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SUMMARY:Everything from Nothing\, or How our Universe was Made - Professor
  Carlos Frenk
DTSTART:20121106T181500Z
DTEND:20121106T193000Z
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CONTACT:James Scott-Brown
DESCRIPTION:Cosmology confronts some of the most fundamental questions in 
 the whole of science. How and when did our universe begin? What is it made
  of? How did galaxies and other structures form? There has been enormous p
 rogress in the past few decades towards answering these questions. For exa
 mple\, recent observations have established that our universe contains an 
 unexpected mix of components: ordinary atoms\, exotic dark matter and a ne
 w form of energy called dark energy. Gigantic surveys of galaxies reveal h
 ow the universe is structured. Large supercomputer simulations recreate th
 e evolution of the universe and provide the means to relate processes occu
 ring near the beginning with observations of the universe today. A coheren
 t picture of cosmic evolution\, going back to a tiny fraction of a second 
 after the Big Bang\, is beginning to emerge. However\, fundamental issues\
 , like the identity of the dark matter and the nature of the dark energy\,
  remain unresolved.  [
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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