Stalking Dark Energy and the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe

Saul Perlmutter is a professor in Berkeley's Department of Physics and a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1981 and his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1986. He leads the Supernova Cosmology Project, an international collaboration of research teams from seven countries measuring the expansion history of the universe. He has addressed the cosmological constant, dark energy, supernovae, pulsars, gravitational lenses, massive compact halo objects, and advanced detector systems for astrophysics in more than 100 papers.