EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Saturday, May 17

EVENT: Cosmologists are a brave group. They have to be, says Michael Turner, because without some arrogance they never would have undertaken the seemingly impossible task of trying to figure out the universe. Turner, chair of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of Chicago, will give a public lecture in Ann Arbor focusing on some of the most pressing questions in cosmology today. For example, he says, there is reason to believe that the ubiquitous dark matter that holds the universe together is elementary particles left over from its earliest moments. “The Dark Side of the Universe” will address these theories and other milestones in what he calls the great adventure—tracing the evolution of the universe from the hot, formless, quark soup that existed at the very beginning to the universe we see 14 billion years later. This lecture is suitable for anyone interested in science.

TIME: 7:30 p.m., free and open to the public.

PLACE: 1800 Dow Chemistry Building, 930 N. University, on the University of Michigan Central Campus. For a map, visit: www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/ccamp.html

SPONSOR: Turner’s lecture is part of the Great Lakes Cosmology VII meeting, organized and sponsored by the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP) at the University of Michigan.

WEB LINKS: For more information about MCTP and the conference, see www.umich.edu/~mctp.

For Turner’s biography, visit http://physics.uchicago.edu/t_astro.html.

www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/

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