UAF physics club to host Lawrence Krauss talk
February 21, 2017
Humanity's path to its current understanding of the universe is the greatest story ever told, according to famed physicist Lawrence Krauss. The University of Alaska Fairbanks physics club is bringing Krauss to Fairbanks for a free public lecture from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, March 2, at the West Valley High School Performing Arts Center, 3800 Geist Road.
The talk is called “Hidden Realities: The Greatest Story Ever Told … So Far." Krauss will engage the audience in the intellectual journey that Plato, Einstein and other great thinkers undertook to explore the hows and whys of the universe while revolutionizing the way people currently frame their understanding of the world.
Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist whose research interests include the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, studies of the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics.
He also devotes his time to science education and public policy and serves as director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He has written more than 300 scientific publications and the best-selling books "The Physics of Star Trek" (1995) and "A Universe From Nothing" (2012). Krauss previously served as a professor at Yale University and as professor and chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University.
The UAF chapter of the Society of Physics Students is sponsoring the event.
CONTACT: Meghan Murphy, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, 907-474-7541
ONLINE: http://cnsm.uaf.edu/krauss