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Dark Energy: What the *&^@!?   

Risa at 9:03 pm, October 29th, 2007

For those of you in the bay area, I will be giving a public lecture at SLAC (in Menlo Park) tomorrow, mostly about Dark Energy and what the universe is made of. Familiar topics to our regular readers, but hopefully it will be fun. The lecture is at 7:30 tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, in the Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC — intended for a general audience with no particular knowlegdge of the contents of the Universe. The folks at SLAC created this appropriately halloweenie poster for the talk (click to get the whole thing). A bit more information, including maps to SLAC as well as links to past lectures in the series (held bi-monthly) can be found here.

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  1. chemicalscum on Oct 29th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

    A singularly appropriate lecture title. Be better if you hadn’t bowdlerized it though.

  2. Risa on Oct 29th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    Indeed. Federal funding and the need to advertise on the radio and all that.

  3. Johnny on Oct 29th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    I don’t suppose there’s any chance of an a video posting, similar to the Google TechTalks? It’s a long drive from Austin.

  4. Rachel on Oct 30th, 2007 at 2:21 am

    Aw crap. Why’d you have to schedule it during my music lesson? I live like three miles away.

  5. Risa on Oct 30th, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    Yes, there will be video. I’ll post the link here once it’s ready.

  6. geraint on Oct 30th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    > I live like three miles away.

    Just out of interest - why does this sentence have a “like” in it?

  7. Jamie on Oct 30th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    An earth-shattering lecture. Literally (or here).

  8. Pingback from Dark Energy: It Stinx But It Rocks! | Cosmic Variance on Oct 31st, 2007 at 12:44 am

    [...] As mentioned yesterday, I just gave a public lecture about dark energy. I think the lecture went well. As Jamie said in the comments below, it was literally earthshaking. [...]

  9. Brad Holden on Oct 31st, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    >> I live like three miles away.

    >Just out of interest - why does this sentence have a “like” in it?

    Like, in this case, means approximately but has like 3 less syllables.



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