Janna Levin

Janna Levin

Biography:

Janna Levin is a brilliant and quirky cosmologist. Unlike the majority of her contemporaries, she believes that the universe is finite and this claim has led to a great deal of controversy within the scientific community.

She is currently a Research Fellow in Astrophysics at Oxford and was recently an Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked previously at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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  • Physics and Cosmology

    Art spoke with Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Janna Levin, about a variety of physics- and cosmology-related topics, including the evolution of the universe, its accelerating expansion and possible end in a fatal contraction.More »
  • A Finite Universe

    Cosmologist Janna Levin, the author of How the Universe Got its Spots, joined Barbara on Saturday night to put forth her controversial concept that the universe is finite.More »

Last Night

Alternative Fuel & EVs / Otherworldly Communications
Alternative Fuel & EVs / Otherworldly Communications
Ecological biologist David Blume reported on biofuels and problems with electric vehicles. Followed by author and filmmaker Rich Martini on otherworldly communications.

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