HYBRID – General Meeting – December 2023

Presentation:  Researching Dark Matter and Dark Energy with the Euclid Space Telescope

On July 1st, the Euclid space mission launched from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 rocket. Euclid is the first space telescope designed to study the still-mysterious accelerated expansion of the Universe. A broad community of scientists from around the world eagerly anticipates the insights Euclid will ultimately yield on the nature of that acceleration, and the dark energy that presumably powers it. In his talk, Dr. Eric Huff will discuss the recent public release of the first science images, and explain how the Euclid mission will go about making measurements of dark energy and dark matter over the next few years.

Biography: Dr. Eric Huff was raised in Bullhead City, Arizona, and followed an early passion for physics to college in Tucson and a PhD at Berkeley. He’s done original work on a variety of topics, ranging from observational cosmology to tidal modeling of surface features on Jovian moons. Dr Huff is currently a Staff Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab and will be giving his presentation remotely.

Picture Caption: One of Euclid’s first images: the Perseus cluster of galaxies