Event Details 

Advances in Science (series)
Thursdays, 10:00–11:30am 
January 14, 2021 – February 18, 2021
$35/series or $10/day pass

Amazing advances have been made in science over the past several years, making use of new ways of looking at our universe and understanding our place in
it.  Astronomy now includes gravitational wave observatories, along with radio, light, and x-ray telescopes.  We once could only speculate about planets
outside our solar system, but now we’ve found more than 4,000 exoplanets and begun to characterize them.  Recent fossil finds and genetics are letting us
follow the evolution of early humans as they spread out from Africa.  We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human actions are leaving
significant marks in the geological record.  The lecture series will delve into many of the exciting advances.

The lecture "Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Listening to the Universe" on January 21st is sponsored by Susan Fisher.

The lecture "Human Dispersal(s) from Africa" on February 11th is being sponsored by Rebecca Van Dyke in honor of her father, Henry Van Dyke, a 13-year
member of the OLLI Lectures committee.