RASC Hamilton [ Special Announcement] Fwd: RCI Lecture: Weighing the Universe with Gravitational Lensing

[David Surette]

Conundrum!

The lecture is on the same night as our monthly meeting...

David


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Andy Blanchard <atacamandy at gmail.com>wrote:

> FYI, I received this email this morning and thought I would share it with
> our members. The topic sounds very interesting. See below.
>
> Have a great day
>
> Andy Blanchard
> 905-465-2031H
> 905-847-7777B
> 905-330-5626
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science <
> rciscience at gmail.com>
> *Date:* 30 January, 2013 10:27:34 PM EST
> *To:* President at hamiltonrasc.ca
> *Subject:* *RCI Lecture: Weighing the Universe with Gravitational Lensing*
>
> Hello Roger,
> We thought you and your group may be interested in the Royal Canadian
> Institute's (RCI) upcoming lecture titled Weighing the Universe with
> Gravitational Lensing. It is sure to be a fascinating lecture presented by
> one of your fellow Hamiltonians.
>
> As always RCI lectures are free and open to the public. A description of
> the lecture follows, and further details can be found at
> http://royalcanadianinstitute.org/.
>
> We hope to see you there!
> Alexis Esseltine
> RCI Councillor
>
> Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 pm
> Noel Ryan Auditorium, Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnamthorpe Road
> W., Mississauga
>
> Weighing the Universe with Gravitational Lensing
>
> Laura Parker, B.Sc., Ph.D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster
> University, Hamilton
>
> Most of the mass in the Universe is believed to be in an unseen form
> called dark matter.  In this talk I will present the observational evidence
> leading to this incredible realization.  I will then focus in particular on
> the use of gravitational lensing to investigate dark matter.  In
> gravitational lensing light is bent by the presence of  massive objects in
> much the same way that an optical lens bends light.   Remarkably, we can
> use lensing to study the amount and distribution of dark matter in the
> universe on scales ranging from individual galaxies to the entire universe
> itself.
> This is a joint lecture with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada -
> Mississauga Centre
>
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