Michigan Technological University
Department of Physics

is pleased to announce a colloquium

with

Michael Schubnell

SNAP: Probing Dark Energy in the Accelerating Universe

It has now been firmly established that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, driven by a presently unknown form of "dark energy". The SuperNova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is an international satellite mission dedicated to precisely map out the cosmological expansion history and thereby determine the properties of the dark energy that appears to dominate our universe today. SNAP will study thousands of distant supernovae, each with unprecedented precision, using a 2-meter telescope with a wide field, large area optical-to-near-IR imager and spectrograph. I will give a brief introduction to dark energy cosmology, followed by an overview of the SNAP science goals and design and development status of the SNAP satellite.

Thursday, February 27, 2003

4:00 p.m., Fisher 139

Refreshments will be served

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