Frontiers of Astronomy
- A free lecture series at the Cleveland Museum
of Natural History
sponsored by the Dept of Astronomy at
Case Western Reserve University
1)
Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Cosmos: A Blunder Undone
Dr. Robert Kirshner, Harvard
University
October 18, 2007, 8 pm
2) Numerical Cosmology: Building the Universe on a Computer
Dr. Romeel Davé, University of
Arizona
November 15, 2007, 8 pm
3) Adventitious Machinery: Our Heritage as Amplified Noise
Dr. Gus Evrard, University of
Michigan
December 13, 2007, 8 pm
4) Black Holes: Their Birth and
Violent Interactions
Dr. Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University
March 20, 2008, 8 pm
5) Probing the
Early Universe with Extremely Energetic Gamma-Ray Bursts
Dr. Dieter Hartmann, Clemson
University
April 24, 2008, 8 pm
There are no more lectures in
the 2007-2008 series.
Schedule for the 2008-2009
season will be posted here when available.
Are we there yet?
- set the speed of your rocket ship and see how long your trip will take (this
is fun!)
