MoCA Public Lecture - The Accelerating Universe

Event Details

Date:

15 February from 6:00 pm — 7:00 pm

Venue:

South One Lecture Theatre

Campus:

Clayton

Open to:

All

Cost:

Free

Website:

http://moca.monash.edu/outreach/

Categories:

• Public lectures

Description:

The 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Professor Brian Schmidt, will speak on his ground-breaking discovery that not only is the universe getting bigger, it's expanding at an ever-increasing rate. 

The lecture is the first in a series presented by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) and is aimed at interested members of the public, who can ask questions after the talk.

The lecture is free and no registration is necessary.

More about Professor Schmidt's talk:

In 1998, two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70 per cent of the cosmos is contained in a previously unknown form of matter, called Dark Energy.

The 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Brian Schmidt, leader of the High-Redshift Supernova Search Team, will describe this discovery and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe's history back more than 13 billion years, leading them to ponder the ultimate fate of the cosmos.

Event Contact

Name

Samantha Penny

E-Mail

Samantha.Penny@monash.edu

Phone

+61 3 990 53694

Organisation

Monash Centre for Astrophysics