Past Events

The 2020 Kavli Prize laureate Professor Andrew Fabian presents a special lecture, "The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies".

Understanding the Decline in Star Formation from Cosmic Noon to the Present VIRTUAL MEETING 8-10 September 2020 Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, UK In light of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, we have chosen to postpone this in-person meeting until Summer 2021. We will re-open abstract submission early in 2021. In...

KICC Summer Series 2020 KICC are pleased to announce our summer series of (online) talks featuring a group of exciting speakers for each Tuesday in August 2020 at 3pm covering a wide range of Astronomical topics. The program is below and listed on talks.cam . Catherine Heymans (Edinburgh) Tuesday 4 August 2020, 15:00-16:00...

Distorted Astrophysical Discs Recent high-resolution observations of discs in a variety of astrophysical systems – protoplanetary discs, discs around compact objects, discs within and around binaries - have revealed a stunning richness of asymmetric and non-coplanar distortions: spiral arms, eccentricities, warps...

The Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (KICC) would like to invite cosmologists to join official Kavli Visitors Benjamin Wandelt and Justin Alsing for a workshop on Likelihood-free Inference. The Likelihood forms the cornerstone of all traditional astrophysical inference and statistical techniques (both Bayesian and...

Rocky Worlds Monday 6th - Wednesday 8th January 2020 at the Kavli Institute The planets that are best understood are the four telluric planets of our own solar system. Applying the detailed understanding gleaned from these bodies is crucial in our interpretation of exoplanetary systems. With the on-going programs to search...

Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge, UK, September 23-27, 2019 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics is at the dawn of what will become one of the great scientific endeavours of the 21st century. The Nobel Prize winning first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015 has been a revolutionary step forward in...

The Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge symposium "Cosmology: the end of the beginning. Future prospects in cosmology, large scale structure and galaxy formation" will take place from the 16th to 20th of September 2019, in Cambridge, UK to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Kavli Institute.

Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge are delighted to host Astro Hack Week 2019.