Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

KICC Overview

The Kavli Institute for Cosmology (KICC) provides an environment in which the University’s cosmologists and astrophysicists from different academic departments can share knowledge, work together on major projects and develop new initiatives.

Research Themes

Kavli research encompasses observational experiments and theoretical modelling of the Universe. It's origin and evolution from the 'Big Bang' through to the present and into the future.

Projects

Scientists at KICC have been leading, or have been heavily involved in many major observational, instrumental and computational projects, often involving large international collaborations.

People

The Kavli Institute brings together eminent Professors, Lecturers, Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers from three University departments, Institute of Astronomy, Cavendish Astrophysics and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) together with visiting academics from around the world.

Upcoming events

Distorted Astrophysical Discs

May 01, 2021

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

Likelihood-Free Inference Workshop

Sep 01, 2021

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

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KICC papers

DES Y1 results: Splitting growth and geometry to test $\Lambda$CDM. (arXiv:2010.05924v1 [astro-ph.CO])

Oct 15, 2020

From haloes to galaxies -- II. The fundamental relations in star formation and quenching. (arXiv:2010.03579v1 [astro-ph.GA])

Oct 12, 2020

Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet $\beta$ Pic c. (arXiv:2010.04442v1 [astro-ph.EP])

Oct 12, 2020

ALMaQUEST -- IV. The ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation (ALMaQUEST) Survey. (arXiv:2010.01751v1 [astro-ph.GA])

Oct 07, 2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Correlations. (arXiv:2010.01138v1 [astro-ph.CO])

Oct 07, 2020

Cosmology Papers

Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude

Sep 03, 2020

A dynamically cold disk galaxy in the early Universe

Aug 13, 2020

Crunch, rip, freeze or decay — how will the Universe end?

Aug 11, 2020

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Kavli Lecture to be provided by Claudia Maraston on Thursday 15th Oct 2020, 4pm UK Time

Oct 12, 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Oct 06, 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez, for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe: the black hole.

First joint measurement of exoplanet’s mass and brightness challenges classical model of planet formation

Oct 02, 2020

A team of astronomers led by led by KICC researcher Mathias Nowak have used the ESO instrument GRAVITY to take the first image of an exoplanet that had previously only been detected indirectly via the spectrum of its star.

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