Lexington Community Education presents: Mapping the Heavens
When:
Monday, Sep 26, 2016 7:00p -
8:30p
Monday, Sep 26, 2016 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Lexington Depot
13 Depot Square
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
Admission:
$10.00
Categories:
Innovation, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://www.lexingtoncommunityed.org/detail.php?q=SMAP
The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan is someone at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.
Her book, Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe.
Priyamvada Natarajan is Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. She is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and black hole physics. Her research involves mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter in the universe.
Pre-registration strongly recommended. To register, using a VISA or MasterCard, please contact Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.
