Invitation to a Special Colloquium with Shaw Laureate Professor J. Richard Bond
The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (DADDAA) are pleased to invite you to a special edition of the Astro Colloquium given by Professor J. Richard Bond, the 2025 Shaw Laureate in Astrophysics.
Professor Bond, the first University of Toronto faculty member to receive the honour, and his co-recipient George Efstathiou of the University of Cambridge, have been recognized for their groundbreaking work on fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. Their theoretical predictions have led to precise determinations of the universe’s age, its geometric shape, and its composition of matter and energy.
The public lecture Professor Bond will give is entitled, “Have quantum Transport, Will Travel: Entropy in a Coherent Universe”. It will be a reprise of his Shaw Prize Lecture, covering the history of cosmic ideas, nuclear astrophysics, and the transition of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) field from a speculative subject to a high-precision one.
- Speaker: Professor J. Richard Bond
- When: Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 2 PM
- Where: SS2135 (Sidney Smith Hall)
