Introduction to Shaw Prize of Astronomy 2025: CMB
Time: 2025 Nov. 23 (Sun) 17:00-18:15
Venue: Planetarium, Macao Science Center
Lecturer: Sirius Lei, Macao Astronomical Society
Language: Cantonese
Attendance: No registration required. Free tickets to be distributed by ticketing office on the day.
Introduction: This event is a fulldome lecture in the planetarium. Mr. Sirius Lei, the director-general of the Macao Astronomical Society, will introduce the audience to the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and its laureates: John Richard Bond and George Efstathiou. This fulldome lecture will introduce the significant contributions of their pioneering research in cosmology and their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. These studies led to precise determinations of the age, geometry, and mass-energy content of the universe.
