Title: The Universe: The 2026 Model with Dr. Bruce Partridge

Event Info: 

Just as car models are updated each year, our understanding of the cosmos is constantly refined by new discoveries. In this essential presentation, Dr. Partridge will deliver "The Universe: The 2026 Model"—a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute overview of our current cosmic knowledge.

Dr. Partridge is a veritable legend in the field of cosmology. For his entire career, he has been at the forefront of studying the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. He was a key member of the COBE satellite science team, a project that won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and laid the groundwork for our modern precision cosmology. He is also an important contributor of the European Space Agency's Planck satellite (a contribution for which his team was awarded the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize) and the ground-breaking Atacama Cosmology Telescope. In a remarkable recent achievement, Dr. Partridge was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025, a testament to his lifelong and profound contributions to science.

He will guide us through the latest findings on topics such as dark energy, dark matter, the expansion rate of the Universe, and the formation of cosmic structures, bringing the perspective of a scientist who has helped build our current cosmological model from the ground up.