Continental Breakfast
Kresge Lobby (W16)
8:00 – 9:00 am

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Kresge Auditorium (W16)
9:00 – 9:10 am

• Edmund Bertschinger, Professor and Department Head of Physics
• Jackie Hewitt, Director of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research

Cosmology
Kresge Auditorium (W16)
9:10 – 10:00 am

• Anna Frebel, Assistant Professor of Physics
  “The Oldest Stars in the Milky Way”
• Rob Simcoe, Associate Professor of Physics
  “Cosmic Dawn”

Break
Kresge Lobby (W16)
10:00 – 10:30 am

Inflation, LIGO, and Exoplanets
Kresge Auditorium (W16)
10:30 – 11:45 am

• Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
  “Cosmology and the Arrow of Time”
• Nergis Mavalvala, Curtis (1963) and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics
  “Take a Walk on the Warped Side: Searching for Gravitational Waves”
• Josh Winn, Associate Professor of Physics
  “Strange New Worlds”

Break
11:45 am – 4:15 pm

Colloquium
4:15 – 5:15 pm in 10-250

• Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
  “The Pioneering Decade of X-ray Astronomy”

Reception
5:15 – 6:15 pm in Lobby 10

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