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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The year 2015 is being celebrated around the world as both the centennial of Albert Einstein’s creation of the General Theory of Relativity and the International Year of Light. As part of the 2015 Atlanta Science Festival , the Atlanta Science Tavern and the Georgia Tech Center for Relativistic Astrophysics have partnered to create a celebration to mark this important
anniversary at the historic Academy of Medicine in Midtown Atlanta the evening of Wednesday, March 25.
Using a documentary film and two short lectures, the program will take a look back at how our
current understanding of light has emerged over the last 1,000 years and a look forward at
how an ingenious “gravity telescope” may soon provide us with a completely new way to
observe the Universe and understand its most violent and energetic phenomena.
The evening will conclude with an extended question and answer session that will give you
the opportunity to ask experts those questions about light, gravity, and relativity that you've
always wanted to ask.
This event is a coproduction of the Atlanta Science Tavern and Georgia Tech's School of
Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and is made possible in part by the generous
sponsorship of OFS of Norcross, Georgia, a manufacturer of telecommunications and specialty optical fiber products.
