TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Rajan Gupta, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will present the lecture, “Energy for All in the 21st Century,” Thursday, Oct.18, at 7:30 p.m. in room 127 of the Biology Building on The University of Alabama campus.
Gupta’s lecture is the first in the Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change lecture series sponsored by UA’s College of Arts and Sciences and its department of physics and astronomy.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Gupta’s lecture will focus on the challenges that are ahead and technological changes needed to actualize the capability of fossil fuels, nuclear energy and alternatives including hydro, solar and wind for energy use. Gupta will conclude by explaining why the United States should lead the movement to provide clean, economical energy for all.
In addition to his research on energy security, Gupta has been producing educational items on disease prevention, health care and the environment. He has specifically studied HIV/AIDS in India and its ramifications for development and security.
Gupta, a theoretical physicist, began his career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1985 as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, and he began serving as a staff scientist in 1988. He has served as program manager for high energy physics at LANL since 2000.
Gupta received his master’s degree in physics at the University of Delhi in Delhi, India and his doctoral degree in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982. He taught undergraduate courses in physics at CALTECH from 1977 to 1982 and at Northeastern University from 1982 to 1985. He also taught a graduate course in physics at CALTECH in 1991.
On Wednesday, Oct.17, Gupta will also give a graduate student colloquium in the UA department of physics and astronomy.
The Alabama Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Change series is a two year-long program of lectures, exhibits, forums and discussions that will bring to campus and the Tuscaloosa community national experts to address the science, politics, economics and ethics of energy sustainability, climate change and its related social impacts.
The College of Arts and Sciences is Alabama’s largest liberal arts college and the University’s largest division with 360 faculty and 7,600 students.
Contact
Carmen Brown, College of Arts and Sciences, College Relations, 205/348-8539, brown109@bama.ua.edu