Frontiers of Science Lecture Series

The COLLEGE OF SCIENCE and THE COLLEGE OF MINES AND EARTH SCIENCES will present FOUR lectures during the 2009-2010 academic year! The Frontiers lecture series features eminent scientists and researchers from across the country who are exploring the latest frontiers in their fields.

All FOS lectures are free and open to the public, although tickets are required and seating is limited. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology building (lower campus, near University Bookstore). Click to see map: Aline W. Skaggs Biology map.

NOTE: PREVIOUS FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE EVENTS CAN BE VIEWED
AND/OR DOWNLOADED AS A .WMV FILE HERE: FOS VIDEOS

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Cloaking: Where Science Meets Science Fiction
Graeme W. Milton, distinguished professor of mathematics, University of Utah

 

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University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method that someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.

"We have shown that it is numerically possible to cloak objects of any shape that lie outside the cloaking devices, not just from single-frequency waves, but from actual pulses generated by a multi-frequency source," says Graeme Milton.

Free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Call (801) 581-6958 to obtain tickets. Limit 4. Tickets are will-call at the event.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Search for Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars
Ronald L. Walsworth, senior physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

 

<Ron Walsworth>Free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Call (801) 581-6958 to obtain tickets. Limit 4. Tickets are will-call at the event.