The Hintze Lectures highlight contemporary developments in Astrophysics and Cosmology. They are run by the Oxford Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys.
A generous donation by The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation enables world leading researchers to visit Oxford and deliver a lecture as part of this series.
Previous Hintze Lectures
Professor Adam Burrows: Understanding supernova explosions with sophisticated computer simulations (June 2024)
Professor Laura Kreidberg: Copernicus revisited: is the Earth special? (November 2023)
Professor Matthew Colless : What we do and don't know about the universe (and how we know it) (May 2023)
Dr Matt Mountain: The James Webb Space Telescope: creating a new era in Astronomy (November 2022)
Professor Katherine Blundell: Our galaxy: close encounters in turbulent times (May 2022)
Professor George Efstathiou: The legacy from Planck: do we have a standard model of cosmology? (November 2021)
Professor Sandra Faber: Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race (April 2021)
Professor Victoria Kaspi: Fast Radio Bursts (November 2020)
Professor Heino Falcke: The First Image of a Black Hole (November 2019)
Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom: The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution (May 2019)
Professor Rocky Kolb: The Quantum and the Cosmos (October 2018)
Professor René Doyon: The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds (April 2018)
Professor Brian Schmidt: State of the Universe (November 2017)
Professor Conny Aerts: Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats (May 2017)
Professor David Spergel: Our Simple but Strange Universe (November 2016)
Professor Rob Kennicutt: Unveiling the Birth of Stars & Galaxies (May 2016)
Professor Meg Urry: Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years (November 2015)
Professor Hitoshi Murayama: The Quantum Universe (May 2015)
Professor Scott Ransom: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and Black Holes: The Wickedly Cool Stellar Undead (November 2014)
Professor David Charbonneau: The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet (February 2014)
Professor Christopher Reynolds: The Role of Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution (October 2013)
Professor Julianne Dalcanton: Dissecting galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope (May 2013)
Professor J. Anthony Tyson: LSST: New Science Frontiers (October 2012)
Professor P. James Peebles: Finding the Big Bang (April 2012)
Professor Michael Green: String Theory – a Unifying Principle in Theoretical Physics (June 2011)
Professor Alexander Szalay: Extreme Data Intensive Computing in Astrophysics (January 2011)
Professor Marek Abramowicz: Spinning up the Black Hole (November 2010)