Professor Brian Cox - Emergence
About This Event
At NJPAC, Professor Brian Cox presents Emergence, a live program that blends spoken‑word framing with rock/pop performance. A particle physicist and professor at the University of Manchester, known from BBC radio and television and for his work on the ATLAS experiment, Cox combines music and exposition to make complex scientific ideas accessible.
About Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.
About the Artists
Professor Brian Cox
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Brian Cox
Brian Cox is an English particle physicist who also works as a musician, moving between public science communication and Rock/Pop performance. He teaches physics at the University of Manchester and is known from BBC radio and television as well as popular science books that translate complex ideas for general audiences.