Nobel Laureate to Present “The Surprising History of the Expansion of the Universe”
The Department of Physics and Astronomy, together with the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, will be hosting a free reception and public lecture on Tuesday, November 4th from 6pm – 8:30 pm. Professor Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute will describe his team’s measurements that reveal how the expansion of space has unfolded over time, and explain why they are surprising. This work was recognized with the 2011 Nobel prize in physics and more recently has led to yet another surprising result. Both of these findings remain major drivers of the cosmology community’s attempts to understand the cosmos and the fundamental laws of nature.
