Københavns Universitets Videoportal

Johan Samsing meets prof. Thibault Damour

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:30:00 GMT

Johan Samsing meets prof. Thibault Damour, for a Science Talk in Niels Bohr Office about his work on gravity and binary black holes:

Thibault Damour is a French physicist, best known for his groundbreaking work on gravitational waves from compact binary systems, and his invention with Alessandra Buonanno, of the "effective one-body" approach to represent the orbital trajectories of binary black holes.

T. Damour was a permanent professor in theoretical physics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques from 1989 to 2022, where he is now professor emeritus. T. Damour has received numerous prizes including the Balzan Prize for Gravitation, as well as the Galileo Galilei Medal and the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.

In this video series, Johan Samsing (NBIA) meets 7 outstanding scientists, each of which have made profound contributions to our understanding of the Universe within the areas of black holes, gravitational waves, early universe dynamics, and quantum gravity.

The recordings took place at the Niels Bohr Office during the conference "Current Themes in High Energy Physics, Gravity and Cosmology" held by the Niels Bohr International Academy from Aug. 21st to 25th, 2023.

Johan Samsing meets Paul J. Steinhardt in the Niels Bohr Office

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:30:00 GMT

Johan Samsing meets prof. Paul Steinhardt for a Science Talk in Niels Bohr Office about his work on the Big Bang Model:

Paul Steinhardt is an American physicist, known for his groundbreaking work on the origin, evolution and future of the universe,

as well as his exploration of a new form of matter, known as quasicrystals. He has been faculty at Princeton University since the Fall of 1998, and he co-founded the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and served as its Director from 2007 to 2019. Paul Steinhardt has received numerous prices including the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour in 2020.

Johan Samsing meets prof. Edward "Rocky" Kolb

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:30:00 GMT

Johan Samsing meets prof. Edward "Rocky" Kolb, for a Science Talk in Niels Bohr Office about his work on the early universe:

Edward "Rocky" Kolb is an American cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of Physical Sciences. He is known for his groundbreaking work on Big Bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is the author, with Michael Turner, of the highly popular textbook The Early Universe. E. Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

Johan Samsing meets prof. Wendy Freedman

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 06:30:00 GMT

Johan Samsing meets prof. Wendy Freedman, for a Science Talk in Niels Bohr Office about her work on the expansion of the Universe:

Wendy Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her groundbreaking work on the Hubble constant. W. Freedman has been director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile, and now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

W. Freedman has received numerous prizes, including the Gruber Cosmology Prize in 2009, and in 2016 the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

Johan Samsing meets prof. Neil Turok

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:30:00 GMT

Johan Samsing meets prof. Neil Turok for a Science Talk in Niels Bohr Office about his work on the early universe:

Neil Turok is a South African physicist, known for his groundbreaking work on early-universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe.

In 1992 he was awarded the Maxwell medal for his contributions to theoretical physics. In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Physics at Princeton University, then held the Chair of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge starting in 1997.

He was appointed Director of the Perimeter Institute in 2008. In 2020, Turok was appointed as the Inaugural Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.