Our aspirations surrounding space exploration while ambitious and exciting are constrained by physics. The unalterable laws of physics, from the quantum realm to those governing spacetime itself, along with human physiology and psychology are the guardrails constraining our dreams and possibilities. This Webcast will explore the central aspects of what might be possible (and impossible); how our science and technology will need to evolve to push further within the boundaries of these rules…and the things that simply (at least for now) may be beyond our reach.
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Suketu Bhavsar is Professor Emeritus in Physics & Astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP). He was born and grew up in India. After graduating from IIT Mumbai, he came to USA for graduate studies and received his PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University. His research contributions have been in cosmology, discovering the fractal hierarchy of galaxy clustering in the universe and creating statistical pattern recognition tools to quantify the large-scale filamentary, “web-like,” structure of visible matter in the universe. He has received the Provost, Alumni, and Dean's awards for his teaching.
Bhavsar has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Director of the Kellogg Honors College at CPP and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. He held prior research positions at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, University of Sussex in Great Britain, and Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, as well as visiting positions at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and the Indian Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.
MODERATOR: Kris Kimel is the Founder of Humanity in Deep Space™ and co-founder of the commercial space company Space Tango.
