Space Cafe Tokyo, Jan 2026

"Pointing the world's most expensive telescope at light-bending galaxies"

When a distant celestial object appears as multiple images in the sky, what kind of phenomenon is taking place? Devon Williams (UCLA) will introduce the fascinating phenomenon of multiply-imaged galaxies and explain how these systems allow us to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, accompanied by beautiful images from the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker info:
Devon Williams is currently a PhD student at UCLA. He got his bachelor's in Physics and master's in Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. He did a wide variety of research projects during university to help support his family back home, as he came from a low-income household near Chicago. He has worked on quantum computing, graph theory, telescope instrumentation, and more. The project he enjoyed most was studying the mass in distant galaxies, and so he is now studying extragalactic astrophysics!

Speaker's website: http://astro.ucla.edu/~devon/index.html
Speaker's Instagram: instagram.com/devon.was.taken/

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We will be at Good Heavens British Bar in Shimokitazawa for a space-themed talk + drinks.
Doors open at 7:30pm | Speaker starts at 8pm
Tickets can be purchased at the door for ¥1500 (cash only!) and cover your first drink.