With musical guests “The Black Hole Trio” : Mark Adam (Drums), Nicholas D’Amato (Bass), Nicola Miller (Saxophone)

Join professor and author Jeff Forshaw and The Black Hole Trio as they explore the Cosmos. Black holes are fascinating objects because of the way they force us to address the biggest questions in physics, such as the essential nature of space and time. They are formed when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. Their gravity is so strong that light cannot escape from them. Jeff Forshaw will introduce black holes and go on to examine the consequences of trying to track the flow of information into and out of a black hole. Recent insights indicate that space and time are emergent features related to key concepts including “quantum entanglement”, and in a fashion that bears some resemblance to “quantum error correcting codes”, such as are needed to make stable quantum computers.

Jeff Forshaw is professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and four popular science books, written together with Professor Brian Cox. The most recent of these, published in 2022, is Black Holes, the Key to Understanding the Universe. He won the 1999 Maxwell Medal for contributions to theoretical physics and the 2013 Kelvin Medal for contributions to the public understanding of science.

Mark Adam is a drummer and percussionist who performs, produces/records, composes and teaches from his home base in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He is an Associate Professor of Improvisation, Percussion and Contemporary Music at Acadia University where he has taught since 2004 and enjoys a wide and varied career in music.

Nicholas D’Amato is a bassist and full-time Instructor in Acadia’s School of Music. Prior to relocating to Nova Scotia in 2011, Nicholas spent nearly twenty years in New York City playing clubs, concert halls, broadway, record dates, jingle houses, television shows, radio broadcasts, the circus, and famous NYC venues like Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, Birdland, The 55 Bar, and The Jazz Standard. He has performed in more than 40 countries, playing many of the world’s biggest festivals and stages, including The Hollywood Bowl, Montreux Jazz, North Sea Jazz, Jazz in Marciac, Monterey Jazz, Newport Jazz, Montreal Jazz, Koerner Hall, Glenn Gould Studio, and appeared on The Tonight Show, The Today Show, and many TV broadcasts around the world.

Nicola Miller is an experimental saxophone player, composer, and teacher based on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Her strange tender playing stretches toward the avant-garde while maintaining a foot in the lyrical and the mysterious. She has studied with saxophonist/composer Frank Gratkowski (a mainstay of the European improvised music scene) New York based experimental composer Kirk Nurock and Grammy Nominated composer and drummer John Hollenbeck. She has played alongside many great artists, including Nicole Rampersaud, Charlotte Hüg, Nick Fraser, Doug Tielli, JOYFULTALK, and Glenn Patscha. She holds a Master's Degree in Composition from UdK's Jazz Institüt Berlin and has performed in the Berlin improvised music and jazz communities.

This is the final event of the series "Acadia in the Stars", running September 13-19, 2024.
https://physics.acadiau.ca/acadia-in-the-stars.html

Pricing: Free

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