| The University Sunrise Rotary Club program this week will feature a presentation by Dr. Bruce Balick, Professor Emeritus in Astronomy at the University of Washington. Dr. Balick’s topic is “Beyond Space and Time.” Dr. Balick has been so popular with the Club that this will the third time he has addressed us. The Zoom connection opens at 7 a.m. and the meeting will run from 730 a.m. until 830 a.m. No reservation is required: just click here Thursday morning! |
From a cosmic perspective, the Earth and the entire Universe is but a pebble in the vast ocean of possible realities. How do we know that? How far an we see? Where do we come from? Were we the long-debated Something from Nothing? These are the simple yet profound questions (not all with answers) that drive the quest to probe our cosmic past and to predict our cosmic future.
Balick joined the UW Astronomy Department in 1975. Subsequently he served as its chair, became active in faculty governance, and participated in the design of new instrumentation for Hubble. Since his retirement in 2014, Balick continues to publish research papers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and to supervise astronomy undergraduates in research and public outreach.
He is a coauthor on a research paper based on one of the newly released images from the James Webb telescope.
