Adam Riess: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe - A Donald Kerst Lecture Series

Tickets will be on sale on 4/23! Adam   Riess  is a distinguished astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for his leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained "dark energy" filling the universe. The discovery was named by Science magazine in 1998 as "the Breakthrough Discovery of the Year."