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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Eve Ostriker 'How do Galaxies Work?

Eve Ostriker (Princeton University)AbstractGalaxies are sometimes described as "factories" where baryons accreted from the cosmic web are locked up as stars. This transformation is,…

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Higgs Chat with Jessica Turner (Durham)

Ahead of the Higgs Centre Colloquium, hear Jessica Turner talk about the beauty of Mathematics, how she became a scientist and some advice to students that she wishes she had gotten (hint: don't…

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Camille Bonvin 'Testing gravity with relativistic effects in large-scale structure'

More info and interview can be found on the website: https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/testing-gravity/ Speaker: Camille Bonvin (University of Geneva)AbstractThe distribution of galaxies is a…

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Sabino Matarrese 'Cosmology Beyond Linear Theory'

Higgs Chat with Sabino also available here: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Higgs+Chat+with+Sabino+Matarrese/1_oet8fli6

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Higgs Chat with Sabino Matarrese

Ahead of this Friday's #HiggsColloquium, hear from Sabino Matarrese @UniPadova on nearly becoming a rock star, choosing his career path on a train and some advice for PhDs (and students in…

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Higgs Chat with Francoise Combes

Ahead of the Higgs Colloquium this Friday (29/10/21) with Francoise Combes (Paris Observatory): https://edin.ac/3CgXtbP ('Growth of Super-Massive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei'), listen to…

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Andy STROMINGER 'Black Holes: Critical Behavior in the Sky'

Andy Strominger (Harvard) The last decade has witnessed dramatic progress in observational black hole astronomy. At the same time, exciting new insights - but not a solution - have emerged…

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Farzana Meru 'Structures in young planet-forming discs: an apparent contradiction between observations and theory'

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Emanuela Zaccarelli 'Elasticity and effective interactions of microgels in bulk and at liquid-liquid interfaces'

Speaker: Emanuela Zaccarelli (CNR, Sapienza University, Rome) Abstract:Microgels are soft particles individually made by cross-linked polymer networks which are nowadays widely used as a colloidal…

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Higgs Centre Colloquium: Konstantinos Dimopoulos 'Quintessential Inflation: linking the origin and fate of the Universe'

Speaker:Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University) Abstract: Observations suggest that the initial conditions of the history of the Universe were set by a period of superluminal expansion of…

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