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Read more at: KICC 10th Anniversary Celebration
KICC 10th Anniversary Celebration

KICC 10th Anniversary Celebration

24 July 2019

On 18th July 2019 we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology. The event was opened by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and was attended by representatives of the Kavli Foundation we well as by faculty, postdocs and students from KICC and from the three parent departments (...


Read more at: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1919 eclipse expedition
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1919 eclipse expedition

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1919 eclipse expedition

29 May 2019

100 years of general relativity


Read more at: Dr Debora Sijacki wins the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2019
Dr Debora Sijacki wins the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2019

Dr Debora Sijacki wins the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2019

17 April 2019

Congratulations to Debora Sijacki who has won the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2019. This prestigious prize is awarded annually to a female scientist in recognition of their outstanding impact on HPC research and computational science at a global level and for being a role model for young women beginning their careers...


Read more at: Maximum earthquake: test successfully passed for first MOONS Camera

Maximum earthquake: test successfully passed for first MOONS Camera

4 April 2019

Institutes at the University of Cambridge, and specifically the Cavendish Laboratory, the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and the Institute of Astronomy, are in charge of designing, assembling, aligning and testing the six cameras of MOONS, the next generation optical/near-infrared multi-object spectrograph for ESO’s Very...


Read more at: Variations in the ‘fogginess’ of the universe identify a milestone in cosmic history
Variations in the ‘fogginess’ of the universe identify a milestone in cosmic history

Variations in the ‘fogginess’ of the universe identify a milestone in cosmic history

3 April 2019

Large differences in the ‘fogginess’ of the early universe were caused by islands of cold gas left behind when the universe heated up after the big bang, according to an international team of astronomers. The results , reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , have enabled astronomers to zero in...


Read more at: Launch of Kavli-RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) Summer School at CTC

Launch of Kavli-RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) Summer School at CTC

25 March 2019

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...


Read more at: Open Day 2019 at the Kavli Institute and Institute of Astronomy
Open Day 2019 at the Kavli Institute and Institute of Astronomy

Open Day 2019 at the Kavli Institute and Institute of Astronomy

22 March 2019

2019 Open Day -- Saturday 23rd March, 2-6pm This year, as every year, we'll be opening our doors to the public on the final Saturday of the Cambridge Science Festival for our Astronomy Open Day. There will be activities, demonstrations, and games suitible for all ages provided by the Institute of Astronomy, The Kavli...


Read more at: First MOONS camera delivered and mounted
First MOONS camera delivered and mounted

First MOONS camera delivered and mounted

1 March 2019

The Kavli institute for Cosmology, Cambridge is heavily involved, together with the Cavendish Laboratory and the Institute of Astronomy, in the development of MOONS, the next generation near-IR multi-object spectrograph for ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. Cambridge is responsible for designing the optomechanics and...


Read more at: Cambridge researchers raise doubts about claimed detection of “Cosmic Dawn”

Cambridge researchers raise doubts about claimed detection of “Cosmic Dawn”

20 December 2018

A great deal of interest was created a few months ago by a paper 1 announcing the detection of “An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum”. This was a finding by the EDGES experiment showing an apparent feature in the radio emission coming from all parts of the sky which could be the...


Read more at: Kavli Institute for Cosmology announces new programme of research fellowships: the 'Gavin Boyle Fellowship in Cosmology and Exoplanetary Science
Kavli Institute for Cosmology announces new programme of research fellowships: the 'Gavin Boyle Fellowship in Cosmology and Exoplanetary Science

Kavli Institute for Cosmology announces new programme of research fellowships: the 'Gavin Boyle Fellowship in Cosmology and Exoplanetary Science

3 October 2018

The Kavli Institute for Cosmology is glad to announce a new programme of research fellowships: the 'Gavin Boyle Fellowship in Cosmology and Exoplanetary Science’. This new Fellowship programme has been made possible by the generous joint donation from Mr Gavin Boyle and the Kavli Foundation, and aims at attracting...