The Crisis in Cosmology

Webinar with 

Amit Vishwas
Location Icon On Zoom Calendar Icon 17 Aug 2024 Clock Icon 07:00 pm IST

Overview

The Crisis in Cosmology may change the laws of Physics as we know them. The discussion with Amit Vishwas focuses on the Hubble Tension, a major crisis in cosmology arising from conflicting measurements of the Hubble Constant (H₀) which measures the universe’s expansion rate.

About Speaker

Amit graduated with a B.Tech in Information Technology from NIT Surathkal in southern India. From here, he moved to Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering for a Master’s degree and continued to pursue a Master’s and PhD in Astronomy. Currently, he is working at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, building a novel cryogenic radio Phased Array Feed (PAF) acting as a multi-pixel camera – ALPACA: Advanced Cryogenic L-band Phased Array Camera for the Arecibo Radio Telescope.
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