The Boulder Cosmology Group meets 6PM to 8PM for reading discussions on the third Monday of the month. All meetings are free and open to the public.
Dates and locations are subject to change. Changes from the normal pattern are noted below.

See http://www.sackett.net/cosmologyAll.htm for a list of all meetings of the Cosmology Group since it began in 2003.

2025   Third Mondays: Book discussions are via Zoom until the library stays open until a least 8PM.

January 20, 2025 Book Discussion: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll. Chapter 5 through Chapter 8.

February 17, 2025 Book Discussion: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll. Chapter 9 through Chapter 12.

March 17, 2025 Book Discussion: Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction by Ross H. McKenzie (176 pages).

April 21, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Physics by Adam Kay (Parts I through V).

May 19, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Physics by Adam Kay (Parts VI through XI).

June 16, 2025 Book Discussion: Escape from Shadow Physics by Adam Kay (Parts XII through XV).

July 21, 2025 No meeting in July.

August 18, 2025 Book Discussion: Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt (Introduction through “Circuits”).

September 15, 2025 Book Discussion: Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt (“NAND is a Universal Gate” to end).

October 20, 2025 Book Discussion: A Crack in Everything: Black Holes by Marcus Chown (Chapters 1 through 5).

November 17, 2025 Book Discussion: A Crack in Everything: Black Holes by Marcus Chown (Chapters 6 through 10).
Reference: CU's 53rd Gamow Lecture: Dr. Andrea Ghez, “Supermassive Black Holes”.

December 15, 2025 Book Discussion: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll (Parts One and Two).

For more information, e-mail Bill (bill4gb AT gmail DOT com) or call him at 3.449.4136.

This is http://www.sackett.net/cosmologySchedule2025.htm, last updated February 16, 2026.