AAA LECTURE SERIES AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. Everyone is welcome to attend, admission is free to the lecture, and no reservations or tickets are required.

This lecture series is held at the Kaufmann Auditorium of the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West between 77th and 81st Streets.  Lectures begin at 6:15 p.m. and run to 8:00 p.m. Generally, lectures take place on the first Friday of the month.

Each year one lecture is designated the John Marshall Memorial Lecture, to honor a former president of the Association.

Chair:  David Kraft

          Dr. Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT, will kick off the AAA's 2010-11 lecture series on Friday, October 1, when he discusses "The History of the Universe in One Hour."  The free public lectue begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH.

          "With a cosmic flight simulator," he tells Eyepiece, "we'll take a scenic journey through space and time.  After exploring our localgalactic neighborhood, we'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state-of-the-art measurements are transforming our understanding of our cosmic origin and ultimate fate."  If attendees have questions about dark matter, dark energy, black holes, parallel universes or other matters cosmological, this will be a great opportunity to ask them, Tegmark said.

          A native of Stockholm, Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his B.Sc. degree in physics from the Royal Institute of Technology.  He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.  Tegmark worked at the Max Planck Institute for physics in Munich, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the MIT faculty in 2004.