Past Events

Date
Tuesday, February 13, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Victoria Kaspi

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious new class of extragalactic fast radio transients whose nature is presently unknown.  Here I provide a detailed review of FRB phenomenology and…

Date
Friday, February 9, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Aurora Ireland

Much remains to be understood about the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

Date
Friday, February 9, 2024. 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Emil Martinec

Three separate worldsheet computations illustrate string theoretic aspects of AdS3/CFT2 duality: (1) Hawking radiation of winding strings; (2) BPS fivebrane “stars” near the black hole threshold;…

Date
Tuesday, February 6, 2024. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Roger Blandford

The development of classical electromagnetism and quantum electrodynamics are highpoints of nineteenth and twentieth century physics, respectively.

Date
Friday, February 2, 2024. 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Marios Galanis

Pioneered in the 1950s by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, intensity interferometry refers to the correlation of light intensities incident on two telescopes.