Lecture by Dr. John C Mather, Nobel Laureate in Physics

[Aakash Bhowmick]

Lecture by Dr. John C Mather

Space Technology Students' Society, IIT Kharagpur is organizing a webinar by Dr. John C Mather, Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, titled “History of the Universe from the Beginning to End” on 17th January, 2013 at SN Bose Auditorium at 7:30 PM. All interested students are welcome to attend the lecture. The lecture will be followed by a question-&-answer session. (Note: Kindly take your seats 10 mins before the start of the lecture.)

Venue : SN Bose Auditorium, IIT Kharagpur

Date : 17th January, 2013

Time : 7:30pm onwards

Title : "History of the Universe from the Beginning to End"

About The Speaker:

John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot. In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mather is also a senior astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

About the Lecture:

The history of the universe in a nutshell, from the Big Bang to now, and on to the future – John Mather will tell the story of how we got here, how the Universe began with a Big Bang, how it could have produced an Earth where sentient beings can live, and how those beings are discovering their history. Mather was Project Scientist for NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which measured the spectrum (the color) of the heat radiation from the Big Bang, discovered hot and cold spots in that radiation, and hunted for the first objects that formed after the great explosion. He will explain Einstein’s biggest mistake, how Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, how the COBE mission was built, and how the COBE data support the Big Bang theory. He will also show NASA’s plans for the next great telescope in space, the James Webb Space Telescope. It will look even farther back in time than the Hubble Space Telescope, and will peer inside the dusty cocoons where stars and planets are being born today. It is capable of examining Earth-like planets around other stars using the transit technique, and future missions may find signs of life.

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Aakash S. Bhowmick,
Undergraduate Student,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, W.B. - 721302.

 

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Aakash S. Bhowmick,
Undergraduate Student,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, W.B. - 721302.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

Great! Thanks!