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SUMMARY:The Development of Galaxies - Professor Richard Ellis\, Caltech
DTSTART:20150130T173000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nGalaxies are the visible fabric of the Universe. T
 hese luminous cities\nof stars can be seen across great distances in the U
 niverse and\, because the speed of\nlight is finite\, they provide astrono
 mers with the remarkable opportunity to witness \ntheir birth and evolutio
 n. By using large ground and space-based telescopes\, \ndetailed informati
 on has been gathered on the properties of galaxies back to a \ntime when t
 he Universe was barely 5% of its present age. The challenge lies in \nconn
 ecting these `time-slices’ of cosmic history into a physical picture of 
 galactic \nevolution. A detailed understanding of the development of galax
 ies enriches our \nview of the evolving Universe and I will describe the p
 rogress being made.\n\nBiography\n\nRichard Ellis is the Steele Professor 
 of Astronomy at the California Institute \nof Technology in Pasadena. A We
 lshman by birth\, he was an undergraduate at \nUniversity College London a
 nd gained his Ph.D. at Oxford. He became a \nprofessor of astronomy at the
  University of Durham in 1985. He was appointed\nthe Plumian Professor at 
 Cambridge in 1993 and served as Director of the Institute \nof Astronomy f
 rom 1994 to 1999. He has published widely on topics in observational \ncos
 mology and galaxy evolution and has recently charted the earliest period o
 f \ncosmic history\, when the first galaxies emerged. Within both the UK a
 nd USA he \nhas led discussions for new observational facilities\, the mos
 t recent example\nbeing the Thirty Meter Telescope now under construction 
 atop Mauna Kea on the \nisland of Hawaii. Ellis is a Fellow of the Royal S
 ociety and was awarded the \nGruber Cosmology Prize for his part in the di
 scovery of the accelerating Universe\, \nand the Royal Astronomical Societ
 y’s Gold Medal.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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