Kartaltepe presents at SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing conference
Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the director of the Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, presented, “Pushing the edge of the cosmic frontier with JWST” at the SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing conference. As the plenary speaker, Kartaltepe presented how the James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier beyond what was possible with Hubble and shared some early results from extragalactic deep surveys and their implications for our understanding of the early universe.
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