Featured Speaker
Steven Weinberg, Ph.D. - Nobel Laureate
What’s Going On In Cosmology Today?
Friday 2:00-3:15 PM, Ballroom D
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and cosmology has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. Steven is the author of over 300 articles and 10 books, including his prize-winning book on cosmology, The First Three Minutes. His articles for general readers appear from time to time in The New York Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and other periodicals. He is currently a senior advisor to the JASON group of defense consultants; he has testified several times before committees of Congress on matters of science or security policy; and he recently served on the Hart-Rudman Panel on homeland security of the Council for Foreign Relations.
