Alice Shapley

  • Professor / UCLA Physics and Astronomy

Professor Alice Shapley is from the Physics and Astronomy department at UCLA. Her interests lie in galaxy formation and evolution, feedback processes in starburst galaxies, stellar populations and chemical evolution at high redshift, and the evolution of the inter-galactic medium at high redshift.

Sessions

  • Going Back in Time to the First Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes

    Astronomers use telescopes as a tool to travel back in time to the beginning of the universe — which is almost 14 billion years in the past. The James Webb Space Telescope in particular has given us a completely unprecedented view of the first billion years of cosmic time. We are starting to understand how […]