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 […]

  • Time Travel Adventures with the James Webb Space Telescope

    Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies remains one of the great challenges of modern cosmology. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has launched a revolution in the study of the first galaxies in the universe, providing unprecedented insights into our cosmic origins. I will review some of the latest results from JWST on the […]