The Dark Side of the Universe

Prospective Students Students and Doctorate Alumni and Supporters Continuing Education - Professor of Astrophysics Catherine Heymans to Hold Einstein Lecture Dahlem on October 29 at Freie Universität Berlin No 279/2019 from Sep 26, 2019 The famous astrophysicist Professor Catherine Heymans from the University of Edinburgh will hold the 19th Einstein Lecture Dahlem on October 29 at Freie Universität Berlin. Her talk, "Seeing the Invisible - The Dark Side of the Universe," examines dark matter, that is, matter that cannot be seen as dust, gas, or stars. Professor Günter M. Ziegler, the president of Freie Universität, will open the lecture with an official greeting, followed by an introduction by Professor Hermann Nikolai, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. The event is co-organized by Freie Universität in cooperation with the Max Planck Society and will take place in the Henry Ford Building, Garystraße 35. The lecture is free and open to the public, but please register in advance (by October 23). Just over 95% of our universe comes in the shrouded form of dark energy and matter that we can neither explain nor directly detect. Together, these two dark entities play out an epic cosmic battle with the gravity of dark matter slowly pulling structures in the universe together, and dark energy fueling the universe's accelerated expansion, making it ever harder for those structures to grow.