Distinguished Physicist to Speak at UW Oct. 20

The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Wyoming will host University of Arkansas Professor Daniel Kennefick for the inaugural Rebka-Hafele-Einstein Distinguished Lecture Friday, Oct. 20.

Kennefick will discuss “A Brief History of Gravitational Wave Emission” from 3:10-4:10 p.m. in Room 129 of the Classroom Building. His lecture also will be livestreamed via WyoCast. UW President Ed Seidel will provide opening remarks. The UW and Laramie communities are invited to attend.

Kennefick received his Ph.D. in physics from Caltech in 1997. Since 2003, he has been at the Department of Physics at the University of Arkansas.

He is the author of “No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity” from Princeton University Press. He also is the author of a history of gravitational waves called “Traveling at the Speed of Thought” and is the co-author of “An Einstein Encyclopedia.”

Kennefick’s research concentrates on gravitational waves, galactic structure and the history of physics.