Recently I had the pleasure to give a talk for the Oxford University Alumni Society in Berlin. Below is a respost from the society’s website. Thanks again for the invitation and for the wonderful evening! Oxford-Berlin Seminar with Dr Joseph Caruana (Christ Church) Friday, 11 November 2016, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin The Oxford University Society Berlin was pleased to welcome distinguished astrophysicist and alumnus Dr Joseph…
Signals from the Deep Past – Unveiling Early Cosmic Structures It has been a pleasure to organise the first conference in Malta dedicated to the high redshift universe. A number of leaders in the field visited the islands to discuss their latest work and future plans. Beside the specialist discussions, the conference also served as a platform for public engagement; to this end a public talk was organised on…
This June I had the opportunity and great honour to participate in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, this year dedicated to physics. Seeing their beginning in 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting take place once year, and see around 30-40 Nobel Laureates coming to Lindau “to meet the next generation of leading scientists”. More information about the meetings can be found on the official webpage. It was a truly unforgettable…
Last night we held an astronomy night at Dwejra tower. Dwejra is a Dark Sky Heritage Area (DSHA) in Gozo. Over 200 people had the opportunity to look through a variety of telescopes to observe various objects, including the three planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Many had their first ever look at these planets, and were left in awe at the austere beauty of the night sky. A more in-depth…
Last week I attended the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) in Tenerife to chair a special session (SP22) on “Theory and Observation of the First Galaxies”. Scope Thanks to deep NIR imaging from both Hubble/WFC3 (e.g. XDF, CANDELS, and now the Frontier Fields) and VISTA (e.g. UltraVISTA and VIDEO) it is now possible to observationally identify and characterise galaxies well within the first billion years of the…
Cafe Scientifique organise some fantastic events for the general public. This Christmas (well, close enough to it anyway), I was invited to tell a cosmic story, which I very glady accepted. Thanks to Cafe Sci and Spazju Kreattiv for organising, and for their fantastic work throughout the year.
Below follow details of an upcoming talk I will be giving for the general public organised by the Astronomical Society of Malta. The concept of time travel is a staple of many science fiction stories. However, we do indeed have the ability to look back in time whenever we turn our glance towards the skies. Distances to stars and galaxies are so vast that light takes thousands, millions and billions…
Another of the ‘Lab, Camera, Action‘ Video Series discussing physics concepts and work done at the University of Oxford is online. This one focusses on particle accelerators. We visited the ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire and talked to accelerator physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNhuQPVwXk
As part of a new series called ‘Lab, Camera, Action‘ discussing physics concepts and work done at the University of Oxford, you may find this video we filmed recently, discussing the physics behind Maglev trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAkFr8ZYthw
In a few days we’ll be discussing the most distant galaxies observed in our universe. Details in the poster below.