In Spring 2005, I gave the 61st Compton Lectures at the Enrico Fermi Institute, an eight-part public lecture series on galaxy formation and cosmology, which were held from April 16th to June 4th. The slides from my lectures are posted below.
The Story of Galaxy Formation in our Universe
- April 16: Our Expanding Universe [slides] [summary]
- April 23: What is the Universe Made of? [slides] [summary]
- April 30: The First 380,000 Years; Structure Formation [slides] [summary]
- May 7: The Age, Shape and Expansion History of our Universe [slides] [summary]
- May 14: The Onset of Galaxy Formation [slides] [summary]
- May 21: Creating the Galactic Zoo: Interactions and the Hubble Sequence [slides] [summary]
- May 28: Research Frontiers in Galaxy Formation [slides] [summary]
- June 4: Beginning to End [slides] [summary]
Further Reading
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