BEYOND EINSTEIN : World Wide Webcast
Live Webcast from around the globe
Thursday December 1st, 2005 from 11:00 to 23:00 GMT
http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein

To celebrate Einstein Year (World Year of Physics), some of the
world"s leading  physics laboratories are taking part in a 12 hour
webcast to show public audiences the excitement of Einstein"s life,
science and legacy. The programme will be broadcast from locations
including CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory and birthplace
of the World Wide Web, on December 1st 2005. Audience members will be
able to submit questions during discussions with Nobel prize winners,
internet pioneers and famous scientists such as Stephen Hawking.
Students age 15-19 will be able to participate in an online quiz.

Dave Colling of Imperial College, London, who is co-ordinating UK
participation through the GridPP project said “Einstein was a
fascinating person and his incredible work has touched the lives of
everyone, whether they realise it or not. In this celebration we aim to
share the excitement and the mystery of his work and the challenges it
has produced for modern-day scientist."

In addition to CERN, participating institutions include: Imperial
College London, the Telecom Future Lab (Venice), the Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago), the Exploratorium (San Francisco)
hosting scientists from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the
Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem) and the National Science
Education
Centre (Taipei).

From the seven main platforms, internauts will be taken on a world tour
to other physics laboratories and science museums visiting virtually
all
the time zones of the planet, from Europe to America, from Asia to
Tasmania and as far south as Antarctica, thanks to the latest Tandberg
videoconferencing technology.

The programme includes subjects such as relativity, gravitational
waves, mass and gravity, antimatter, and neutrinos, along with the
mysteries left open by Einstein"s physics and the technologies derived
from it. A global audience will be able to discuss the impact of
Einstein" s discoveries and look beyond them with top level physicists
such as Stephen Hawking and Paul Davies, and with physics Nobel
laureates David Gross, Murray Gell-Mann and Gerard ‘t Hooft, connected
from the 2005 Solvay physics Conference in Brussels (17:10 CET).

From Imperial College London, Peter Kirstein will be joined by fellow
Internet pioneer Bob Kahn, and Robert Cailliau who played a key role at
he birth of the Web to explore the role that basic science plays in the
evolution of information technology. Nobel laureate Leon Lederman will
host a show live from Fermilab, featuring interviews with young
physicists, fun physics demonstrations, as well as live music (20:30
CET). Other highlights include the award ceremony of the Pirelli
Relativity Challenge from the Telecom Future Labs in Venice (15:30
CET),
and an online quiz for 15 to 19 year-olds. Based on the top three
mysteries stemming from Einstein"s theories, this competition will
offer Apple iBook and Apple iPods prizes to the winners.

As well as looking at the birth of the Internet and the web, the UK
section of the webcast will bring together scientists working on the
Grid, the next generation of the Internet. Physicists are leading the
way in developing the Grid, which harnesses computing resources
worldwide to allow scientists to analyse massive amounts of data. This
section is supported by GridPP, who are building the UK Grid for
particle physics.

Major technology providers are supporting CERN in this unprecedented
event . TANDBERG, a global leader in video communication will be
responsible for the connection of the seven locations by
videoconference.  At Beyond Einstein, a multipoint-videoconferencing
system will be in use, which means that each of the seven participating
institutions will always be able to see the six other partners on
screen.
TELECOM ITALIA is providing global webcast streaming, the INFN (Italian
Institute for Nuclear Physics) Multimedia Service is providing webcast
encoding.  Cisco Systems, a leader in networking for the Internet, has
joined the World Year of Physics International Steering Committee, the
European Physical Society and the European Science Centre Network,
ECSITE, in supporting the science laboratories with their respective
expertise and in assembling a compelling programme.

Notes for Editors

WATCH THE LIVE WEBCASTS and take part in the Online Quiz
Thursday December 1
12:00 to 24:00 CET / 11.00 to 23.00 GMT
http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein
The full programme can be viewed at
http://beyond-einstein.web.cern.ch/beyond-einstein/pages/programmes.html

The BEYOND EINSTEIN partners will be available to answer the press and
media at a dedicated preview web event on

Monday Nov 28 at 11:00 (GMT)
Join from
http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein/press
The Beyond Einstein partners will be available to answer the press and
media questions at a dedicated preview event on the Web on Monday 28
November at noon CET. Join from http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein/press

For more information on the webcast contact:
General information: paola.catapano@cern.ch tel. +41 76 487 36 17
Technical information: silvano.de.gennaro@cern.ch tel. +41 76 487 41
38

Journalists wishing to join the web press event on November 28 should
contact: neil.calder@SLAC.Stanford.EDU

Journalists wishing to join the event in the CERN Globe of Science and
Innovation in Geneva on December 1 should contact:
Renilde.Vanden.Broeck@cern.ch

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 26th, 2006 at and is filed under Uncategorized, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.