The Starmus Competition is in Bratislava, Slovakia, Might 12–17.
We’re now on the cusp of the seventh Starmus Competition, a tremendous and distinctive celebration of science and music. I hope to see a lot of you there, in Bratislava, Slovakia, Might 12–17.
Starmus, which mixes the phrases stars and music, is the creation of Director Garik Israelian, an astronomer within the Canary Islands who’s an professional on black holes, exoplanets, and plenty of different topics. He created the Competition, which first appeared in 2011, in conjunction along with his good friend Brian May, an astrophysicist who additionally occurs to have a fairly good day job as founder and guitarist of the rock band Queen.
This yr’s theme is our personal planet Earth and the way we are going to deal with it. I’ll be proud to as soon as once more be a speaker at Starmus, will function an on-stage host, and can take part in actions as a member of the Starmus Board together with Garik, Brian, Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Peter Gabriel, Jill Tarter, and Tony Fadell.
Starmus affords a novel mix of fantastic audio system, live shows, a star celebration, and an astrophoto college, and can kick off with an unbelievable live performance within the metropolis of Bratislava, which is a brief hop from Vienna, Austria. Our good good friend Jean-Michel Jarre, the digital musician well-known for staging the world’s largest live performance, will grace us with a tremendous present, in conjunction with Brian Might. That can kick issues off, after which we are going to begin an unbelievable lineup of audio system. The lineup might be rife with astronaut-explorers and Nobel Prize laureates.
Presenters will embody anthropologist Jane Goodall, astrophysicist Martin Rees, physicist Kip Thorne, musician Laurie Anderson, local weather scientist Katharine Hayhoe, iPod inventor Tony Fadell, physicist Brian Greene, astrophysicist Michel Mayor, astronaut Chris Hadfield, astrophysicist Scott Hubbard, astrophysicist George Smoot, astronaut Garrett Reisman, laptop scientist Bernhard Schölkopf, astrophysicist Carole Mundell, local weather scientist Chris Rapley, astrophysicist Joel Parker, planetary scientist Patrick Michel, and planetary scientist Dante Lauretta.
Among the many musical stars might be — along with Jean-Michel and Brian — Robin Ince, The Offspring, Tony Hadley, Laurie Anderson, Derek Sherinian, Lia Holloran, Simon Phillips, Nemra, Brian Malow, and Paul Franklin.
Our sponsors this yr are ESET, a worldwide safety firm, together with Vub Banka, Omega watches, and Kia.
My friends Michael Bakich, Martin Ratcliffe, and Damian Peach are going to placed on an astroimaging college earlier than the primary Starmus. And we are going to maintain a star celebration for Starmus people at Devín Fort, which was constructed within the 9th Century. It’s a spectacular web site for a star celebration!
I strongly encourage you to attend in case you can. There actually are moments at Starmus the place you assume to your self, “Is that this actually taking place???” If you don’t make it this time, attending to Starmus will assuredly be in your future plans. I’ll present full reporting on the Competition as Astronomy Journal can be a sponsoring accomplice.
You could find out full info on Starmus at starmus.com, register, and prepare to attend an occasion that may change your life.
David J. Eicher is Editor of Astronomy Journal, creator of 26 books on science and historical past, and a member of the board of the Starmus Fetsival and of Lowell Observatory.
