Description:

Speaker: Matt O’Dowd & Bahar Gholipour
Day & Time: Wednesday, 5:00pm

Overview: This talk explores what physics and neuroscience tell us about the nature of the observer and how we construct models of the world.

Bio: Bahar is a health, science and tech journalist with a background in computer engineering and neuroscience. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC, WIRED, and many other publications. Matt is an Australian astrophysicist. He is an associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the Lehman College of the City University of New York and writer and host of PBS Space Time on YouTube.