Shedding light on dark matter

This year's Christmas Lecture 2008, presented by the University and Dundee City Council, will be delivered by Professor Carlos Frenk FRS, one of the world's foremost cosmologists and an originator of the 'cold dark matter' theory.

Professor Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics and Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, is one of the top ten most cited authors in the world in the scientific literature on Space Sciences and Astronomy over the past decade.

He and his research group carry out large cosmological simulations of the Universe using the 'Cosmology Machine' at Durham, one of the largest supercomputers in the UK.

The Dundee Christmas Lecture was inaugurated last year to mark the University's 40th anniversary, and is jointly hosted by the University and the City Council.

Lord Provost John Letford said, 'Dundee is well known as a city of science and learning. It is inspiring to see how Dundee University is inviting the general public to share in the quest for understanding about some very intriguing questions.'

Last year's debut lecture was delivered by Professor Steve Jones, with hundreds of people filling the auditorium to hear his lecture 'Why evolution is right and creationism is wrong...'

This year's lecture takes place on Saturday December 6th, at 6 pm, in the Dalhouse Building, Old Hawkhill, University of Dundee.

Admission is free and tickets and information are available from the Events Office at the University - e-mail events@dundee.ac.uk or tel 01382 388046.