UNC-CH Chancellor Carol Folt welcomed Stephen Hawking on Monday before he delivered a lecture to kick off the Hawking Radiation Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference is co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and the Julian Schwinger Foundation. UNC Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton initiated and organized the conference. The purpose of the conference is to discuss whether singularities exist in black holes and the role that Hawking radiation may play in their existence. Read the full article about the Chancellor’s remarks and the UNC delegation to the event.
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