BCCP

The Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics is an integrated research and education enterprise directed by Nobel Laureate George Smoot. BCCP will develop research, education, and outreach to create a vision and direction for the 21st century study of cosmology.


2006 Nobel Prize Support BCCP Research Overview Postdoctoral Research Scholarships Cosmology for the Next Generation Global Teachers' Academy The GTA was created by BCCP as part of a 21st century model for international cosmology education Calendar Contact	BCCP Cosmologists featured in 'The Big Picture'	Meet the BCCP Post Docs Tristan Smith modifies gravity Reiko Nakajima examines the effects of Dark Matter Anze Slosar defines cosmology and contemplates data overload
	BCCP Hosts the 2011 Cosmology Workshop for High School Teachers and Students At the BCCP cosmology workshops, prominent physicists present the current scientific view of the history and structure of the universe. Students and teachers learn how scientists do research in cosmology and particle physics, and teachers share physics lessons. The 2011 just finished. Click here for student comments and watch for the details of the workshop coming soon..
	Dark Energy Search with Supernova Dataset The Supernova Cosmology Project’s Union2 compilation and reanalysis represents decades of supernova surveys from the world’s leading researchers. Combined with the addition of six high-redshift supernovae, this effort puts new bounds on possible values for the nature of dark energy. Einstein’s cosmological constant comfortably fits the data, but there’s still plenty of room at the top for dynamical theories. Read more here.	Cosmology Videos Design of the Universe Dr. Smoot discusses the history and fate of the universe, winning the Nobel Prize, how to direct the Cal band to simulate the Big Bang, and more in these videos.
	Let the Games Begin Protons were whipped around a 17-mile underground magnetic track to more than 99 percent of the speed of light at CERN's Large Hadron Collider on March 30th.They crashed together inside apartment-building-size detectors designed to capture every evanescent flash and fragment from microscopic fireballs thought to hold insights into the beginning of the universe. The soundless blooming of proton explosions was accompanied by the hoots and applause of scientists crowded into control rooms at CERN. Read more here.
	Split Personalities Of A Galactic Size A team of astronomers led by Niv Drory of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Kevin Bundy (UC Berkeley), and Alexie Leauthaud (LBNL and BCCP) used data from the COSMOS project to explore the connections between the growth of dark matter halos and the growth of galaxies within these dark matter halos. Weak Lensing Gains Strength Weak gravitational lensing is a uniquely promising way to learn how much dark matter there is in the Universe and how its distribution has evolved since the distant past. Alexie Leauthaud's team has made major progress in extending the use of gravitational lensing to the study of much older and smaller structures than was previously possible. More News and Events	BCCP Cosmology Workshop Student Videos