Hutton Honors College

Discussion Lunch with Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall
Author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

• Tuesday, March 6, 2007
• 12:30-2 p.m.
• Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Do we inhabit a three-dimensional universe floating in a four-dimensional space? Could an invisible universe in another dimension explain phenomena we see today in our world? Join us for a conversation about these and other intriguing questions with Lisa Randall, one of the world's leading physicists and a professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University, where she studies particle physics, cosmology, and competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality. Her most recent work involves the study of extra dimensions of space, and she recently completed a book entitled Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, which was included in the New York Times 100 notable books of 2005. She has won countless awards and recognitions, including being noted as "one of the most promising theoretical physicists of her generation" in Newsweek's "Who's Next in 2006." She was recently named winner of the 2007 Julius Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society for her seminal work in particle physics and cosmology, and for her "tireless efforts to engage both specialists and non-specialists" regarding advances in these fields. Co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

Randall will be on campus to deliver the Konopinski Lecture for the Department of Physics. Her lecture, "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions," is scheduled for Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., at Whittenberger Auditorium (IMU). Immediately following the lecture will be a public reception in the Faculty Club at the IMU.

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