Initial contact should be with the Speakers Bureau Office (785) 864-5169, govern@ku.edu, not the individual faculty member.

Barbara Anthony-Twarog, professor, bjat@ku.edu

• Time and sky: The astronomical roots of calendar systems
• Hubble's Bubbles: New views of planetary nebulae

Philip Baringer, professor, baringer@ku.edu

• Current issues in particle physics
• Why science literacy is important

Alice Bean, associate professor, abean@ku.edu

• What are the smallest particles that we know of and how do we see them?
• Why physics is fun and a great career choice
• What are some of the fundamental questions in physics right now and how do we go about answering them?

Dave Besson, associate professor, dbesson@ku.edu

• The RICE Experiment at the South Pole: Construction of a neutrino telescope
• Particle physics at a matter-antimatter collider

Hume Feldman, associate professor, feldman@ku.edu

• From the Big Bang to the future: A modern view of cosmology
• What do we know about the universe and how do we know it?
• The large scale structure of the universe and the peculiar velocities of galaxies.

Adrian Melott, professor, melott@ku.edu

• Will the universe expand forever?
• What happened to the Kansas Science Education Standards?
• Astrophysical causes for mass extinctions: do we live in a cosmic shooting gallery?

Bruce Twarog, professor, twarog@ku.edu

• Helioseismology: What's new under the sun
• The universe at the speed of light
• The end of the universe as we know it