题目：Cosmic Evolution: Nine Billion Years in 60 Minutes

报告人：Sandra Faber 教授（UCSC, 美国科学院院士，美国国家科学奖章获得者）

时间：5月18日晚19:30

地点：海韵教学楼304教室

A hundred years ago, astronomers did not know about the Big Bang, or
that our Milky Way is a galaxy in a vast sea of billions of other
galaxies. Since then, a host of powerful telescopes in space and on
Earth have revealed our cosmic past -- how the Galaxy was formed, how
the Sun and Earth were born, and how the very atoms that comprise our
bodies and planet were created. Dr. Faber will provide a lay person’s
guide to the discoveries of past instruments and what even more
powerful instruments, such as China's Thirty-Meter Telescope, will
reveal in future. Her visual aids will leave the audience with the
feeling that they have personally traveled through space and glimpsed
distant cosmic objects in breath-taking detail.

The supreme challenge is now before us: will we use this gift of cosmic
knowledge wisely, or will we squander it? What can our species
accomplish with wise use of the resources on our planet? Our growing
cosmic understanding has finally raised the most profound question
ever faced by our species -- where is humanity headed over cosmic time?