Professor Joe Zuntz Inaugural Lecture: Choose Your Own Cosmology

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Professor Joe Zuntz Inaugural Lecture: Choose Your Own Cosmology

  • Event time: 5:15pm until 7:00pm
  • Event date: 27th February 2025
  • Speaker: (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Alder Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building

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About this lecture

The 21 years I’ve been in cosmology have seen an initially highly uncertain model of the Universe, LambdaCDM, become a well-tested and standard model of the Universe. Built deeply into that model, and our methods for analysing it, is random behaviour and probabilistic modelling. Embracing this unpredictable world, I will not precisely pre-plan this talk, but will allow the audience to decide which topics we talk about, in a choose-your-own-adventure style. We will probably cover developments in gravitational lensing observations that I have worked on in the last decade, but that’s up to you.

Biography

Joe Zuntz did his PhD on cosmic microwave background experimental and theoretical analysis at Imperial College in 2007. He then worked as a post-doc in Oxford, expanding his work to include modified gravity and other alternative models. In 2011 he moved to UCL and into weak gravitational lensing, which he has worked on ever since including a final post-doc in Manchester and his faculty position in Edinburgh from 2016. His main work now is on the Rubin Observatory.

Refreshments

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the foyer, Nucleus Building.

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