The Starmus Festival “is a feast for the brain, body and spirit, and an opportunity to share with people what we know about the cosmos,” said today Jill Tarter, the American astrophysicist founder of the Center SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Tarter, probably one of the scientific best known in the United States, will be one of the speakers at the third edition of this popular festival held in Tenerife and La Palma (Spanish archipelago Canary Islands) and that combines music, art, science and communication.
The event, which was presented today in Madrid, will be held from June 27 to July 2; four intense days in which scientists from around the world speak of extraterrestrial life, climate change, artificial intelligence, cyber security or the consequences of unequal current economic growth.
Among the speakers there are eleven Nobel laureates as Robert Wilson and David Gross, Adam Riess, Brian Schmidt and François Englert (Physics), Eric Betzig (Chemistry), biologists Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn, and marriage Edvard and May-Britt Moser (Medicine), and Joseph Stiglitz (Economics).
But in addition, the festival will bring together some of the best known astrophysicists the world as Neil deGrasse (among other things, creator of the new series of popular science ‘Cosmos’).
The space race will have its own space and will be assisted by Jill Tarter, one of the leading experts in the world on the search for extraterrestrial life and legends of star travel Michael Lopez-Alegria, Garrett Reisman, Claude Nicollier and Rusty Schweickart, last lunar module pilot on the Apollo 9 mission and Sergey Volkov Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko and Alexei Leonov.
For the creator and director of Starmus, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), Garik Israelian, “it is surprising that people come back every year, so something will have the festival because you can fool one or two but eleven nobel prizes or make many repeat next year. ”
One of the great innovations of this edition will be delivering the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, a prize to be awarded to three people -elegidas by the British-physical by its work of popular science in the disciplines of Science, Art and Film.
And as in the previous edition, one of the highlights of the festival will be “Ask Hawking” a unique opportunity for the audience raised their doubts scientist.
As for the performers, Starmus will be assisted by Sarah Brightman, soprano and actress, acting by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in a show that will be accompanied by images universe; Brian May, exguitarrista of ‘Queen’, and Rick Wakeman, the band ‘Yes’.
Hanz Zimmer (who won an Oscar and nominated ten times), with Paul Franklin (two Oscar) and astrophysicist Kip Thorne offer “Warped side of the Universe,” a show that will combine images of the universe with special effects that will feel the sensations that produce gravitational waves, black holes or supernovae.
In addition, Brian Eno released a musical composition based on the sounds of the stars, and Chris Hadfield and Rick Wakeman pay tribute to David Bowie performing his legendary songs “Space Oddity” or “Life on Mars “.
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