About the presenter:

Örs Hunor Detre is a physicist and astronomer. As a scientist with an engineer’s heart, he has been working on James Webb Space Telescope for 15 years as the Electrical Lead of the Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI). He is one of the 10.000 scientists and engineers who helped the birth of JWST, hold her hand during its journey onto orbit, and was present during her first heartbeats. He is a member of the testing, commissioning, and science team of MIRI. He has been working at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany since 2008.

Örs Hunor Detre (front)

Webinar content:

The James Webb Space Telescope is an infrared space telescope with a giant, 6.5-meter primary mirror, the successor of the famous Hubble Space Telescope. Webb is truly among the greatest technical challenges of mankind. Its size is enormous, even its primary and secondary mirrors had to be folded to fit into a rocket. It was launched on 2021 Christmas, with a roaring Ariane 5 rocket, and then had to be unfolded in space with unprecedented precision. The challenges did not end here, the commissioning is still ongoing until 2022 Summer. Webb has become a new, unparalleled eye of mankind, capable of seeing the most distant galaxies of our Universe. This webinar will reveal the challenges of the development, and what we have already seen and will be able to see with Webb.

James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror

REGISTRATION

Date of the webinar: Tuesday, 17 May 2022 between 14:00 and 16:00 pm (CET). After the presentation, we will have a 30 min. live Q&A session, when the presenter will answer your questions.

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Registration deadline: Sunday, 15 May 2022 23:00 p.m. (CET).