How to explore the whole universe: watch COMSO 2013 live

Watch speakers such as Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox this evening as the public symposium of the 17th International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, known as COSMO 2013, is broadcast live on YouTube. The past year has been an extraordinary one for particle physicists and cosmologists, with the Planck satellite revealing the Universe's earliest light, and the tentative discovery of the Higgs-Boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Data collected from LHC experiments and the Planck mission - and their implications for the Universe - will be discussed by some of the giants of cosmology and particle physics during this week's COSMO conference, all of which is being streamed live on YouTube. Alongside the five-day long scientific conference - with days variously focused on Particle Physics, Cosmic Microwave Background, Large-Scale Structure, Primordial Cosmology and Cosmic Acceleration - there will also be a public symposium tonight, which, with speakers such as Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox and Andrew Liddle, will be a highlight of the COSMO YouTube broadcast. Andrew Liddle, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, will open the symposium with a talk on cosmology and the Planck satellite, currently being used to map the relic radiation expelled by the Big Bang. COSMOS 2013 is one of the first opportunities for researchers to gather and discuss the recent discoveries, with other lectures on the Planck data from George Efstathiou (Institute of Astronomy) and Ben Wandelt among others.