Dr George F. Smoot, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in physics, will visit the COEP campus next week to deliver a lecture on The History and Fate of the Universe and interact with students and faculty. He will also deliver a colloquium on The Cosmic Microwave Background during his visit on March 4 and 5.

The Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series brings students together with some of the world's most advanced minds to inspire and motivate the development of the leading scientists of the future. The India initiative was launched in December, 2007 with the visit of Dr Sheldon Glashow, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics, to the Visveswarya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka.

Honeywell will also host an Orkut Community providing students a chance to read previous Nobel Laureate Lectures that were held in the USA, Shanghai and Belgaum last year.

Dr Smoot is an author of more than 200 science papers and is also co-author (with Keay Davidson) of the popularised scientific book "Wrinkles in Time" (Harper, 1994) which elucidates cosmology and the COBE discovery. Currently, Dr Smoot conducts research in astrophysics and observational cosmology, and is most famous for his research on the cosmic background radiation.