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| Measuring the Distances to Supernovae |
| Professor Robert Kirshner |
| Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM |
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| This month our speaker will be Professor Bob Kirshner of Harvard University who will speak to us about measuring the distances to supernovae which was the key to the discovery of the accelerating universe that won the 2011 Nobel Prize.
Professor Kirshner earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy at Caltech, performed his post doctoral research at Kitt Peak National Observatory and then joined the faculty at the University of Michigan for 9 years. In 1986 he moved to the Harvard Astronomy Department serving as Chairman of the Department from 1990-1997 and as head of the Optical and Infrared Division of the Cfa from 1997-2003. Professor Kirshner has written over 200 research papers dealing with supernovae and observational cosmology as well as a popular book titled “The Extravagant Universe: exploding stars, dark energy, and the accelerating cosmos.” His work with the “High-Z Supernova Team” on the acceleration of the Universe was dubbed the “Science breakthrough of the year in 1998” by Science Magazine. The two co-leaders of this team were the ones to receive the nobel prize based on this work.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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