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World-renowned astronomer John Huchra will visit USC as the Harlow Shapley Lecturer April 4 and 5. Huchra will give a public lecture titled, "The State of the Universe," beginning at 6:30 p.m. April 4 in the Law School Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Huchra is the Robert O. and Holly Thomis Doyle Professor of Cosmology and senior advisor to the provost for research policy at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
In his public lecture, Huchra will present recent observational progress on the Big Bang model of the universe from new satellites and telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. He also will discuss the elusive "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" that appear to dominate the content of the universe, giving an overview of the remaining problems in cosmology and the prospects for studying them.
Huchra's visit is organized by the USC| Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Harlow Shapley Lectureship Program is sponsored by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The Shapley Lectureship consists of two-day visits by prominent professional astronomers to college campuses, with the goal of bringing the excitement of modern astronomy and astrophysics to colleges and universities.
In addition to the public lecture, Huchra will also give a physics and astronomy colloquium titled, "A New Map of the Nearby Universe," beginning at 3:30 p.m. April 5 in Room 409 of the Jones Physical Science Center.
For more information about these events, contact Mary Papp at 7-8105 or papp@physics.sc.edu, or Varsha Kulkarni at 7-6293 or kulkarni@sc.edu.
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