Speaker：Professor Heidi Newberg

（Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy，Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute，Troy, New York）

Date: May 18（Friday）, 2012, Afternoon at 13:30

Place: 中国科学院上海天文台，南丹路80号3楼中会议室

Title：The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe

Abstract:

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded ``for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. Heidi Newberg was a founding member (since 1988) of the Supernova Cosmology Project (one of the two competing teams to make this discovery), which is headed by Saul Permutter, and a co-author on the award-winning paper: Perlmutter, S., et al. (1999), "Measurement of Ω and Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae," Astrophysical Journal, 517, 565-586. She will describe what the accelerating Universe is, how it was discovered, what it is like to work on ground-breaking scientific research,and her reflections from the award ceremony itself.

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