RASC Vancouver Monthly Meeting

Topic: From Static to Expanding to Accelerating: The past 100 years and the next 20

Speaker: Levon Pogosian, Associate Professor of Physics at SFU

Location: Shrum Science Centre Chemistry building, room C9002, located off the southwest corner of the Academic Quadrangle. Follow the hallway to the left of the large C9001 lecture theatre, past C9000. C9002 will be on your right. See map here (http://files.meetup.com/1276587/sfu_campus_map_2013_14x8_C9002.pdf).

Abstract: Not only the universe is expanding, it is doing so at an accelerating rate. The nature of the so-called Dark Energy thought to be causing the acceleration is currently unknown, but upcoming astronomical data will dramatically improve our ability to narrow the pool of possibilities. The lecture will review the history leading to the astounding discovery of cosmic acceleration in 1998 and the challenges that cosmologists are addressing today.

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