PUBLIC TALK (Free Admission)
Professor Robert Kirshner from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will visit UNM between May 19 and 22 and will deliver a public lecture on one of the hottest topics in particle physics and cosmology. The lecture is scheduled at Kiva Lecture Hall at 7:30 pm :
| [May 21 (Wed)] The accelerating Universe: Exploding Stars and Dark Energy Robert P. Kirshner, is Harvard College Professor of Astronomy and Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is an author of over 200 research papers dealing with supernovae and observational cosmology. His work with the "High-Z Supernova Team" on the acceleration of the Universe was dubbed the "Science Breakthrough of the Year for 1998" by Science Magazine. Kirshner and the High-Z Team shared in the Gruber Prize for Cosmology in 2007. A member of the Amercian Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. He served as President of the American Astronomical Society from 2003-2005. Kirshner is a frequent public lecturer on science. His popular-level book "The Extravagant Universe: exploding stars, dark energy, and the accelerating cosmos" was published by Princeton University Press. It won the AAP Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy and was a Finalist for the 2003 Aventis Prize. The Extravagant Universe is now available in paperback and has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Czech.
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Tickets are not required for the public lecture, which is sponsored by Department of Physics and Astronomy and the University of New Mexico as part of PPC 2008, a weeklong international investigation into potential connections between new fundamental particles and their impact on the early Universe.
