2007

 

 

UC Berkeley Announces New Cosmology Center December 4, 2007

 

BCCP Director George Smoot, Chancelor Birgeneau, Professor Saul Perlmutter, and Dean of Physical Sciences Mark Richards discuss the new cosmology center goals at a press conference on the UC campus
(Photo - Bob Stokstad)


ABC News Video

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Stephen Hawking hosted a workshop to commemorate the 1982 meeting that addressed new discoveries in cosmology. Inflation was a new theory that had implications for the Big Bang model, and many leading scientists in the field attended. The Early Universe, 25 years on was held to discuss recent developments in cosmology. George Smoot lectured on Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Sky.

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Nobel Prize Physicist Wants To Reduce Carbon Footprints - ABC News Story   

BERKELEY, Calif. Oct. 12, 2007 -- A UC Berkeley professor who won a Nobel Prize last year, wasn't at all surprised to learn Al Gore had won today, for his work on global warming.


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  2007 Global Conference

 

Since its inception in 2003, the IIT Global Alumni Conference has been a premier business event, bringing together industry visionaries, thought leaders, and IIT alumni from across the globe. Nobelists George F. Smoot and Arno Penzias, and Berkeley astronomy professor Alexei Filippenko discuss the many dimensions of cosmology at the Silicon Valley, CA event. View video.

 

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May 2007

Berkeley Lab physicist George Smoot and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, discuss science and politics during the annual Nobel Laureates Capitol Hill Day in Washington, DC.  Dr. Smoot joined four of his 2006 Nobel Prize-winning colleagues to deliver a strong message to the House and Senate about the importance of science and scientific achievement to America's vitality.

For more photos of the Capitol Hill event go here.



(Photo courtesy of Kara Delahunt)


View US Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation website Hearing of the 2006 Nobel Laureates: Science, Technology, and Innovation

 

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Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy collaborated on an adventure story for kids based on science fact rather than science fiction called "George's Secret Key to the Universe."

The story, written by Lucy with scientific direction from her dad, is about a boy who lives next to the world’s greatest scientist and his daughter. Though George’s parents are technophobes, he befriends the scientific neighbors and, with the help of their supercomputer Cosmos, goes on a journey through outer space.

Read an interview with father and daughter literary team here.

 

 

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2006 Nobel Laureates add their names to the Nobel Monument in New York

Photo Gallery at the Nobel Monument Inscription Ceremony

 

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In June 2007, Dr. Smoot attended the inaugural events of the Advanced Institute for Cosmology (IAC) in Mexico. Discussions about creating a cosmology research center with colleagues there culminated in the formation of the new Institute, in addition to planned education and outreach programs. Inaugural events included a press conference announcement with IAC director Axel de la Macorra; science and cultural activities; discussions about opportunities in cosmology and work force development; and visits to Teotihuacan and the National Museum of Anthropology. Smoot's visit and lecture was enthusiastically received by many guests and students that were delighted to have the Nobelist participate in the institute's inauguration. Read about it in Internacional newspaper (in Spanish).

 

BCCP and partner IAC will sponsor an annual cosmology school and workshop on the beach for graduate students and post doctoral scholars:

Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation

Cosmología en la Playa / Cosmology at the Beach

 

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June 2007, Dr. Smoot gave a sold-out lecture at Fermilab on the Relics of Creation: The Big Bang, The COBE Satellite & Cosmic Microwave Background.   View lecture here


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May 2007

XIXèmes Rencontres de Blois - An international conference held in the Château of Blois, in France's Loire Valley.


Matter and Energy in the Universe - from Nucleosynthesis to Cosmology

Program:
The contents of the Universe
Abundance determinations
Primordial nucleosynthesis
Stellar thermonuclear nucleosynthesis
The nucleidic evolution of galaxies
Cosmological cosmic rays, galactic cosmic rays and stellar energetic particles
Dark matter, dark energy: what do we really know, and what can we surmise
The future

Dr. Smoot meets with students at the conference

 

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May 2007 Texas A&M University

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

"Recent advances in observational astronomy have brought a new focus on the potential connections between new fundamental particles and our understanding of their impact on the early universe and its evolution..."

Prof. George Smoot (UC Berkeley) will give a public talk on The Echoes of Creation at Rudder Theater

 

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CERN Courier

April 2007 During a visit to CERN, Dr. Smoot talked to Arnaud Marsollier about his quest to explore the early universe, and how cosmology and particle physics are coming together in a grand crusade. He is seen here photographing the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) particle detector. To read the CERN article on Smoot's visit go here.

To watch a ReaPlayer video (or download the video) of his lecture at CERN go here.

 

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UC Berkeley's 'Tree of Wisdom' featured in Vanity Fair

Turning day to night with artificial lights, the Vanity Fair photo spread features Berkeley Nobel laureates (from left) Yuan T. Lee, Donald Glaser, Daniel McFadden, George Smoot, Charles Townes and Steven Chu, joined by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau.

UC Berkeley's Nobel Prize winners and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau are featured as part of Vanity Fair magazine's "Green Issue" for April.

Read more from UC Berkeley News Center site and watch a video of the shoot here.

 

 

 


(Photo by Todd Eberle/ Vanity Fair)

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Cosmology Roundtable Meeting May 2007

 

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April 2007 The Columbus Dispatch "Nobel-winning physicist returns to Ohio roots" by Mike Lafferty PDF file

March 10, 2007 New York Times  "Out There" by Richard Panek
"Three days after learning that he won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot was talking about the universe..."  PDF file

Image: NASA/ESA/HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI)

March 2007 ScienceMatters@ Berkeley "The Seeds of Structure in the Universe" by Kathleen M. Wong

January 20, 2007 - UC Energy Forum Half a dozen Nobel laureates — including Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu and Physicist George Smoot — met at UC Berkeley to exchange suggestions for battling global warming, including expanding the country's nuclear power program to designing nanotechnology that would mimic the way insects dispose of energy waste.

January 2007 - Do Nobelists live longer? Newsweek article

 

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April 2007 George Smoot, a 1962 graduate of Upper Arlington High School, visited his alma mater on and addressed an auditorium filled with science, physics and mathematics students. Read more here.

 

April 2007 Upper Arlington News, April 2007 "Nobel Prize winner returns home"  PDF

 

August 15, 2006  Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team Wins Gruber Prize

BERKELEY, CA — John Mather, Project Scientist of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite mission, and eighteen members of COBE's Science Working Group, including George Smoot of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have jointly received the 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their ground-breaking studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The COBE experiments not only confirmed that the universe was born in a big bang but shed light on its subsequent structure. Read More.

Original Smoot Group observations with Spitzer Space Telescope greatly improve measurements of cosmic far-IR background. Link: http://www-astro.lbl.gov/~bruce/spitzerlblpage/index.html#phaseII

Amedeo Balbi has written a book on the CMB (in Italiano)

 

Article in Sao Paulo newspaper (in Portuguese)

 

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