Professor Sylvester James Gates appears in a 10-part video series exploring the science behind the game of ice hockey. A collaboration between NBC News, NBC Sports and the National Science Foundation, the series was made especially for teachers and students to use in the classroom. Gates was also interviewed for the BBC2 program The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special, where he talked about the Higgsino a super-symmetric twin of the Higgs boson, which aired on January 9, 2012. He was the speaker at Januarys SciCafe (a monthly informal gathering) at the American Museum of Natural History where he talked about the discovery of computer codes, particularly the Adinkra symbols, which are graphical representations of string theory. Gates also gave an invited seminar, Mathematical Surprises From Off-shell SUSY Representations Theory, at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, December 21. He is one of the scientific commentators on a Koran Educational Broadcasting System science documentary entitled The Milestone of Scientific Civilization. Other December activities included a plenary lecture at the 2011 High Energy Conference, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela and invited speaker at Montana State University Physics Departments colloquium, Digging Where the Wood is Thick.
