A mountain-sized telescope, under a mile of ice | Jenni Adams | TEDxChristchurch

Ice Cube is, quite literally, the coolest telescope in the world: the size of a mountain, buried in the crystal clear ice of Antarctica, it captures the interactions of the highest-energy neutrinos in the universe. In this fascinating talk, Dr. Jenni Adams talks about where these neutrinos might come from -- and why we should care.
Jenni Adams is an Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy department at the University of Canterbury. Her research interest is in astroparticle physics: the interface between astrophysics and particle physics, where the goal is to learn about the fundamental constituents of matter using the universe as a laboratory. She earned a BSc Hons from the University of Canterbury and DPhil in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where she was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study in 1992. She then became a Post Doctoral Fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden, before returning to the University of Canterbury in 1998.
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