The Salpeter Lectureship Series

The Salpeter Lecture Series was established in 1998 to honor Professor Edwin E. Salpeter, one of the most important astrophysicists of the 20th century. Under the auspices of the lectureship, distinguished astronomers and astrophysicists are invited to visit Cornell for one to two weeks.

2008 SALPETER LECTURER
Alexei Filippenko, Univ. California - Berkeley

Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium: April 21, 2008 (Monday)
4:00 p.m. Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
"Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy"

Public Lecture: April 23, 2008 (Wednesday)
7:00 p.m. Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
"Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe"

Astronomy Colloquium: April 24, 2008 (Thursday)
4:30 p.m. 105 Space Sciences Building
"The Lick Observatory Supernova Search, and Follow-Up Studies of Supernovae"

Former Salpeter Lecturers:

1999 Sterl Phinney (CalTech)
2000 Lars Bildsten (Univ. California-Berkeley)
2001 Dave Stevenson (CalTech)
2002 John Carlstrom (Univ. Chicago)
2003 Shri Kulkarni (CalTech)
2004 Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
2005 Victoria Kaspi (McGill)
2006 Avi Loeb (Harvard)
2007 Jonathan Lunine (Univ. of Arizona)