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Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Subject: RCI LECTURE Weighing the Universe with Gravitational Lensing
To: Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science <[address removed]>
We thought you may be interested in
the Royal Canadian Institute's (RCI) upcoming lecture on the gravitational lensing. It is sure to be a fascinating lecture.
We hope to see you there!
Corinne Sperling
Thursday, March 17 at 7:30 pm
Noel Ryan Auditorium, Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnamthorpe Road West
Weighing the Universe with Gravitational Lensing
Laura Parker, B.Sc., Ph.D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton
Most
of the mass in the Universe is believed to be in an unseen form called
dark matter. In this talk I will present the observational evidence
leading to this incredible realization. Laura will then focus in particular
on the use of gravitational lensing to investigate dark matter. In
gravitational lensing light is bent by the presence of massive objects
in much the same way that an optical lens bends light. Remarkably, we
can use lensing to study the amount and distribution of dark matter in
the universe on scales ranging from individual galaxies to the entire
universe itself.
This is a joint lecture with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Mississauga Centre