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Popular Talks
- John Mather (NASA GSFC, Nobel laureate in physics 2006, project scientist for the JWST ): 2010 January 30, 10AM SLT Saturday
- From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and on to James Webb Space Telescope :The history of the universe in a nutshell, from the Big Bang to now, and on to the future – John Mather will tell the story of how we got here, how the Universe began with a Big Bang, how it could have produced an Earth where sentient beings can live, and how those beings are discovering their history. Mather was Project Scientist for NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which measured the spectrum (the color) of the heat radiation from the Big Bang, discovered hot and cold spots in that radiation, and hunted for the first objects that formed after the great explosion. He will explain Einstein’s biggest mistake, show how Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, how the COBE mission was built, and how the COBE data support the Big Bang theory. He will also show NASA’s plans for the next great telescope in space, the James Webb Space Telescope. It will look even farther back in time than the Hubble Space Telescope, and will look inside the dusty cocoons where stars and planets are being born today. Planned for launch in 2014, it may lead to another Nobel Prize for some lucky observer.
- At the MICA Large Amphitheater
- Sean Carroll (Caltech ): 2010 February, 6 , 10AM SLT Saturday
- From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Dr. Carroll will discuss the ideas covered in his latest book by the same title. The talk will be followed by the Q&A session. For more details, please see here
- At the MICA Large Amphitheater
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