Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! (#093)

Janna is back to discuss her wonderful new book, BLACK HOLE
SURVIVAL GUIDE https://amzn.to/2IlbpKS Keep your distance and enjoy
the ride! Please subscribe
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want to engage with Janna! Several Topics are on the menu on our
voyage, including: 1. Black Hole basics 2. Stephen Hawking and
Roger Penrose 3. Are singularities real? 4. What is your favorite
BH? 5. Black Hole Batteries! Janna Levin is the Claire Tow
Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Barnard College. She earned
a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1993, and a Bachelor of Science in astronomy and
physics with a concentration in philosophy at Barnard College in
1988, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Much of her work deals
with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe
might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology.
Other work includes black holes and chaos theory. She joined the
faculty at Barnard College in January 2004 and is currently the
recipient Tow Professor grant. She is also the Chair and Director
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