Cutting-edge science and a participant’s view of one of the world’s most high-profile ceremonies will be combined in an illustrated talk on Wednesday, Feb. 9, by Nobel Laureate David Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara.

Gross, who came to UCSB in 1997, will talk on “Inside the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Ceremony and the Science” at the Lobero Theatre at 8 p.m. Admission is $19 and tickets can be reserved by calling 963-07661.

The theoretical physicist, who shared last year’s Nobel in physics for explaining the strong force within the atom’s nucleus, will share his adventures in the abstract realm of scientific discovery and the glittering reality of Stockholm.