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May 4, 1998

the Age of the Universe

Dr. Michael Bolte
UCO/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Michael Bolte of the UCO/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz will describe our current understanding of stars and their life cycles and explain how stellar observations can be used to set limits on the values of the expansion rate and average density of the universe.