TACOS 2026

Session

Hagler Institute Nobel Lecture

22 Oct 2026, 18:00

31. The Universe From Beginning to End

Brian Schmidt (Australian National University)

22/10/2026, 18:00

Dr. Brian Schmidt, renowned astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner, will present on his team’s discovery that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, a finding that changed our understanding of the universe by showing that about 70 percent of the universe’s mass is “dark energy.”

Dr. Brian Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University’s Mount...