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

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

Lecture & Discussion
Wednesday, April 30
7 - 8:30 pm
Memorial Union | Shannon Hall
Cost: Free | Ticket Policies: Tickets will be available on Wednesday Apr 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Donald Kerst Lecture Series Event: Adam Riess - The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe

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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."

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."

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