2013 Winter Lecture Series speakers announced

Friday, January 25
FROM THE BIG BANG TO GALLATIN VALLEY: The Cosmic biography of atoms
Shane L. Larson, Assistant Professor of Physics, Utah State University

Shane Larson will describe the biography of an atom, from the Big Bang to the Gallatin Valley, and explore how the evolution and changes of a single atom can be traced and followed in the lives and deaths of stars.

Friday February 22
A Shout through Space and Time: Einstein’s Legacy
Nico Yunes, Assistant Professor of Physics, Montana State University

Join Nico Yunes as he describes Einstein’s gravitational waves and how they encode the secrets of black holes – as well as, neutron stars and our current efforts to detect them and verify Einstein’s last untested prediction.

Wednesday March 27
Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace
David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor, MIT

David Kaiser examines ways in which research on general relativity was embedded in, and at times engulfed by, the tumult of world politics over the course of the twentieth century.