Fall Kavli Fulldome Lecture Series

Date: Friday, October 28
Time: 12:00 pm Advance Tickets: $5 Adler Members | $17 General Admission

& 7:30 pm Advance Tickets: $5 Adler Members | $10 General Admission
Location: Grainger Sky Theater

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One hundred years after Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity first predicted the existence of gravitational waves, physicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected these ripples in the fabric of spacetime in September of last year.

For the museum’s fourth Kavli Fulldome Lecture on October 28, MIT Professor, MacArthur Fellow and LIGO member Dr. Nergis Mavalvala will bring this historic discovery to life for general audiences at the Adler Planetarium and domecast to planetariums around the world.

With the help of data visualizations produced by the Adler’s Space Visualization Group, Professor Mavalvala’s lecture will reflect on the century of research that finally confirmed Einstein’s prediction and what gravitational waves may reveal about the earliest moments of our Universe.

This lecture is the largest domecast that the Adler has ever done with the biggest international reach. Some of the countries participating in the domecast include Canada, Columbia, Ghana, Russia, Norway, Scotland, and England with 21 locations confirmed and counting.

At the conclusion of both lectures, there will be a Q&A session in the Grainger Sky Theater. Following the evening lecture and Q&A session, there will be a reception with the speaker in the Clark Family Welcome Gallery.