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Institute For Computational Cosmology
The Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) is a research institute at Durham University, England. It was founded in November 2002 as part of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, which also includes the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP). The ICC's primary mission is to advance fundamental knowledge in Physical cosmology, cosmology. Topics of active research include: the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the evolution of Large-scale structure of the universe, cosmic structure, Galaxy formation, the formation of galaxies, and the determination of Just Six Numbers#Martin Rees's Six Numbers, fundamental parameters. The current director of the ICC is Shaun Cole. ICC researchers have played a central role in the development of the standard model of cosmology, Lambda-CDM model (ΛCDM). The complex nature of questions in cosmology often means that advances require high performance computing, supercomputer N-body simulations, simulations in which a virtua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogden Centre For Fundamental Physics Building, Durham University
Ogden may refer to: Places Canada *Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta *Ogden, Quebec, a small municipality in the Eastern Townships *Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia *Ogden, British Columbia, an unincorporated locality in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia *Ogden Point, a landmark breakwater, lighthouse and port facility in Victoria, British Columbia *Ogden, Nova Scotia England *Ogden, West Yorkshire United States *Ogden, Arkansas *Ogden, Illinois *Ogden, Indiana *Ogden, Iowa *Ogden, Kansas *Ogden, Missouri *Ogden, New York *Ogden, North Carolina *Ogden, Ohio *Ogden, Utah ''(The largest city with the name)'' **Ogden Central station *Ogden, West Virginia *Ogden Township, Michigan *Mount Ogden, Utah *Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois *Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colorado *The Ogden, a condominium tower in Las Vegas, Nevada Rivers *River Ogden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom *Ogden Creek, a tributar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bang
The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models based on the Big Bang concept explain a broad range of phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale structure. The uniformity of the universe, known as the horizon and flatness problems, is explained through cosmic inflation: a phase of accelerated expansion during the earliest stages. A wide range of empirical evidence strongly favors the Big Bang event, which is now essentially universally accepted.: "At the same time that observations tipped the balance definitely in favor of the relativistic big-bang theory, ..." Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the universe place the Big Bang singularity at an estimated billion years ago, which is considered the age of the universe. Extrapolating this cosmic expansion backward in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre For Extragalactic Astronomy (Durham University)
The Department of Physics at Durham University, located in Durham, England, is responsible for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as scientific research in physics and astronomy. The department hosts the largest particle theory group in the United Kingdom. It is also noted for its research in astronomy and astrophysics, including one of the largest groups in Europe studying galaxy evolution. Based on the Mountjoy site south of the River Wear, the department is home to two research institutes: thInstitute for Particle Physics Phenomenologyand the Institute for Computational Cosmology. In the 2023 and 2024 editions of ''The Guardian'' university league tables, the department was ranked second for physics in the United Kingdom. Research Research is organised into five main groups: Advanced Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Elementary Particle Theory. The Department of Physics hosts seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre For Advanced Instrumentation
Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricity * Central tendency, measures of the central tendency (center) in a set of data Places United States * Centre, Alabama * Center, Colorado * Center, Georgia * Center, Indiana * Center, Warrick County, Indiana * Center, Kentucky * Center, Missouri * Center, Nebraska * Center, North Dakota * Centre County, Pennsylvania * Center, Portland, Oregon * Center, Texas * Center, Washington * Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin * Center, Rock County, Wisconsin **Center (community), Wisconsin *Center Township (other) *Centre Township (other) *Centre Avenue (other) *Center Hill (other) Other countries * Centre region, Hainaut, Belgium * Centre Region, Burkina Faso * Centre Region (Cameroon) * Centre-Val de Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the World Trade Center (2001–present), reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Reflections at Keppel Bay, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research Assessment Exercise
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every five years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils ( HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions. RAE submissions from each subject area (or ''unit of assessment'') are given a rank by a subject specialist peer review panel. The rankings are used to inform the allocation of quality weighted research funding (QR) each higher education institution receives from their national funding council. Previous RAEs took place in 1986, 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2001. The most recent results were published in December 2008. It was replaced by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2014. Various media have produced league tables of institutions and disciplines based on the 2008 RAE results. Different methodologies lead to similar but non-identical rankings. History The first exercise of assessing of research in highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham University Department Of Physics
The Department of Physics at Durham University, located in Durham, England, is responsible for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as scientific research in physics and astronomy. The department hosts the largest particle theory group in the United Kingdom. It is also noted for its research in astronomy and astrophysics, including one of the largest groups in Europe studying galaxy evolution. Based on the Mountjoy site south of the River Wear, the department is home to two research institutes: thInstitute for Particle Physics Phenomenologyand the Institute for Computational Cosmology. In the 2023 and 2024 editions of ''The Guardian'' university league tables, the department was ranked second for physics in the United Kingdom. Research Research is organised into five main groups: Advanced Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Elementary Particle Theory. The Department of Physics hosts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency), Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007, and was special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East from 2007 to 2015. He is the second-List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure, longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history after Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Labour Party (UK), Labour politician to have held the office, and the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories. Blair attended the independent s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ogden (businessman)
Sir Peter James Ogden (born 1947) is an English businessman who is one of the founders of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses. Education Ogden was born in Rochdale, England. He was educated at Rochdale Grammar School (now Balderstone Technology College). He was awarded a scholarship to University College, Durham in 1965, where he received a BSc in Physics (1968) and a PhD in Theoretical Physics (1971). He continued his education at Harvard Business School, receiving an MBA in Business Studies in 1973. Career Ogden's early career was with investment banks, notably Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley (where he was a managing director). In 1981, he founded Computacenter with Philip Hulme, acting as chairman of the company until 1998, when he became a non-executive director. He established a charitable foundation to pursue his philanthropic interests — The Ogden Trust had an annual expenditure of £1,118,224 in 2006–7. He was kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Particle Physics And Astronomy Research Council
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) was one of a number of research councils in the United Kingdom. It directed, coordinated and funded research in particle physics and astronomy for the people of the UK. Its head office was at Polaris House in Swindon, Wiltshire, but it also operated three scientific sites: the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) in La Palma and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) in Hawaii. It published the ''Frontiers'' magazine three times a year, containing news and highlights of the research and outreach programmes it supports. The PPARC was formed in April 1994 when the Science and Engineering Research Council was split into several organizations; other products of the split included the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). In April 2007, it merged with the Council for the Central L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ellis (astronomer)
Richard Salisbury Ellis (born 25 May 1950) is a Welsh astronomer. He is Professor of Astrophysics at the University College London. He previously served as the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was awarded the 2011 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 2022 the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and in 2023 the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. Education Ellis read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford in 1974. Career and research In 1985, he was appointed professor at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory) for his research contributions. In 1993 he moved to the University of Cambridge as the Plumian Professor and became a professorial fellow at Magdalene College. He served as director of the Institute of Astronomy from 1994 to 1999, at which point he moved to Caltech. Shortly after his arrival at Caltech, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Frenk
Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. Frenk graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Cambridge, spending his early research career in the United States, before settling permanently in the United Kingdom. He joined Durham University in 1986 and has served as the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University Department of Physics since 2001. Frenk is most notable for his work on galaxy formation, including his computational astrophysics, use of complex computer simulations to test theories on the chronology of the universe, origins and evolution of the universe. Alongside Marc Davis (astronomer), Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, and Simon White, he published a series of papers that established the validity of the cold dark matter hypothesis. He has written over 500 scientific articles and co-authored 5 of the 100 most cited papers ever published within his field. He was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
