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The talk is in conjunction with Michigan University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
Katherine Freese is the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin.
Her research spans a wide range in cosmology and astroparticle physics. She has been working to identify the dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe, as well as to build a successful model for the early universe immediately after the Big Bang.
The author of the popular book The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, she has been very active in public outreach, including television, radio, public lectures, podcasts and public panels.
Her many TV appearances include Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and the Discovery Channel's How the Universe Works.
She has given public lectures at TED-X Vienna, the Hayden Planetarium in New York (hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson), and the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, among other places.