The Dark Side of the Universe

Speaker: Professor Andrew Taylor
6th October

In this talk Professor Taylor described how our understanding of the Universe has rapidly developed in the last few years, to the point where we can accurately measure the main components of the Universe and track its history back over 14 billion years. With this new picture has come new surprises - most of the matter in the Universe is an unidentified "Dark Matter", and its energy budget is dominated by a new force, "Dark Energy". Explaining these mysteries will require carrying out some of the biggest experiments in the world, and may require changes in our view of Nature at its most fundamental level, as well as of the origin of the Universe.

Andrew Taylor is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy, based at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Professor Taylor completed his doctoral thesis at the University of London, and has worked extensively in the field of Cosmology, studying the origin and evolution of the Universe. He is especially interested in the nature of Dark Matter and the Dark Energy and has developed and applied new methods to image the Dark Matter, and to probing the initial conditions in the Universe.
>>Prof. Andrew Taylor webpage

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