So how did we end up with tickets to the hottest event in Stockholm?

In the 1990s, Peter Garnavich was part of the High-Z Supernova Search Team which used supernova to measure the deceleration parameter. A rival team, headed by Saul Perlmutter, was also trying to measure this parameter using supernova. It was thought at the time that the Universe contained enough matter to slow the expansion of the universe, eventually leading to its collapse. At the january meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 1998, Peter, in a joint press conference with Saul Perlmutter, presented one of the team’s first papers. Both teams had found that, in fact, the universe would expand forever. The finding was front page news in the New York Times. What happened later that year is, of course, Physics history. 

In this compendium of the team’s first six papers, the table of contents reads: