A series of lectures on Saturday, May 11, will celebrate the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the contributions of Winston Ko, who is retiring in June after 10 years as dean of the ...

Amidst the celebrations for a 20th century icon in the world of astronomy, one of today's most important leaders will be honored with the prestigious 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Professor Charles C.

Princeton University physicist Curtis Callan will give a free public lecture on cosmology and particle physics on Monday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the University Inn and Conference Center, 611 Ocean ...

The Kaczmarczik Lecture is a significant event at Drexel University. For nearly 30 years, guest lecturers have included numerous Nobel Laureates and renowned scientists from around the world who ...

Joel Primack, professor of physics at UCSC, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube. Links ...

Our understanding of the cosmos has come a long way since the early Mesopotamians described a flat, circular Earth embedded in a cosmic ocean. Now scientists build massive telescopes and use highly ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cambridge astrophysicist John D. Barrow will discuss the relationship between science and religion during an April 1 lecture at Purdue University. Barrow's talk, entitled "The ...

(Link) This study reports the results of the first systematic investigation into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties with cosmology. We developed four surveys with which we ...

Stacy McGaugh, director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Case Western Reserve University, will present "Gravity and Cosmology a Century after Einstein" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in 152 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Charles L. Bennett is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He does research in ...

Discussions are underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held at Penn in 2023. The Musk lectures began in 2009 following an endowment by 1997 College ...

Bruno Latour, Professor Emeritus at Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), received the 2021 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his radically re-examining “modernity” by developing a ...