Free Online Live Zoom Webinar
For Immediate Release - July 20, 2021
Contact: [email protected]
Webinar Links: UPDATED 8/3/21
MST / Arizona
Aug 3-6, 2021
9:00 am - 12:30 pm - daily - MST-Arizona
4 sessions - 20 speakers
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SCIENCE & ROGER PENROSE
On the occasion of his 90th Birthday and Nobel Prize
August 3-6, 2021 - Free Online Live Zoom Webinar
9:00 am – 12:30 pm PST / AZ - 20 Speakers
British physicist Sir Roger Penrose is widely acclaimed for fundamental advances in understanding the universe. He shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for having shown that black holes are predictions of Einstein’s general relativity. Roger has also proposed a solution to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics (‘objective reduction’, ‘OR’) which, he further suggests, is the origin of consciousness, leading to a theory of brain function (’orchestrated objective reduction’, “Orch OR’). And Roger’s concept of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (‘CCC’) posits a serial, eternal universe, with the Big Bang preceded by previous aeons. The online conference will cover these 4 major inter-related areas of Roger’s work.
4 Sessions with colleagues and associated scientists
- Black Holes
- Quantum Measurement – Objective Reduction (OR)
- Consciousness – Orch OR / Panel: Quantum Biology of Microtubules
- A Pre-Big Bang Universe – Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
Day 1 – Tuesday - August 3, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm PST/AZ
OVERVIEW
Session Chair
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate
Oxford University
Consciousness, Quantum State Reduction, Black Holes, and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology— Connecting Threads
BLACK HOLES
Session Chair
Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Oxford University
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Reinhard Genzel, Nobel Laureate
Max Planck Institute/UC Berkeley
A 40-Year Journey
11:15 am – 12:00 noon
Roger Blandford
Stanford University
Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?:
The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources
12:00 noon – 12:30 pm
Discussion
Day 2 – Wednesday - August 4, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm PST/AZ
QUANTUM MEASUREMENT – OBJECTIVE REDUCTION (OR)
Session Chair
Roger Blandford, Stanford University
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Ivette Fuentes-Guridi
University of Southampton
Exploring the unification of quantum theory and general relativity with a Bose-Einstein condensate”
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Hendrik Ulbricht
University of Southampton
Probing new physics by levitated mechanical systems
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Dirk Bouwmeester
UC Santa Barbara | Leiden University, NL
An experimental investigation of the reduction of the quantum wavefunction
11:15 am – 12:00 noon
Philip C.E. Stamp
University of British Columbia
The correlated worldline (CWL) theory of quantum gravity
12:00 noon – 12:30 pm
Discussion
Day 3 – Thursday - August 5, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm PST/AZ
CONSCIOUSNESS – ORCH OR
Session Chair
Justin Riddle, University of North Carolina
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
The Orch OR theory of consciousness
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Greg Scholes, Princeton University
Biological quantum phenomena and the brain
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Alysson Muotri, UC San Diego
Complex neural networks spontaneously emerge from human brain organoids
PANEL – QUANTUM BIOLOGY OF MICROTUBULES
11:15 am - 11:25 am - Opening Remarks
Jack Tuszyński, University of Alberta - Panel Chair
11:25 am -11:35 am
Aarat Kalra, Princeton University
Light at the end of the tunnel: Optical signaling through microtubules
11:35 am – 11:45 am
Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern University
Fano resonances in the resonance Raman spectra of tubulin and microtubules reveals active quantum effects
11:45 am – 11:55 am
Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida
Experimental and computational insights into the remarkable electromagnetic properties of microtubules
11:55 am – 12:05 pm
Bruce MacIver, Stanford University
Probing consciousness with anesthetics
12:05 pm – 12:15 pm
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Material Sciences, Japan
Triplet of triplet fractal resonance band of tubulin, microtubule
and neuron membrane: Quantum optics & microwave study
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
Discussion
Day 4 – Friday - August 6, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm PST/AZ
A PRE-BIG BANG UNIVERSE: CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY
Session Chair
Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate
Oxford University
9:00 am – 9:45 am
Paul Tod, Oxford University
The mathematics behind Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
9:45 am – 10:30 am
Brian Keating, UC San Diego
Was there a Big Bang?
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Krzysztof Meissner, University of Warsaw, Poland
Black Holes and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
11:15 am – 12:00 noon
Vahe Gurzadyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia
Cosmological Constant, CCC, observations
12:00 noon – 12:30 pm
Discussion
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