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TITLE:
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
SPEAKER:
Professor Clifford M. Will,
TIME: Thursday Mar. 17, 2005 at 4 PM
PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)
Washington University
Clifford Will is the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics at the
Washington University in St. Louis, and is currently the President of
the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
Professor Will is the author of over 200 scientific, semi-popular, and
popular articles and reviews, and two books: Theory and Experiment in
Gravitational Physics (Cambridge University Press 1981; 2nd Edition,
1993) and Was Einstein Right? (Basic Books, 1986; 2nd Edition 1993). The
latter book won the 1987 American Institute of Physics Science Writing
Award and was selected one of the 200 best books for 1986 by the New
York Times Book Review.
In addition to the usual Physics Department Colloquium, Professor
Will is also giving a Public Lecture the same day at 8:00pm in Pugh
Auditorium of the Benson University Center. The public lecture,
titled "Was Einstein Right", is part of Wake Forest's celebration of
the "2005 World Year of Physics."