Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race

About this Event Modern astronomy has succeeded remarkably well in explaining the cosmic origins of the human race — how the Galaxy was assembled, how the Sun and Earth were formed, and where the precious chemical elements that comprise our planet came from. For the first time in history, the human race is poised to […]

The Music of the Cosmos

Professor Roberto Trotta Roberto Trotta is Visiting Gresham Professor of Cosmology and Professor of Astrostatistics at Imperial College, London. For more information about him, please visit his website: http://robertotrotta.com/ Roberto Trotta’s lecture series are as follows: 2020/21 The Unexpected Universe 2019/20 The Nature of Reality All lectures by the Visiting Professor of Cosmology can be […]

The Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Marios Kalomenopoulos https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/marios-kalomenopoulos https://www.linkedin.com/in/marios-kalomenopoulos-710a837a/?originalSubdomain=gr The detection of gravitational waves some years ago, opened a new window to the Universe, created a media fuss and gave a Nobel Prize for Physics! But what is the story behind this discovery? What about the discovery claims of the 60s? And where does Glasgow fit into this mystery? This […]

The Life Cycle of Galaxies

Dr Romeel Davé https://www.linkedin.com/in/romeel-dave-885b59/ Dr Davé is a theoretical astrophysicist who uses supercomputer simulations to study how the visible Universe evolves from the Big Bang until today. https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/romeel-dave https://www.scientia.global/dr-romeel-dave-putting-universe-computer/ Our most powerful telescopes reveal a universe filled with galaxies that come in a dizzying range of shapes, sizes, colours, and environments. How this diverse population […]

A bit of a stretch? Liquid crystal elastomers

Prof Helen Gleeson OBE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gleeson Helen Frances Gleeson OBE FInstP is a British physicist who specialises in soft matter and liquid crystals. She is Cavendish Professor and Head of the School of Physics at the University of Leeds. https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/staff/4108/professor-helen-f-gleeson A talk by Professor Helen Gleeson, OBE. Cavendish Professor of Physics and Head of Physics and […]

Protecting the planet – Myths and Facts

Professor Averil MacDonald https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-averil-macdonald-obe-dsc-duniv-frsa-332aa93/?originalSubdomain=uk https://wisdom.rhul.ac.uk/ama-with-professor-averil-macdonald/ Many of us are keen to do our bit to protect the planet and have been influenced by people like David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough (below left) Sir David Frederick Attenborough born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and natural historian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg (above right) Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman […]

Jurassic Sized Headaches in the Field

Join Prof. Phil Manning on a journey from the ‘fun’ of excavating dinosaurs to the excitement of studying them at the synchrotron. Professor of Natural History (University of Manchester), Scientist in Residence (The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis), Ambassador (The Earth Project). https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/phillip-manning(39cf2072-68d5-4763-b78e-5e099f20e8c6).html https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-phillip-manning-64a71212/?originalSubdomain=uk https://twitter.com/dinoimpact?lang=en http://dinosaursabbatical.blogspot.com/ https://youtu.be/_vaQyVbbku8

Making the Solar Orbiter

Jessica Marshall https://spacem14.imanengineer.org.uk/profile/jessicamarshall https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-marshall-84647989/?originalSubdomain=uk Jessica Marshall is the Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer on the Solar Orbiter team at Airbus and described how the Solar Orbiter was built. This probe will travel inside the orbit of Mercury and give us our best view to date of the heliosphere, the giant bubble of space around the Sun […]

Growing Supermassive Black Holes

Dr James Aird https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/james-aird We now know that supermassive black holes, with masses of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, are found at the centres of most galaxies (including our own galaxy, the Milky Way). But where do they come from and how do they get so big? This talk described […]

Aristotle

Professor Edith Hall https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-edith-hall/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/edith-hall http://edithhall.co.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hall https://twitter.com/edithmayhall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.linkedin.com/in/edith-hall-87217212/?originalSubdomain=uk Professor Hall is Visiting Gresham Professor in Classics. She is a British scholar of classics, specialising in Ancient Greek Literature and cultural history. She is also Professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at Kings College London. From 2017-2018, she was also […]

helen the hare

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