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Dr. Janna Levin’s scientific research concerns the early Universe, chaos, and black holes. Her second book, a novel called A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf, 2006), won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers, an award that "honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work...represents distinguished literary achievement..."

She is the author of the popular science book, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space. Janna was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (NESTA). She has written for many artists and appeared on several radio and television programs.

VIDEO: Dr. Janna Levin on "Sounds in Space"