Hello all! I just wanted to remind everyone that this will be
the final week of public viewing for this semester, but we
will be resuming in June for summer viewing. I'll send along
a message with the details as we get closer and I have a
schedule worked out with whomever the TA is.

And now for the lecture info:

Kip Thorne, well-known black hole physicist and author, is coming to The
University of Texas this Friday. His lecture, "The Warped Side of the
Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes," is free and open to the public.

The lecture will be Friday, May 2, at 3 p.m. in Welch Hall, room 2.224.
Reduced-rate parking ($4) will be available in the San Jacinto and Speedway
campus parking garages.

Thorne is the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. He
is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of
Einstein's theory of general relativity. He has long been applauded for his
ability to communicate abstract astrophysical ideas in a way that is easy to
understand and entertaining to listen to.

Thorne's ideas about wormholes and time-travel have been used in the movie
"Contact" and in the upcoming movie produced by Steven Spielberg,
"Interstellar."

Cheers,
Lara Eakins
UT Astronomy Dept.