Astronomers believe our universe began in a Big Bang, and is expanding around us. On Wednesday, June 3, as part of PI’s public lecture series, Brian Schmidt will describe the life of the universe that we live in, and how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe’s history back more than 13 billion years.
Brian Schmidt is a Federation Fellow at The Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory. In 1994 he formed the HighZ SN Search team, a group of 20 astronomers on 5 continents who used distant exploding stars to trace the expansion of the Universe back in time. This group’s discovery of an accelerating universe was named Science Magazine’s ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ for 1998.
Prof. Schmidt’s lecture, entitled “The Universe from Beginning to End” will be held Wednesday, June 3 at 7:00 pm in Waterloo, Ontario.
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