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Adam Riess: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe - A Donald Kerst Lecture Series

Adam Riess: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe - A Donald Kerst Lecture Series

Lecture & Discussion
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Memorial Union
Shannon Hall
Free event
A Donald Kerst Lecture Series Event: Adam Riess - The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe

Tickets will be on sale on 4/23!

Adam Riess is a distinguished astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2011, he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for his leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained "dark energy" filling the universe. The discovery was named by Science magazine in 1998 as "the Breakthrough Discovery of the Year."

Presented by:

College of Letters and Science

With support from:

Donald Kerst Lecture Series