🌌 Astronomy for All: The universe from beginning to end
Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Professor Brian Schmidt will take the audience on a cosmic journey from the Big Bang to the distant future of our Universe. In this accessible lecture for non-specialist talk, the 2011 Physics laureate explains how science has pieced together the 13-billion-year history of the cosmos — what we know, how we know it, and the mysteries that remain.
What to expect:
🔠Cosmic history from a Nobel laureate — Hear the story of the Universe’s expansion, dark energy, and accelerating cosmos from Brian Schmidt, who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
🎓 Science for non-specialists — Enjoy a clear, engaging explanation of cosmology’s biggest questions — the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, and the ultimate fate of the Universe — presented without jargon by one of the field’s leading figures
🏛️ Historic venue, modern science — Experience the lecture in the stunning Sohmen Concert Hall within the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, part of Green Templeton College’s Astronomy for All series connecting the college with Oxford Astrophysics