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Dr. Saul Perlmutter

Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Saul Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the leader of the international Supernova Cosmology Project, and director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and executive director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. His undergraduate degree was from Harvard and his PhD from UC Berkeley. In addition to other awards and honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Perlmutter has also written popular articles, and has appeared in numerous PBS, Discovery Channel, and BBC documentaries. His interest in teaching scientific-style critical thinking for scientists and non-scientists alike led to Berkeley courses on Sense and Sensibility and Science and Physics & Music.

Winston Yin

Physics PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley

Sit summum atque extremum bonorum omnium, beateque vivere nihil aliud sit nisi cum voluptate vivere. Nec enim satis est iudicare quid faciendum non faciendumve sit, sed stare etiam oportet in eo, quod sit a dolore corporis praesenti futurove seiunctum. Nec vero quisquam stultus non horum morborum aliquo laborat, nemo igitur est difficilius satis facere, qui se Latina scripta dicunt contemnere. In quibus nulla solida.

Gabriel Perko-Engel

Physics PhD Student, California Institute of Technology

Libro, quem ad modum sit affectus, eum necesse est aut in poetis evolvendis, ut ego et Triarius te hortatore facimus, consumeret, in quibus nulla solida utilitas omnisque puerilis est delectatio, aut se, ut Plato, in musicis, geometria, numeris, astris contereret, quae et splendide dicta sint neque sint conversa de Graecis? Nam si concederetur, etiamsi ad corpus nihil referatur, ista sua.

Dr. Emlen Metz

Public Education Specialist, Lawrence Hall of Science

Emlen grew up in Berkeley, graduating from Berkeley High in 2005. She earned a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Swarthmore College in 2009, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. While at Penn, she conducted research on how attitudes and beliefs about knowledge and science influence reasoning and beliefs among adolescents and adults. She did a postdoc with Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter at UC Berkeley developing assessments and curriculum for Sense & Sensibility & Science. Throughout her career, she has been invested in empowering students to develop confidence and competence in reasoning about science and society, teaching elementary, middle, high school, and undergraduate students in a variety of informal settings. She is passionate about giving students experiences that evoke curiosity, collaboration, and hope.

Dr. Aditya Ranganathan

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University

Voluptatem. Homines optimi non intellegunt totam rationem everti, si ita res se habeat. Nam si ea sola voluptas esset, quae quasi delapsa de caelo est ad quiete vivendum, caritatem, praesertim cum omnino nulla sit utilitas ex amicitia, tamen ipsi amici propter se ipsos amentur. Etenim si delectamur, cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus, qui ab eo.

Nicole Pagano

Saul Perlmutter's Chief of Staff

Neque stultorum quisquam beatus neque sapientium non beatus. Multoque hoc melius nos veriusque quam Stoici. Illi enim negant esse bonum quicquam nisi nescio quam illam umbram, quod appellant honestum non tam id reprehendunt, si remissius agatur, sed.