Bullitt
Lecture: Thu Oct 20, 2022
Speaker:
Dr. Karan Jani (Vanderbilt)
When: 6:30pm,
Where:
Gheens Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium)
Parking: Some nearby
parking may be available - details to be announced.
Other parking (charges
apply) is available in the Speed Art Museum parking deck or
in the
parking lot at Fourth St. & Cardinal Blvd, beside PNC
Bank.
Listening to the
Dark Universe: Gravity Waves
We will record the lecture for our talk archive.
The
Physics
& Astronomy Department’s Bullitt
Lecture is a free event aimed at the general
public. Since
2001, the Physics & Astronomy Department’s
Bullitt Lecture has presented a
distinguished astrophysicist to a Louisville
audience in the Gheens
Science
Hall and Rauch
Planetarium. Gale Christianson,
Hubble's biographer at Indiana State,
planetary expert Hal Weaver, stellar
astrophysicists James
Kaler of U. Illinois,
C. R. O'Dell of Vanderbilt and Caty Pilachowski
of Indiana U, cosmologists
Fang Li Zhi of Arizona,
J. Richard Gott of Princeton, Alan
Dressler of the
Carnegie Observatories and lunar experts
Ferenc Pavlics of GM and the Apollo project and Phillip
Abel of NASA have been Bullitt Lecturers.
College and high
school students, teachers, and many others from
the community interested in
the impact and excitement that astrophysics has
generated have attended Bullitt Lectures in
large numbers. The
public and members of the University community
are warmly invited!
The
Lecture is endowed through a grant from the family
of William
Marshall Bullitt, the
Solicitor
General of the United States under President
William Howard Taft. Here is
a brief
biography and description of his connection to
the University of Louisville.
Several of the 2006-2008 popular and Bullitt lectures
are available in streaming (.asx) format in the
UL
astronomy talk archive.
Many of the later Bullitt Lectures (from
2009 onward) are linked at the Louisville Astro talk
archive here.
Posters for all of the current and previous Bullitt
Lectures are available:
2001
Gale
Christianson,
"Edwin
Hubble: An Astronomer's Life"
2002
Fred
Espenak,
"Solar
Eclipses and Mysteries of the Sun"
2003
James
Kaler,
"The
Life and Death of Stars"
2004
Fang
Li
Zhi,
"Dark Energy in the Universe"
2005
J.
Richard
Gott,
"A Map of the Universe"
2006
Alan
Dressler,
"Galaxies,
Stars, Planets and Life: the Birth of the Modern
Universe"
Dr.
Dressler was interviewed on Louisville's
WFPL (NPR) radio on April 20, 2006 on State of Affairs,
which has an archive edition of the
radio interview.
2007
C.R.
O'Dell,
"Creating
the Hubble Space Telescope"
2008
Caty
Pilachowski,
"The
Star Cities of the Milky Way"
flier
Dr.
Pilachowski was interviewed on
Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on October
29, 2008 on State of
Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio
interview.
2009
Ferenc
Pavlics
and
Phillip Abel, "40 Years: Lunar Exploration"
flier
Mr. Pavlics
and Dr. Abel were interviewed on
Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on October
8, 2009 on State of
Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio
interview.
2010
Don York, "The History of the Telescope and Its Relation to Culture"
The
Louisville
Courier-Journal
wrote a piece
about the lecture
in its Oct.
6,
2010 edition.
poster
2011
Linda Spilker,
"Cassini-Huygens explores the Saturn System:
Recent Discoveries and Science Highlights"
poster
2012
Kris Stanek,
"Measuring the Size and Age of the Universe" poster
Interview
on WFPL-NPR "Here and Now", 11 Oct 2012
2013 Virginia Trimble, "Blurring the Boundaries Among
Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy:
The Moseley and Bohr Centeneries" poster
2014
Rogier Windhorst, "The James Webb Space Telescope", poster
article
on WFPL-NPR, 16 Oct 2014
2015 Hal Weaver, "Exploring the Solar System's Third
Zone" (results from the Pluto New Horizons and Comet 67P
Rosetta missions) poster YouTube
video (preliminary, undergoing edits)
2016 Fred Espenak, "The Great American Total Solar
Eclipse of 2017"
2017 Candice Hansen, "JunoCam: Pictures of Jupiter
from a new Perspective"
2018 Rocky Kolb, "The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark
Matter and Dark Energy"
2019 Bob Williams, "Probing the Universe with the Hubble
Space Telescope"
2020 Tim Dowling, title to be filled in
2021 Nathan De Lee, "Where is Everybody? The
Search for Life in our Solar System and Beyond"
2022 Karan Jani, "Listening to the Dark Universe:
Gravity Waves" partial
YouTube video
Links to
other Bullitt Lectures and Bullitt book
collections:
Bullitt
Lecture in Mathematics
Bullitt
Lecture in Fine Arts
William
Marshall
Bullitt
Collection
of Rare Mathematics and Astronomy Books
More
on
the Bullitt Collection of Books at UofL