<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"> Public Lecture<br><br></span><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">Dr. Chris Clarkson, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at UCT will give a free public lecture at S.A. Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town on Saturday, January 14 at 20h00. The title of his lecture is "Our strangely repulsive Universe: the dark energy mystery in cosmology" After the talk, there will be stargazing and tours of the site.</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">Summary of the lecture:</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">Our strangely repulsive Universe: the dark energy mystery in cosmology</span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">Late
last year, the Nobel prize in physics went to three cosmologists for
“the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through
observations of distant supernovae”. But what does their discovery mean?
And what are the implications? </span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;">In this talk he will explore our
universe on the very largest scales in space and time, and investigate
how everything we observe fits neatly together into a single 'Big Bang'
picture of the universe. Then we'll see that the 'dark energy' that
seems to be accelerating the cosmic expansion rate may be telling us
something far deeper: that our universe is not alone... </span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"></span><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span name="x"></span>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Thembela Mantungwa<br>S.A. Astronomical Observatory<br>Tel: 021 460 9319<br>Fax: 086 612 7502<br>Email: tm@saao.ac.za<br>Website: www.saao.ac.za / www.salt.ac.za<br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></body></html>