The Physics Department were delighted to host the Physics Nobel Laureate, Prof Brian Schmidt who was visiting Maynooth University to give the Dean's Lecture 2025 (Faculty of Science and Engineering) ‘The Universe from Beginning to End’.
The Physics Department welcomes Physics Nobel Laureate | Maynooth University
Prof Schmidt also generously gave his time, the day after the talk, to meet our current astrophysics research students at an event in the Science Museum in Maynooth where they presented and described their work in a poster session.
Topics discussed included a variety of astrophysics research topics studied in the Physics Department from dark energy and black hole simulations, star formation and x-ray astronomy to the development of future CMB missions and MKID detector arrays. We were also joined on the day by three researchers from TCD and UCD who also work on supernova analysis.
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