Physicists Rocky Kolb and Janna Levin to speak on Einstein’s cosmic legacy.
CHICAGO – The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) continues its four-month-long commemoration of Albert Einstein’s revolutionary 1905 papers, Einstein’s Revolutions, with a discussion on “Einstein’s Cosmic Legacy” on Monday, July 11, 2005 with Edward “Rocky” Kolb and Janna Levin at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Pritzker Auditorium, at 6:00 p.m.
Professors Kolb and Levin will discuss several profound questions central to cosmology: What is the power source of the big bang? What is the dark energy pulling apart our universe? Is the universe finite?
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This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To make reservations or for more information, contact the IHC at 312.422.5580 or send an email to ihc@prairie.org. This event is wheelchair accessible. “Einstein’s Revolutions” is funded in part by grants from The Boeing Company and Motorola, Inc.
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Edward “Rocky” Kolb is Director of the Particle Astrophysics Center at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Chicago, and author of Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our Views of the Universe. Janna Levin is Assistant Professor of Physics, Barnard College of Columbia University and author of How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space.
This program is part of “Einstein’s Revolutions” a free, four-month-long series of programs taking place in Chicago through October 2005. Einstein’s Revolutions brings together scientists of international reputation — with philosophers, historians, artists, and a general audience — to look at the impact of the 1905 papers on our current understandings of the world, both scientific and personal.
Future programs include a lecture on “Time’s Arrow” by Sean Carroll, Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, and a lecture on “Einstein’s Hidden Worlds” by Joe Lykken, Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Professor, Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.
For a full calendar of events or for more information, please visit www.prairie.org/Einstein or contact the IHC at 312.422.5580 or via email at ihc@prairie.org.
The Illinois Humanities Council is a nonprofit educational organization [501 (c) 3] dedicated to fostering a culture in which the humanities are a vital part of the lives of individuals and communities. Organized in 1973 as the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the IHC creates programs and funds organizations that promote greater understanding of, appreciation for, and involvement in the humanities. The IHC is supported by state, federal, and private funds.
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