Brian Schmidt: “Supernovas and dark energy”

In this lecture, Prof. Brian Schmidt (Australian National University, and Nobel Prize in Physics of 2011) discusses the role that supernovas have played in the discovery of the acceleration of the Universe, and the role they are likely to play in future research on dark energy. (Part I & Part II below.)

The slides for this talk (on PDF) can be downloaded here .

Part 1 – Brian Schmidt at the “USP Conference on cosmology, large-scale structure and the first objects” from Raul on Vimeo.

Part 2 – Brian Schmidt at the “USP Conference on cosmology, large-scale structure and the first objects” from Raul on Vimeo.