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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 12/8/12 | Cosmic Rhapsody: From the Echo of the Big Bang to the Orchestration of the Universe | Speaker: Heidi Wu
- SMP 12/1/12 | Gravitational Lensing: Nature's Largest Telescopes | Speaker: Keren Sharon
- SMP 11/10/12 | The Sun as a Star | Speaker: Alicia Aarnio
- SMP 11/3/12 | Volcanoes and Precious Metal Deposits: What is the Connection? | Speaker: Adam Simon
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- SMP 10/20/12 | How Flexible Bodies Move and Interact in Fluids | Speaker: Silas Alben
- SMP 10/13/12 | The Physics Behind the Music | Speaker: James Liu
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Saturday, December 1, 2012
12:00 AM
170 & 182 Dennison Building
Gravitational lensing deflects light from distant sources when it travels close to massive objects, such as clusters of galaxies. Some of these clusters become very effective lenses, magnifying the images of the galaxies behind them, and allow us to see galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to observe even with the biggest telescopes on earth or in space. In this talk, Dr. Sharon will show some examples of spectacular gravitational lenses and explain how she and her colleagues use them to study the Universe when it was a fraction of its current age.
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