Don't miss Alex Filippenko speaking at the Astronomy program

The closing talk at our upcoming program Copernicus, Galileo & Kepler: Redefining our Place in the Universe (Oct. 2 & 3) will be delivered by Alex Filippenko of the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department. While the title "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe" may sound intimidating for a lay audience, Filippenko has a well-deserved reputation for making complex scientific concepts understandable. In addition to publishing 500 research papers, he has been voted the "Best Professor" on campus five times. Other recognition awards include the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization in 2004 and the U.S. Professor of the Year award in 2006 (sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching). He has also produced a well-received astronomy video course for The Teaching Company on Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astonomy (96 30-minute lectures). Don't miss this chance to hear one of America's best known astronomers talking about what is sometimes considered the most important unsolved problem in physics: the nature of dark energy.

Henry Tenenbaum will be interviewing Filippenko on KRON Channel 4 News Weekend show (Sunday Sept. 27, 8:00-10:00 am).