Swiss Euclid Days 2020
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| Date | 04.02.2020 › 05.02.2020 |
| Hour | 10:00 › 17:00 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Inaugural gathering of the Swiss academic community related to ESA’s EUCLID mission.
The ESA “Cosmic Vision” Euclid space telescope mission, scheduled to be launched in 2022, is designed to understand the origin of the universe’s accelerating expansion that physicists and astronomers call “Dark Energy”.
Current observations show that dark energy composes more than 70% of the total energy of the present-day universe and is therefore driving its evolution. Euclid will observe several hundred million galaxies over a large fraction of the sky and will track the observational signatures of dark energy, dark matter, and gravity on the geometry of the universe and the cosmic history of structure formation.
Several Swiss universities are already involved in this mission. Leading researchers will meet at the EPFL over 2 days for an exchange on the existing contributions of Swiss academics and institutions, and discuss future opportunities for research and synergies.
The ESA “Cosmic Vision” Euclid space telescope mission, scheduled to be launched in 2022, is designed to understand the origin of the universe’s accelerating expansion that physicists and astronomers call “Dark Energy”.
Current observations show that dark energy composes more than 70% of the total energy of the present-day universe and is therefore driving its evolution. Euclid will observe several hundred million galaxies over a large fraction of the sky and will track the observational signatures of dark energy, dark matter, and gravity on the geometry of the universe and the cosmic history of structure formation.
Several Swiss universities are already involved in this mission. Leading researchers will meet at the EPFL over 2 days for an exchange on the existing contributions of Swiss academics and institutions, and discuss future opportunities for research and synergies.
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