University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > The Hewish Lectures > Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

  Browse A-Z

Log in

University Account External (via Google)

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹ️ Information

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact .

The discovery of pulsars by Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1967 is a perfect example of “serendipity” – the circumstance where one finds something interesting and exciting while looking for something else. Over the intervening four decades, more than 1800 pulsars have been discovered and much progress has been made on understanding their properties. They have continued to surprise us with a stream of unexpected discoveries such as the first binary pulsar and the first millisecond pulsar. Pulsars are wonderful tools for the investigation of a wide range of topics in astronomy and physics. In this lecture Professor Manchester will discuss the latest development including high precision tests of general relativity and prospects for the future.

This talk is part of the The Hewish Lectures series.

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Main Lecture Room, Divinity School, St John's College, All Saints' Passage St John's College, CB2 1TP CuAI (Cambridge University Artificial Intelligence Society) "please register here":https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/EEd9CpklwHlyO8WCDq6LA?domain=eventbrite.com

Other talks

Sheref Mansy, topic TBA Harnessing Radical Reactivity for Molecular Innovation Laser tomography for wide area gas emission spatio-temporal reconstruction Title TBC Group Work Title to be confirmed
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity