From Mars to the Multiverse
From Mars to the Multiverse
This unique conference is given for the Diplomatic Club of Geneva.
It is open to the participants of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2014)
held in Geneva from June 30th to July 4th, 2014.
The academic community of the University of Geneva and CERN is also welcome.
The lecture will be preceded by an allocution by the President of the Diplomatic Club, Luzius Wasescha,
and by Prof. Thierry Courvoisier, President of the European Astronomical Society and of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
A cocktail will be served at the end of the event.
Astronomers have made astonishing progress in tracing cosmic history from some mysterious “beginning” nearly 14 billion years ago, and probing the emergence of atoms, galaxies, stars and planets. Spacecrafts have visited other planets and moons of our Solar System, beaming back pictures of varied and distinctive worlds. Looking further afield, we are understanding galaxies and their nuclei in fuller detail, and can study their evolution by detecting objects all the way back to the time of galaxy formation.
This illustrated lecture will address such issues and outline how future instruments will yield further advances. |
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. |
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