Professor Wendy Freedman and Professor Michael Turner facilitated a discussion on the expansion of the universe, dark energy, and dark matter, with further discussion on Professor Freedman's work on the Giant Magellan Telescope project in Chile!
Professor Wendy Freedman, astronomer, former director of Carnegie Observatories, and TEDGlobal speaker, will be addressing her topic of expertise of the observational side of cosmology. Freedman became world-renowned more than a decade ago for leading a team of 30 astronomers who carried out the Hubble Key Project to measure the current expansion rate of the universe, and is now leading the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
We will also be joined in conversation by award winning UChicago professor Michael Turner, a cosmologist who coined the term "dark energy." Professor Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field that combines together cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments of creation, and he has made contributions to inflationary cosmology, particle dark matter and structure formation, the theory of big bang nucleosynthesis, and the nature of dark energy.
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Organizing team
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Putter Thepkanjana
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Sahiba Borisuth
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