Supernova expert to visit Australia
One of the world’s leading supernova researchers, Bob Kirshner, will visit Australia in November 2009 on a speaking tour funded by a Selby Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science.
Professor Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University, is one of the world’s foremost researchers on supernovae — exploding stars. He was the original driving force behind the High-z Supernova Search Team which, along with a second team, revolutionised cosmology in the late 1990s by discovering that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating — work for which the two teams shared the 2007 Gruber Prize for cosmology. Determining the nature of the ‘Dark Energy’ that drives this acceleration is now a central problem in physics and cosmology.
Bob writes articles and books on astronomy for the general reader, and is an excellent, much sought-after speaker for both professional and public audiences.
The dates and venues of Bob’s lecture tour will be posted as they are confirmed. For more information, email iya@aao.gov.au .
Last Updated ( Monday, 28 September 2009 )
