New DESI Survey results validate spectacularly that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, probably due Dark Energy. ⁦UCL⁩ has contributed, with ⁦Science and Technology Facilities Council⁩ support, to the construction of the DESI optics and to the science analysis. ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/apr/…

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Renowned author and social activist Sami Michael sadly passed away at age 97. He was a close family friend. I was fortunate to have inspiring conversations with him in my youth. RIP

It was a pleasure to host Steven Balbus (⁦⁦Department of Physics at University of Oxford⁩ ) @UCL for a stimulating ‘Perren Masterclass’ on
‘Pleasant Surprises in #GeneralRelativity ’.

Thanks to Evan Moffitt and the ⁦UCL⁩ ‘Duck-Rabbit’ student society for organising an interesting event on the perception of Space & Time, with talks by Neuroscientist John O’Keefe
(Nobel Prize laureate) and myself, followed by a lively discussion.

Congratulations Dr. Sunil Mucesh!
Sunil, a PhD student of mine at our UCL CDT Data Intensive Science Data Science programme, has successfully passed his viva! Thanks to Will Hartley (Geneva) for the dedicated co-supervision, and to the examiners Carlton Baugh (Durham) and Nikos Nikolaou (UCL).

ArXiv was weird today, so you might miss our new Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: arxiv.org/abs/2403.02314

Simulation-based inference using 'dark matter' lensing maps, which gives 2x improvement in dark energy parameter precision! But, precision isn't everything... (1/4)

We’ve released our final analysis of measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal! Read about the most precise measurement of this kind ever made of when the Universe was just half its age! ifae.es/news/2024/02/2…

The full papers can be found at darkenergysurvey.org/des-bao-papers/

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae, placing Dark Energy Survey #supernova survey's strongest constraints on the expansion of the #universe !

🔗Read more: news.fnal.gov/2024/01/final-…
#DESresult #darkenergy

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Lights in harmony, at the main court UCL

2) Causal discovery & inference in astrophysics (applications: Cosmology, Exoplanetary Science), with Prof. Ofer Lahav
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It was a pleasure to give on 28 Nov a talk on ‘AI for cosmological experiments’ to the Cambridge University Astronomical Society, and to visit my old college @catz_cambridge

Published in nature: our AI system for material design ‘GNoME’ that found 380,000 new materials (which we’ve made freely available to the research community) with potential to accelerate greener tech from better batteries to more efficient superconductors deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

Thanks to the organisers of the French community meeting held past two days at Annecy for inviting me to talk about ‘The Sociology of #’darkenergy’. It was a chance to think about the bigger picture and the challenges of our research.

Welcome to the dazzling edge of darkness!🤩

The first images from #ESAEuclid are here:
razor-sharp, wide & looking far into the distant Universe. A trifecta never before achieved.

Explore these 5⃣ cosmic portraits that show Euclid's full potential esa.int/Science_Explor… and👇

It is a pleasure to participate in a conference in honour of Suto-san in Tokyo.
Am enjoying a week of sanity in turbulent times.

Scientists get closer to solving mystery of antimatter bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

It was great visiting again ⁦Department of Physics at University of Oxford⁩ and All Souls College over the past two weeks.🙏🏽

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