Worlds Without End

Dr. Steffen will talk about NASA's Kepler mission and the discovery of planets orbiting distant stars.

Dr. Steffen is an Assistant Professor of physics at UNLV.  He has worked in a variety of fields including dark matter, dark energy, gravitation, exoplanets, and airline passenger boarding.  Dr. Steffen was a scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, a research faculty at Northwestern University, and was a member of the science team for NASA’s Kepler mission.  For that mission he contributed to the discovery and characterization of hundreds of distant planets.

El evento se ofrecerá en español.