Second Annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Paul Wesson

Abstract: The Second Annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 15, 2010. The talk will be presented in the Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium on the campus of the University of Louisville.

Please join us as we again celebrate the life of Dr. H. Andrew Chamblin, who was Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Louisville until his untimely passing in 2006. We welcome as distinguished speaker Dr. Paul Wesson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), and author of numerous books including "Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos", "Space-Time-Matter: Modern High-dimensional Cosmology", and the forthcoming "Weaving the Universe".

Do we discover the laws of Nature, or are they invented in the human mind? The former view is traditional, but recently ther has been a shift to the opinion that some of our science has a subjective element. This was actually suggested long ago by the famous astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), who stated "The stuff if the world us mind-stuff." In this talk, data and pictures from the speaker's upcoming book will be used to take a new look at modern cosmology.

Paul Wesson is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and author of numerous books including "Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos" and "Space-Time-Matter: Modern High-dimensional Cosmology." He also coordinates a group called the 5-D Space-Time-Matter Consortium.

The video of this talk is available:

part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPadGpK7rww

part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSMvKuowBAo

part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EKTZW7IQ4

part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzwwbaITnk

part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVfbOo3lWNk

part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qWSs418Jz0

part 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVsgAo0vw6Y

part 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnvt19mPo4

To find out more about Andrew Chamblin, visit www.andrewchamblin.org.

If you would like to help make the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture a sustainable annual event that benefits our community and honors the legacy of this gifted young man, please consider making a gift to the Department of Physics & Astronomy by visiting the University Giving Page and specifying a gift to "G1676:Andrew Chamblin Memorial Fund". Thank you.