The University of Toledo

McMaster Cosmology Lecture Series

The McMaster Lecture Series in Cosmology at the University of Toledo is named in honor of the late Harold McMaster, a Physics & Astronomy benefactor and local entrepreneur who helped found the glass and photovoltaics industry in Toledo, and who also had a deep love of contemplating the origins of the Universe.  The McMaster fellow delivers a large public lecture on forefront cosmology that draws broad audiences from the University and Toledo communities.  

Previous McMaster Lecturers include:

• David Hogg (New York University), 2013 "What and where is the Dark Matter?"
• James Bullock (UC Irvine), 2011
• Alice Shapley (UCLA), 2009
• Josh Frieman (Univ. of Chicago), 2008
• Giovanni Fazio (Harvard), 2006
• Gary Steigman (Ohio State), 2005
• Paul Steinhardt (Princeton), 2004

For details on this year's McMaster Lecture, see the colloquium schedule.