Public Lecture | Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth
Topic Overview:
Shortly after the birth of the universe, space was filled by a plasma that was literally red-hot. The light radiated by that plasma has traveled the vast emptiness of space for billions of years, with the expansion of the universe slowly stretching its waves until today it appears as microwave radiation. This is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a glow still visible in the night sky. This glow is almost uniform, but small variations from point to point hold information about the conditions of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. This lecture introduces the CMB, presents the sophisticated cameras we build to observe it, and describes the remote outposts of our planet where we deploy these cameras to take pictures of this faint radiation. As we image the CMB in finer and finer detail, we hope to improve our understanding of the beginning of the universe and perhaps of time itself.
About the Speaker
Zeeshan Ahmed is an observational cosmologist at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his PhD from Caltech in 2012 and held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University before being appointed a Panofsky Fellow at SLAC in 2015. Ahmed is a member of several scientific teams imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the South Pole and the Atacama Desert in Chile. He spends his time poring over data from these cameras and devising tricks to build more powerful CMB cameras. This year, Ahmed was a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s prestigious Early Career Award.
Видео Public Lecture | Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth канала SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Shortly after the birth of the universe, space was filled by a plasma that was literally red-hot. The light radiated by that plasma has traveled the vast emptiness of space for billions of years, with the expansion of the universe slowly stretching its waves until today it appears as microwave radiation. This is the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a glow still visible in the night sky. This glow is almost uniform, but small variations from point to point hold information about the conditions of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. This lecture introduces the CMB, presents the sophisticated cameras we build to observe it, and describes the remote outposts of our planet where we deploy these cameras to take pictures of this faint radiation. As we image the CMB in finer and finer detail, we hope to improve our understanding of the beginning of the universe and perhaps of time itself.
About the Speaker
Zeeshan Ahmed is an observational cosmologist at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his PhD from Caltech in 2012 and held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University before being appointed a Panofsky Fellow at SLAC in 2015. Ahmed is a member of several scientific teams imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the South Pole and the Atacama Desert in Chile. He spends his time poring over data from these cameras and devising tricks to build more powerful CMB cameras. This year, Ahmed was a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s prestigious Early Career Award.
Видео Public Lecture | Viewing the Beginning of Time from the Most Remote Places on Earth канала SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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