Talks on the James Webb Space Telescope and Cosmology by Jonathan P. Gardner

General-public level

For a general-public level talk entitled, "A scientific revolution: the Hubble, Herschel and James Webb Space Telescopes.", download this zip file. The file is 64 Mbytes. You will also need to get the deployment video from the JWST project website here.

Updated: 6/10/2009.

For a general-public level talk entitled, "Finding our Origins with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope", download  FindingOrigins.zip. Warning: the file is 220 Mbytes! There are a lot of embedded movies, which you can see best if you display in "Slide Show" mode.

PowerPoint only (no movies) [ppt], 20 Mbytes.

Updated: 10/17/2005.

For a general-public level talk entitled, "The Beginning and End of the Universe". This is an overview of cosmology in two parts. Part 1 is the overview, part 2 focuses on Inflation and Dark Energy. This is in three files: Part 1 is Gardner_TSA_071017_Talk1.zip, (100 MBytes). Part 2 begins with a movie, BeyondEinstein.zip, (370 MBytes), and then the talk is: Gardner_TSA_071017_Talk2.zip (240 MBytes). These are WinZIP files, which unpack into the PresentationCD PowerPoint format.

Updated: 11/1/2007.

College Undergraduate level

For a slightly more advanced version of the above talk. JWST_Overview_2005.zip. 105 Mbytes.

Updated: 7/1/2005.

A more recent, but shorter version at the undergraduate level. Undergraduate.zip, 55 Mbytes.

Updated 6/8/2007.

Astronomer or Physicist level

For a professional-level talk entitled, "Studying Galaxy Evolution with the Hubble, Spitzer and James Webb Space Telescopes", download this file: JWST_Prof.zip. Warning: this file is 100 Mbytes! This is a WinZIP archive, which includes the PowerPoint file and embedded movies.

Updated: 9/17/2008.

15 minute version: For a shortened version of the above talk, get these two files:15Minute.zip and [JWST_full.avi].

Updated: 5/19/2006.

Videos

A video showing the deployment of JWST, followed by the mirror segment manufacturing [avi] (88 Mbytes).

A photon's view of the JWST NIRSpec Instrument [avi] (29 Mbytes).

More information: http://jwst.gsfc.nasa.gov.