July 1st, 2012
Dark Energy: From Einstein to the Nobel Prize
Presenter: Dr. George Djorgovski
MICA Director, Professor of Astronomy and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech.
An historical review of the theories and astronomical observations which led to the idea of Dark Energy.
First presented in Second Life in October, 2011.
The original PowerPoint slides are available here: http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/Dark_Energy:_From_Einstein_to_the_Nobel_Prize.
Questions and comments posted by July 15, 2012 will be answered by Dr. Djorgovski
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