Our public lecture for May 2026 will be held by Dr Adam Carnall.
The lecture will be held in room 641 of the Royal College Building at Strathclyde University, at 19:30pm.
The formation of the vast and complex galaxies we see in today's Universe is an epic story, spanning the full 14 billion years of cosmic history. Over the past three years, the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble, has revealed in stunning, never-before-seen detail the earliest stages of this story, all the way back to the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Dr Carnall will give an overview of the most exciting recent developments and the mysteries still to be solved.
A graduate of Durham and Edinburgh Universities, Adam Carnall is now a faculty member at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. He leads the Origins of Massive Galaxies research group, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope to study the earliest stages in the formation of galaxies like our own Milky Way. Originally from North Yorkshire, Adam is a keen hillwalker in the Scottish Highlands and Golden Retriever owner.