{"386571":{"#nid":"386571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"A Celebration of Light, Gravity, and Einstein","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe year 2015 is being celebrated around the world as both the centennial of Albert Einstein\u2019s 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\u003Cbr \/\u003Eanniversary at the historic Academy of Medicine in Midtown Atlanta the evening of Wednesday, March 25.\u003Cbr \/\u003EUsing a documentary film and two short lectures, the program will take a look back at how our\u003Cbr \/\u003Ecurrent understanding of light has emerged over the last 1,000 years and a look forward at\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehow an ingenious \u201cgravity telescope\u201d may soon provide us with a completely new way to\u003Cbr \/\u003Eobserve the Universe and understand its most violent and energetic phenomena.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe evening will conclude with an extended question and answer session that will give you\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethe opportunity to ask experts those questions about light, gravity, and relativity that you\u0027ve\u003Cbr \/\u003Ealways wanted to ask.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis event is a coproduction of the Atlanta Science Tavern and Georgia Tech\u0027s School of\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhysics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and is made possible in part by the generous\u003Cbr \/\u003Esponsorship of OFS of Norcross, Georgia, a manufacturer of telecommunications and specialty optical fiber products.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Celebration of Light, Gravity, and Einstein"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2015-03-11 09:55:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:48:39","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-25T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-25T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-25T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-25 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-26 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-26 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:deirdre@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edeirdre@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}