Einstein Lecture 2019. Seeing the Invisible - the Dark Side of the Universe
Events Berlin
- Date: Oct 29, 2019
- Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Catherine Heymans, Institute of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Location: Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin
- Host: Max Planck Society & Freie Universität Berlin
- Contact: mpgberlin@gv.mpg.de
Dark energy and dark matter play out an epic cosmic battle with the gravity of dark matter slowly pulling structures in the universe together, and dark energy fuelling the universe’s accelerated expansion, making it ever harder for those structures to grow. Catherine Heymans has used the world's best telescopes to map out the invisible dark matter in our Universe and confront different theories on the dark universe. She will explore this dark enigma and explain why she thinks in order to truly understand the dark universe we will need some new physics that will forever change our cosmic view.
Catherine Heymans is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, Director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing at the Ruhr Universitat Bochum, and a European Research Council Fellow. She specialises in observing the dark side of our Universe and co-leads the European Southern Observatory KiDS survey, using deep sky observations to test whether we need to go beyond Einstein with our current theory of gravity. Catherine is passionate about making science accessible for everyone and a welcome guest of science festivals and radio shows.
Scientific Introduction: Hermann Nicolai, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)