Monday, April 124:00 PM, Room 701 Rudder Tower Robert KirshnerHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics“The Extravagant Universe”

Monday, April 128:00 PM, Rudder Theater Joseph SilkOxford University“The Big Bang”

Tuesday, April 137:30 PM, Room 601 Rudder Tower Alex FilippenkoUniversity of California at Berkeley"Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic Antigravity"

Wednesday, April 146:00 PM, Room 601 Rudder Tower Neta BahcallPrinceton University“The Cosmic Triangle”

Thursday, April 157:30 PM, Room 601 Rudder TowerMario LivioSpace Telescope Science Institute“Beauty in a Dark Universe”

Friday, April 167:30 PM, Room 601 Rudder TowerJohn KormendyUniversity of Texas“Supermassive Black Holes”

The public is invited totalks by six of the world’s leading astronomers

on the remarkable recent discoveries in cosmology.

April 12-16, 2004Rudder TowerTexas A&M University

Type Ia supernovae reveal the accelerating universe.

Variations in temperature of the cosmic background radiation yield the age, geometry, and other features of the universe.

Sky surveys like the Sloan probe the origins of galaxies and the enormous clustering of galaxies.

Credit and copyright for images, from top: Adam Riess (STScI) et al., NASA; WMAP Science Team, NASA; Sloan Digital Sky Survey Team, NASA, NSF, DOE; W. Couch (University of New South Wales), R. Ellis (Cambridge University), and NASA; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team.

For updates and latest information, see theconference website:

http://cosmology.tamu.eduConference chair: Roland E. Allen, allen@tamu.edu

Gravitational lensing produces the arcs seen here, and provides information on galaxies even more distant than the extremely massive cluster in the foreground.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field probes to distances near the edge of the observable universe, and to times near the universe’s beginning.

The technical program for the Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology will take place in Room 701 of Rudder Tower, on the Texas A&M campus.

Each morning session will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. (on April 12-16) and end at 12:30 p.m. Each afternoon session will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m., and end at 6:30 p.m. (or a slightly earlier time, depending on the day of the week).

Sponsored by the George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics