'Understanding the Cosmos. An endeavour without borders' a talk by Prof. Matthias Bartelmann at Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 28th January 2014
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Event Description : Dwih Joint Lecture Series 2013/14
Humboldts Erben (Humboldt's Heirs)
"Understanding the Cosmos. An endeavour without borders"
Almost 170 years after the first volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos appeared, his attempt at summarising our understanding of the physical world is as topical as ever, but it has vastly changed in scale. Our Universe, which was not larger than the Milky Way at Humboldt's time, has expanded greatly. Nonetheless, we believe that we can capture its essential properties beginning with three simple assumptions that allow the construction of a physical world model. In the recent past, through the joint effort of scientists from all over the world, it has been recognised that this simple world model can encompass virtually all observations probing into its state. The talk will describe this development as well as the ideas and the evidence it is built upon.
Prof. Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg University)
Prof. Matthias Bartelmann was born in Bamberg, Germany (in 1965). After studying physics in Munich, he obtained his doctoral degree in 1992. Interrupted by a post-doctoral visit to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, USA), he worked as a scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics until 2003. Between 1997 and 2003, he was responsible for the German contribution to the Planck satellite project. Since then, he is professor for theoretical astrophysics at Heidelberg University. His main research interests are cosmology, the theory of cosmological structure formation and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Place : Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : Dwih Joint Lecture Series 2013/14
Humboldts Erben (Humboldt's Heirs)
"Understanding the Cosmos. An endeavour without borders"
Almost 170 years after the first volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos appeared, his attempt at summarising our understanding of the physical world is as topical as ever, but it has vastly changed in scale. Our Universe, which was not larger than the Milky Way at Humboldt's time, has expanded greatly. Nonetheless, we believe that we can capture its essential properties beginning with three simple assumptions that allow the construction of a physical world model. In the recent past, through the joint effort of scientists from all over the world, it has been recognised that this simple world model can encompass virtually all observations probing into its state. The talk will describe this development as well as the ideas and the evidence it is built upon.
Prof. Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg University)
Prof. Matthias Bartelmann was born in Bamberg, Germany (in 1965). After studying physics in Munich, he obtained his doctoral degree in 1992. Interrupted by a post-doctoral visit to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, USA), he worked as a scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics until 2003. Between 1997 and 2003, he was responsible for the German contribution to the Planck satellite project. Since then, he is professor for theoretical astrophysics at Heidelberg University. His main research interests are cosmology, the theory of cosmological structure formation and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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'Understanding the Cosmos. An endeavour without borders' a talk by Prof. Matthias Bartelmann at Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 28th January 2014
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