Lecture series: Radio Kosmos / Listening to the Cosmos
On the occasion of Arno Penzias' 90th birthday

Friday, 28 April 2023, 8 p.m. Lecture in English
Venue: Volkssternwarte (Munich Public Observatory), Rosenheimer Str. 145h, 81671 München

"I will talk about how the precision measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964 allowed us to prove the quantum origin of galaxies and their clusters." - V. Mukhanov

Prof. Mukhanov holds the chair on cosmology at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (since 1997) and was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 2015 (among many more international awards). He is one of the pioneering minds - if not the pioneer - behind the linking of the grand scale structure of the universe, with its galaxies and galaxy clusters, with the quantum world. As early as in 1980/1981 he had made predictions on the influence of quantum fluctuations that were confirmed in the following decades by the COBE, WMAP and Planck probes, analyzing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in more and more detail.

Arno Penzias (born on 26 April 1933 in Munich) and Robert Wilson first discovered the CMB, the "echo of the Big Bang", in 1964, and received the Nobel prize in 1978. Jewish born Penzias was forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany as a child in 1939 and fled to London with a Kindertransport.
We celebrate Penzias' 90th birthday with a mini lecture series "Radio Kosmos / Listening to the Universe" in April and May 2023, comprising two other lectures: On the Nuremberg "Arno-Penzias-Radioteleskop" (April 21st) and on "Musik & Kosmos" (May 5th, one night before the Lange Nacht der Musik in Munich).

If the skies are clear, guests are invited to visit the rooftop observatory and enjoy the views.

Tickets: € 8 / 5
Advance booking required due to limited number of seats.
Admission from 7:30 p.m.