Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr. is a theoretical physicist who uses mathematics to explore the fundamental symmetries that are revealed when we seek to answer…

This year’s conference title, “The Universe at Its Limits,” implies a notion of boundaries—spatial and temporal, beginning and end. As a result, we inevitably consider…

Much of the most exciting research being done today feeds our innate human curiosity. It seeks to answer the larger questions always looming in the…

Because it takes time for light to travel to Earth from the reaches of space, the farther one looks, the earlier in history one sees.…

Dr. Alex Filippenko has been involved with some of the most exciting and impactful observational astronomy studies of the last 30 years. He and his coworkers…

What are the basic building blocks of matter? And how does the macroscopic universe as we encounter it today arise from their interactions? Our current…