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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The Department of Physics<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Cordially invites you and your guest to join us for the<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">53rd Annual Alpheus Smith Lecture<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Wednesday, November 18, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">8:00 P.M.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">131 Hitchcock Hall<br>
2070 Neil Avenue</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">And for a reception prior to the lecture<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">6:30-7:30 P.M.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">4138 Physics Research Building<br>
191 W. Woodruff Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">This year's lecturer is<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Kip Thorne<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Cal Tech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus and Science Advisor and Executive Producer of the movie
<i>“Interstellar”<b><o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Interstellar – Celebrating the Centennial of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity<i>”<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">RSVP for Reception to Shelley Palmer<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<a href="mailto:palmer.14@osu.edu">palmer.14@osu.edu</a>) by November 9, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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