Tuesday, November 25, 2014Columbia Alumni Association has invited all Ivy alumni to join them at an upcoming November 25th event
WHAT: Dr. Katherine Freese talk and book signing: "The Cosmic Cocktail"
WHO: Ivy Alumni and Guests
WHEN: Nov. 25, 6-9 p.m.
WHERE: Schoolcraft College VisTaTech Center; 18600 Haggerty Rd; Livonia, MI 48152
RSVP: $15 per person, register and CLICK to pay here
The Columbia Alumni Association of Michigan invites you to enjoy a special evening with Dr. Katherine Freese,
who will be talking about and signing copies of her new book, The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter.
Dr. Freese is the George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan And one of the world’s
leading researchers into the mystery of dark matter. Her research is in the area of theoretical cosmology,
at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics.
She received her BA in Physics from Princeton University (as far as she knows, she was the second woman
to major in Physics at Princeton); her MA in Physics in 1981 from Columbia University; and her PhD in Physics
in 1984 from the University of Chicago.
Currently in a three-year position as Director of Nordita, the Institute for Theoretical Physics Of the
Nordic countries in Stockholm, she will shed light on her research on dark matter and the origins of the universe.
