The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by Copernicus, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, feature in a new film, released today, celebrating 600 years of Cambridge University Library.

New window on the universe is opened with the observation of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – caused by the collision of two black holes. 

Professor Michael Cates FRS, FRSE, a distinguished theoretical physicist who is a world leader in the study of soft matter, has been elected the 19th holder of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Professor Michael Green.

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.

A memorial tree-planting ceremony honouring the life and friendship of Dennis S. Avery, who died in 2012, was hosted by The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) last weekend.

Professor Stephen Hawking has been presented with a special and unique birthday present by Intel.

Symposium will focus on ‘The State of the Universe’.