Thursday, February 6 2025, 4 - 5pm Physics Building Room 202 Chhabra Landau Distinguished Lecture Prof. David Spergel President, Center for Computational Astrophysics Simons Foundation and Flatiron Institute About the Speaker: Prof. David Spergel joined the Flatiron Institute in 2016 as founding director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. In 2021 he became president of the Simons Foundation. His research interests range from the search for planets around nearby stars to the shape of the universe.He received his Ph.D. from Harvard U. in 1985 and joined the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study thereafter. In 1987 he joined the faculty of Princeton University and remained there for 30 years, serving as Department Head for a decade. He is now the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University. Prof. Spergel is a 2001 MacArthur Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received many other distinctions including the Danny Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 2015 and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018.. His observations have played a significant role in establishing the standard model of cosmology. The 2025 Chhabra-Landau Lecture takes place on February 6 at 4:00-5:00 PM in the Physics Auditorium (Rm. 202) and virtually on Zoom. Our guest speaker is Professor David Spergel from the Simons Foundation and Flatiron Institute Title: Our simple, strange universe Prof. David Spergel President, Center for Computational Astrophysics Simons Foundation and Flatiron Institute Video Recording can be found here: Facebook social media post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DtXLwsZtj/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram social media post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFn5P5HTPxJ/?igsh=MWhsNjhicWQ0YTBnaw== Local Contact: Prof. Phillip Stancil, pstancil@uga.edu Event Flyer (123.61 KB)
