Join the Chicago Astronomical Society for their bi-monthly meeting at the Adler Planetarium. Dr. Shane L. Larson will present a talk called, ‘Black Holes & Gravitational Waves: LIGO’s new view of the Cosmos’. Dr. Larson is a research associate professor of physics at Northwestern University and is also an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium. He works in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, and contributes regularly to a public science blog at writescience.wordpress.com. Follow his work via Twitter with the handle: @sciencejedi .
The event starts at 6:30 pm on Friday, April 8th with a pizza & soup ‘meet & greet’, followed by Dr. Larson’s presentation at 7:15 pm.
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