Professor Carlos S. Frenk (born October 27, 1951) is a world-famous Mexican-British cosmologist who has given invited lectures at major international conferences thoroughout the world. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation. October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Cosmology is the study of the large-scale structure and history of the universe. ... Cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. ... In astrophysics, the questions of galaxy formation and evolution are: How, from a homogeneous universe, did we obtain the very inhomogeneous one we live in? How did galaxies form? How do galaxies change over time? The formation of galaxies is still one of the most active research areas in astrophysics... A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program which attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. ...
He is currently the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics and Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at the University of Durham and Principal Investigator of the Virgo Consortium. Durham University is a university in England. ...
He received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1981. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Carlos is currently married,with 2 children of names David and Stephen Frenk. The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...
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