Venue: Theatre 1 (B103), Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Presenters: Professor Rachel Webster
Allison Levick Memorial Lecture
The ‘Big Bang’ model develops a picture of the universe that starts from a very smooth distribution of matter. As time passes, small inhomogeneities in the matter distribution collapse under gravity to form stars and galaxies. We can observe back in time to the early stages of the universe, but we are yet to see the birth of the very first stars lighting up the universe. This talk will describe some of the experiments looking for those first stars, as well as some of the conundrums that remain in our understanding of the universe we live in.
Professor Rachel Webster has had a stellar career teaching and researching astronomy for over 20 years.
from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNQy8-iEbg
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