Fly through and out of our galaxy and past our neighboring galaxies,
and watch computer simulations of the formation of the first star in
the universe. These very first stars were an important prerequisite
for the origin of life in the universe a few billion years ago. This
talk will describe the cutting-edge technology that is helping us to
learn what happened in the first billion years of the Universe's
history.
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Professor Tom Abel is Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford
University and teaches at the Kavli Institute for Particle
Astrophysics and Cosmology, and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center. His research is focused on predicting how stars and galaxies form in
the early universe using supercomputer calculations, building galaxies one star
at a time. Animations and pictures of his computer models have been
featured on Discovery
Channel, PBS, the cover of National Geographic and many other
national and international media. In support of his work on the first
galaxies he received a CAREER award from the National Science
Foundation in 2002.
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