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SMITH LECTURE - Kip Thorne (CalTech) "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Interstellar"

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November 18, 2015
8:00PM - 9:30PM
131 Hitchcock Hall

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Add to Calendar 2015-11-18 20:00:00 2015-11-18 21:30:00 SMITH LECTURE - Kip Thorne (CalTech) "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Interstellar" FREE PUBLIC LECTURE -For decades, the physicist behind the movie, Interstellar, and "The man who imagined wormholes," has imagined, reinvented and changed the ways prominent physicists and just plain folks think about the workings of the universe.  Hear him speak about the stranger-than-fiction science of general relativity that is the underpinning of one of the century's must-see movies, on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's incredible discovery.The Alpheus Smith Lecture has been bringing leading-edge work of Nobel Laureates and other prominent physicists to the community since 1960.  The free, public lecture series is endowed by Robert Smith to honor his father, Physics Professor Alpheus W. Smith.  131 Hitchcock Hall Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE -

For decades, the physicist behind the movie, Interstellar, and "The man who imagined wormholes," has imagined, reinvented and changed the ways prominent physicists and just plain folks think about the workings of the universe.  Hear him speak about the stranger-than-fiction science of general relativity that is the underpinning of one of the century's must-see movies, on the 100th anniversary of Einstein's incredible discovery.

The Alpheus Smith Lecture has been bringing leading-edge work of Nobel Laureates and other prominent physicists to the community since 1960.  The free, public lecture series is endowed by Robert Smith to honor his father, Physics Professor Alpheus W. Smith.