Sonoma State University
November 15, 2004

“light Brings Us News of the Universe...”

Professor Emeritus Tony Siegman
Stanford University

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Professor Emeritus Tony Siegman of Stanford University will describe how the striking phrase in the title—the opening words of a 1931 Christmas Lecture on astronomy by Sir William Bragg for the Royal Institution of London—might be extended today to include recent advances in science and technology made possible by lasers and fiber optics.