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The Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.
As part of the Thomas Gold Lecture Series, Ruderman, the Centennial Professor of Physics at Columbia, will speak on "Neutron Stars," Thursday, Oct. 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. The public is invited.
Ruderman also will deliver a joint astronomy and physics department colloquium on "Pulsar Evolution" in Schwartz Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 5, at 4:30 p.m.
Ruderman is a theoretical astrophysicist and pioneer in the science of neutron stars and pulsars and also has contributed to the understanding of elementary particle physics.
The Thomas Gold Lecture Series is sponsored by the astronomy department and the College of Arts and Sciences in honor of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy. The series brings a noted astronomer to Cornell each year for public lectures and colloquia with faculty and students.