A creative team including SCENE, Improbable, and the English National Opera, is staging Philip Glass' seminal opera Einstein on the Beach. It will premiere at Aviva Studios, Home of Factory International Manchester with English National Opera in 2027, then come to New York City's Park Avenue Armory. Neil Gershenfeld has assembled a "skills team" of notable scientists to work with them, with a goal of making Einstein's science legible through art. This workshop is being hosted by MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms to bring these groups together, and kick off the collaboration.

Science

• David Kaiser
  • https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www
• George Dyson*
  • https://www.ted.com/speakers/george_dyson
• Jim Gates
  • https://sjgatesjr.umd.edu
• John Mather*
  • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/mather/facts/
• Lisa Randall
  • https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall
• Melissa Franklin
  • https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/franklin
• Neil Gershenfeld
  • https://ng.cba.mit.edu/
• Phil Bucksbaum*
  • https://profiles.stanford.edu/philip-bucksbaum
• Rainer Weiss*
  • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/weiss/facts/
• Saul Perlmutter*
  • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2011/perlmutter/facts/
• Seth Lloyd
  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/102977/programming-the-universe-by-seth-lloyd/
• Stephan Schlamminger
  • https://www.nist.gov/people/stephan-schlamminger
• Wolfgang Ketterle*
  • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/ketterle/facts/
• *by video

Opera

• Anthony Roth Costanzo, Daniel Applebaum, Gwyneth Muller
  • https://anthonyrothcostanzo.com
• Phelim McDermott, Kathryn Bilyard
  • https://www.improbable.co.uk
• Tom Pye
  • https://www.tompye.com
• Klim Sukhanov
  • https://wearetundra.org
• Lucy Nelson, Bob Holland
  • https://www.eno.org

Video

• Devin, Lauren Tanchum
  • https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2162321

Staff, Students

• Kara Pendlebury, Camron Blackburn, Ekaterina Kormilitsyna, Jack Forman, Nina Masuelli

Schedule

• 8:00-8:30 light breakfast
  • E14-6, 75 Amherst St
• 8:30 depart for lab tours
• 8:45-9:15 gravity waves
  • https://ligolab.mit.edu
  • NW22, 195 Albany St
• 9:30-10:00 fusion energy
  • https://www.psfc.mit.edu
  • NW21, 190 Albany St
• 10:15-10:45 quantum computing
  • https://cqe.mit.edu
  • 36-258
• 11:00-11:30 nanofabrication
  • https://mitnano.mit.edu
  • MIT.nano west lobby
• 11:45-12:15 self-replication
  • https://cba.mit.edu/tools
  • E14,E15
• 12:30-1:30 lunch intros
  • E14-6 + video
• 1:30-4:00 workshop
  • E14-6 + video
• 5:00-6:00 concert
  • E14-6 + video
• 7:00-9:00 dinner, wrap-up
  • E14-6