Schedule
Timed Activities:
- Children's Program: 7:30 to 7:50 pm Auditorium
- Adult Short Dome Tour: 7:30 to 7:50 pm Plaskett Dome
- Children's Dome Tour: 8:00 to 8:30 pm Plaskett Dome
- Guest Presentation # 1: 8:00 to 8:40 pm Auditorium
- Guest Presentation # 2: 9:00 to 9:40 pm Auditorium
- Adult Full Dome Tour: 9:00 to 9:40 pm Plaskett Dome
- Adult Dome Tour / Plaskett Photography: 10:00 to 10:40 pm Plaskett Dome (Telescope open, weather permitting)
Ongoing Activities: (7:30 to 10:40 pm) The Hill closes at 11pm.
- RASC Telescopes in the Parking Lot and on the Deck (weather permitting)
- The 16" Telescope beside the CU (weather permitting)
- Ask an Astronomer - (Lobby/Deck)
- RASC Welcome Table -(Lobby)
- Children's Craft Table- (Lobby 7:30 to 9:30 pm)
- Display Gallery - Demonstrations and Hosted Q&A
- Gift Shop
- Hot and Cold Drinks available for purchase - (Deck)
- Planetarium - Unhosted Films - Seating limited to 8 people at any one time
Guest Presentation: Cosmology: the Wonder and Nightmare of Contemporary Physics
Summary
Contemporary Physics represents the culmination of centuries of intellectual efforts dedicated to formulating the fundamental laws that govern the nature of matter, energy, and their interactions. These laws, however, fail to describe the Universe as a whole: neither the matter we know is the one that dominates the Universe, nor the energy we know is the one that governs its expansion and final fate. I will try to review how Cosmology has become in the past few decades the final frontier of our understanding of Nature.
Biography
Dr Julio Navarro is the Lansdowne Science Professor at the University of Victoria. Originally from Argentina, he has held positions at Harvard University, Cambridge University, Durham University and the University of Arizona. He has received fellowships from the Sloan, Guggenheim, and Humboldt Foundations, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published more than 300 research articles, and has been in Victoria since 1998.
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