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Professor Dennin earned his A. B. from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He held a postdoctoral position at UCLA. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar. Professor Dennin's main research interest is systems that exhibit emergent properties. These include the behavior of complex fluids, such as foam and sand, as well as the complex dynamics of biological systems. Professor Dennin is well-known for popularizing science for the public. He has taught many online courses on the nature of science, including team teaching a MOOC based on the television program, The Walking Dead. He has appeared on a number of television programs, including Spider-man Tech, Batman Tech, Star Wars Tech, and Ancient Aliens.

Gerardo Ortiz is a professor of physics and scientific director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Center at Indian University Bloomington. His scientific career has spanned a wide variety of topics in condensed matter physics and quantum information science, including electron fluids and solids, strongly correlated systems, quantum Hall physics, high-temperature superconductivity, quantum critical phenomena, and topological quantum matter, among others. After receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ortiz continued his career in the United States as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later as an Oppenheimer fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he served as a permanent staff member until 2006.