The Expanding Universe and Large Telescopes (Lecture on October 28, 2014)

The Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Hesburgh Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of the Jordan Hall of Science, campus of the University of Notre Dame. This year’s guest speaker will be Dr. Peter Garnavich. His presentation is entitled “The Expanding Universe and Large Telescopes.” Dr. Garnavich was a member of the research team that won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. A reception will follow Dr. Garnavich’s presentation. Weather permitting, there will be an opportunity to go to the Observatory on Jordan Hall and look through the telescopes.