Steven Manly Visions of the Multiverse

Join us as we Welcome Dr. Steven Manly. Equipped with a PhD in high-energy physics from Columbia University, Professor Steven Manly moved up the faculty ranks at Yale University before accepting his current position as a professor at the University of Rochester. He has been named the N.Y. State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and received the 2007 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award by the American Association of Physics Teachers. As a popular speaker, Manly talks about particle physics, cosmology and relativity at conferences, alumni symposia and to high school and middle school students. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals. What are the different concepts of the multiverse and how are they related? How do we determine if we live in a multiverse or in multiple multiverses? How do religious concepts of the afterlife and popular ideas based on the Law of Attraction relate to the scientific visions of the multiverse? Does the “big bang” idea of inflationary cosmology contribute to the theory of multiverse? How are universes separated in time? Does the dark matter filling our universe form a separate universe that we cannot perceive?