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

General-public level

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: Gardner.zip. Warning: this file is 137 Mbytes! This is a WinZIP archive, which includes the PowerPoint file and embedded movies.

Updated: 9/13/2007.

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.