Live Post-premier Conversation With Professor Brian Greene, Host of New PBS NOVA Series

To mark the premiere of the four-part public television series The Fabric of the Cosmos With Brian Greene , Columbia professor of mathematics and physics Brian Greene will host a special live forum at Miller Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Presented by the World Science Festival, Columbia and the PBS program NOVA, the forum will include a screening of the series premiere followed by a conversation with Brian Greene and other participants in the series, including theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind and Saul Perlmutter, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.

The event begins at 8:50 p.m. and will be webcast live starting at 10:00 p.m. on the World Science Festival’s website. To attend, visit the registration page.

Questions for Greene can be submitted now via Twitter (using hashtag #WSFforum), or on the World Science Festival’s Facebook page. Users can also tune in to the live webcast at worldsciencefestival.com and submit questions during the webcast.

The Fabric of the Cosmos, a four-hour series based on Greene’s bestselling book of the same name, will take viewers to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together a more complete picture of space, time and the universe. It will air on PBS on Nov. 2, 9, 16 and 23.

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