Category Archives: Outreach

Outreach lecture to teachers

By Ian | Published: July 21, 2011

I gave a lecture to secondary school teachers this week as part of the Goldsmith’s Company’s Science for Society Course on astrophysics. Having heard about the Big Bang model and some of its problems from my colleague Dr David Mulryne, I was given the task of outlining how the inflationary paradigm tries to solve these [...]

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Big Bang Fair 2011

By Ian | Published: March 18, 2011

As part of my outreach activities this year I participated in the speed networking sessions of the Big Bang Fair held last week in East London’s ExCeL centre. I had a great time at the previous London based Big Bang Fair in 2009 and since then the event has only got bigger, louder and more [...]

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The Big Bang Fair

By Ian | Published: February 6, 2009

The first ever UK Young Scientist and Engineers Fair is taking place in the first week of March. The Big Bang Fair in the QE2 Conference Centre in Westminster will pit hundreds of schoolchildren against each other for the main prizes of UK Young Scientist and UK Young Technologist of the Year. There will also [...]

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I am a theoretical cosmologist at Queen Mary, University of London. My work focuses on the early universe and in particular inflationary models.
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My recent work has included creating numerical simulations of cosmological perturbations during inflation. My code, called Pyflation, is open source and available for download.

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