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Dark matter and dark energy pervade the Universe. What are they? How do we know they are there? How might they be linked? What might be dark gravity?
In this Friends of Imperial College lecture, Professor Alan Heavens will explain how the Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology is going about answering fundamental questions about the universe.
Speaker biography
Professor Alan HeavensProfessor Alan Heavens is Director of the Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Astronomical Society.
He is a member of the Planck and Euclid consortia and works on theoretical and statistical studies of cosmology, in large-scale structure, gravitational lensing, the cosmic microwave background, and galaxy spectra, and in the past has worked on particle acceleration in shock waves.
Professor Heavens is founding director of Blackford Analysis, a spin-out company from the University of Edinburgh which uses massive data compression techniques to analyse rapidlylarge data sets like those from medical scanners.
Tickets must be purchased in advance via the Friends of Imperial College website – THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT