Mapping the Universe and Its History | George Smoot | Nobel Conference

Описание: George Smoot presenting "Mapping the Universe and Its History" at the 49th annual Nobel Conference: The Universe at Its Limits. Which took place at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2013.

George F. Smoot III, Ph.D. is professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley; senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; professor of physics, Paris Diderot University, France.
Dr. Smoot shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for his work with senior NASA astrophysicist John Mather on the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) that led to the measurement “of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave radiation” and evidence of the fiery birth of our universe. Smoot’s group at Berkeley National Laboratory has mapped the early universe, noting variations in the cosmic background radiation that are the “seeds” of present-day galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Subjects:
-Beginning of Lecture (12:38)
-Hubble Ultra Deep Field (15:33)
-CSI Primary Tool (17:47)
-Maps of the Universe (23:43)
-CMB Missions (24:54)
-Planck Maps the Microwave Sky (28:05)
-Brief History of the Universe (31:14)
-Sloan Digital Sky Survey (34:35)
-2 Degree Field of View Survey (37:04)
-BOSS (38:23)
-BigBOSS Goals (41:44)
-Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (51:09)
-Dark Energy, Redshift, and the Scale of Matter (53:06)
-Video Representations of the Universe (1:04:20)
-Beginning of Q&A (1:18:20)

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