“New Telescopes that will Expand Hubble’s Frontier”.
Speaker: Dr. Rogier A. Windhorst from ASU. Dr. Windhorst is an astronomer and a professor of physics and astronomy at Arizona State University and formally presided over The School of Earth and Space Exploration. His research lies in astronomy, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, his group at ASU has contributed significantly to unraveling the formation and evolution of distant galaxies. His research has led to new understandings of how the universe first began. He also studies black holes and he is the principal investigator of the Hubble Space Telescope mid-UV bright galaxy survey.