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Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/03/2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
University of Illinois Lincoln Hall Theatre
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Founded in 1997 and named in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Icko Iben Jr., the Icko Iben Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series brings a noted astronomer to campus to highlight some of the latest developments in astronomy in a forum geared for the general public.
Title: Signals from the Beginning of the Universe
Abstract: The night sky is fascinating to humans, giving us a window on space beyond our home on Earth. I will describe how we have come to better understand our Universe, and some of the big questions about space and time that we are trying to answer. By studying distant light coming from the earliest moments in time, I will talk about our quest to understand the Big Bang and to find out what the fundamental ingredients of the Universe are, including the mysterious invisible dark matter.
Distinguished Speaker: Professor Jo Dunkley’s research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. She has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, the Rosalind Franklin award and the New Horizons prize for her work on the cosmic microwave background, and shared the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP team.
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