Faculty of Science & Engineering 2025 Dean’s Lecture; Nobel Laureate, Prof Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS FTSE
When: Monday, 14 April 2025, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Lecture Theatre 2, TSI building, North Campus, Maynooth University
Topic: ‘The Universe from Beginning to End’.
Maynooth University is delighted to welcome Nobel Laureate, Prof Brian Schmidt, AC FAA FRS FTSE, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University to the campus to give the 2025 Faculty of Science and Engineering Dean's Lecture.
For his work on the accelerating universe, Prof Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. Raised in Montana and Alaska, USA, Prof Schmidt received his PhD from Harvard University in 1993 and joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995. He served as the 12th Vice Chancellor and President of the Australia National University from 2016-2023.
The Universe from Beginning to End
Astronomers have pieced together the story of our Universe that begins more than 13 Billion years ago in a Big Bang. In the 2025 Dean’s Lecture, Nobel Prize Winner Prof Brian Schmidt will describe the journey that science has thus far taken to understand our Universe, describing what we know about the Cosmos and how we know it, as well as reflecting on some of the mysteries that remain. A chance to learn a bit about everything from Dark Energy to Black Holes, and an opportunity for the audience to ask questions at the end of the lecture.
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