Tuesday 19th November 2024 from 19:00 for 19:30
Abingdon United Football Club (Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon)

Note: This talk will be preceded by a short AGM.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest telescope ever launched into space, has transformed our view of stars galaxies in the early Universe.
Over the first two years of operations, JWST has raised a swathe of new questions about how stars and galaxies formed in the early Universe.
In this talk, Dr Cameron will review some of the major findings about galaxies in the early Universe from JWST. In particular, he will focus on how JWST is showing that the properties of stellar populations (especially massive stars) may have been very different in the early Universe.

Speaker: Dr Alex Cameron

Dr. Alex Cameron is an astronomer in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford.

He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, before moving to Oxford as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in 2021. He is a member of the JWST/NIRSpec instrument team and had some involvement in the commissioning process after the launch of JWST. His research interests involve trying to understand how the first galaxies formed and what evolutionary processes have shaped galaxies over the last 13 billion years until the present day.