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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Cosmology Lecture in Chicago

New Views of the Universe: Extra Dimensions, Dark Energy and Cosmic Adventures

7 p.m. Monday, December 12, at the Harris Theater in Chicago's Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph.

The event is free and open to the public.

Join us as five of world's leading cosmologists and National Public Radio's Ira Flatow debate some of the most exciting topics in cosmology and all of science:

What happened in the earliest moments after the Big Bang?
What is the nature of the mysterious Dark Energy that is speeding up the expansion of the universe?

Are there Extra Dimensions beyond the three we know about? Do Parallel Universes or Multiverses exist?

The debate will be followed by book signings by the panelist authors.

Site link here: newviews.uchicago.edu/public/

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This could be quite an intertesting lecture to attend...

We thank fellow astronomer Debra Lazar Pearl for the notice.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Panelists to take cosmic adventures to public

New Views of the Universe: Extra Dimensions, Dark Energy and Cosmic Adventures,” is the title of a panel discussion that will begin at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, at the Harris Theater in Chicago’s Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph.

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University are jointly sponsoring the free, public event with the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, and the Illinois Humanities Council.

Five scientists, who are participating in “New Views of the Universe,” the inaugural symposium of the Kavli Institute, will serve as panelists for the public discussion. Moderating the panel will be Ira Flatow, the host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” a weekly science, technology and environment news program.

Recent discoveries in cosmology have revealed a universe in which ordinary matter, the stuff of which humans, stars and galaxies are made, accounts for less than 5 percent of the universe’s total mass and energy.

More here: chronicle.uchicago.edu/051201/cosmic.shtml
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There has been talk about meeting before the event for eats/drinks...and I think it's a great idea.

More details when known and notification via emails.