The Department of Physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences will host its annual Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture on Thursday, April 3rd at 6:00p.m. in room 402 of the Chemistry Building, located at 409 McCormick Road. The lecture is free to attend and is intended for a general audience. There will be a short reception before the lecture, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Parking is available in the Central Grounds Parking Garage on Emmett Street and, after 5 p.m., in the Scott Stadium lots.

This year the talk, titled "Exploring the Warped side of Our Universe", will be given by Nobel laureate Kip Thorne.

Abstract:
In 1964, when Thorne was a student, there were hints that our universe might have a Warped Side: Objects and phenomena made from warped space and warped time instead of from matter. Thorne and his colleagues have spent these past sixty years turning those hints into clear understanding. They have explored the Warped Side through theory (using mathematics and computer simulations to probe what the laws of physics predict) and through astronomical observations (primarily with gravitational waves). In this lecture he will describe what they have learned about Warped-Side phenomena: black holes, wormholes, gravitational waves, our universe’s big-bang birth, and the possibility of time travel.

Please email Avery Bledsoe at ptt3vn@virginia.edu with questions.