All lectures are on Fridays at 7:30 p.m., 1800 Dow Chemistry Building, 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor. Lectures followed by telescope viewing at Angell Hall Observatory.
Several lectures in the "Astronomy of the 21st Century" Distinguished Speaker series are now available in the Deep Blue Archive and on iTunesU at http://itunes.umich.edu.
Click on Event Title to learn more about each lecture and speaker.
January 23
Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies: Violence in the Young Universe
Charles C. Steidel
California Institute of Technology
Orren C. Mohler Prize Lecture
February 6
A Revolution in Planetary Science: The Three-Zoned Solar System
S. Alan Stern
Former NASA Associate Administrator
February 20
Unveiling a Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
Andrea Ghez
University of California at Los Angeles
2008 MacArthur Fellow
March 13
Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Princeton University
1993 Nobel Prize winner
April 3
The Future of our Universe: From the 21st Century to the End
Fred C. Adams
University of Michigan
1996 Warner Prize winner
Presented by the Department of Astronomy, the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, and the Student Astronomical Society, and sponsored by the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, the University Activities Center, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.