Physics movie week

A recent trend in physics has been trying to reach out to the general public. There are many resources nowadays to do so, but perhaps the ones that have the largest impact are TV shows and films. Good examples are "The Big Bang Theory" (the life of a group of three graduate physics students and an engineer in Caltech) and the "Elegant Universe" by Brian Green.

Following this direction, the movie industry, which releases movies for the Oscars around November, has made a big bet this year. Not only "Interstellar" - a movie about wormholes and black holes written by Kip Thorne - (click here to watch the trailer) will be released on the 5th of November, but also "The theory of everything" - a movie about the life of Stephen Hawking - (click here to watch the trailer) will also be released on the 7th of November 2014. So save the dates on your calendars! By the way, it's already been busy around Harvard discussing films and physics: earlier this week, "Particle Fever" was screened as part of the festivities commemorating the '60 years of CERN @ Harvard'.

On a separate topic, it was Dan Xie's turn this week at the strings Journal Club and he talked about "Coupling a QFT to a TQFT and Duality by Seiberg et al.