Astronomer Alex Filippenko will speak on “Einstein's Biggest Blunder?” on Wednesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
A professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley, Filippenko researches exploding stars, active galaxies, and black holes.
He is renowned for presenting complex, exciting astrophysics to nonscientists.
His research team recently found evidence that expansion of the universe is speeding up, a discovery that resurrects the idea of the “antigravity” effect first proposed by Einstein and later renounced as his “biggest blunder.”