Public Lecture – Prof. Adam Riess (Nobel Laureate in Physics)
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 6:00 PM
Free Admission | Registrations will open soon
We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Adam Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2011), for a public lecture as part of the PASCOS 2026 conference.
Prof. Riess will take us on a journey through the expanding Universe, from the discovery of cosmic acceleration to the latest challenges in measuring the Hubble constant. This talk is open to everyone and will be accessible to a broad audience, including students, science enthusiasts, and members of the general public.
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from one of the leading figures in modern cosmology!
Title: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe
Abstract: In 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that our Universe is expanding. Eighty years later, the Space Telescope that bears his name is being used to study an even more surprising phenomenon: that the expansion is speeding up. The origin of this effect is not known, but is broadly attributed to a type of “dark energy” first posited to exist by Albert Einstein and now dominating the mass-energy budget of the Universe. Professor Riess will describe how his team discovered the acceleration of the Universe and why understanding the nature of dark energy presents one of the greatest remaining challenges in astrophysics and cosmology. He will also discuss recent evidence that the Universe continues to defy our best efforts to predict its behavior.
