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  • 2022 Sep 29

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
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    Yueying Ni Lia Medeiros
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  • 2022 Sep 29

    ITC Colloquium - Lia Medeiros (IAS)

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
    "New test of the black hole metric with EHT images of Sgr A*"

    Our understanding of astrophysical black holes is predicated on the assumption that they are well described by the  Kerr solution to Einstein’s equations. A promising avenue for testing the Kerr hypothesis is to detect the shadow a black hole casts on the surrounding emission and compare its size and shape to the predictions of the Kerr metric. New horizon-scale images of the Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) recently published by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) allow for new strong-field tests... Read more about ITC Colloquium - Lia Medeiros (IAS)
  • 2022 Sep 22

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips

    Kareem El-Badry (Harvard), “A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole"

    Jeremy Dietrich (Arizona), "EDEN: A Transit Survey of Nearby Late M-Dwarf Stars"

    Nathan Sandford (Berkeley), "Stellar Chemistry in the...

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  • 2022 Sep 22

    ITC Colloquium - Yueying Ni, Jake Bennett, and Carol Cuesta-Lazaro

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips and livestreamed

    Yueying Ni (ITC)

    "The ASTRID simulation: the evolution of massive black holes"

    The launch of the next-generation telescopes will soon revolutionize the study of the high-redshift universe and allow us to better understand the evolution of the first galaxies and supermassive black holes. Making full use of future observations will require a new generation of cosmological simulations with large volumes for statistical samples of large structures and with high resolution to model the galaxy formation. In this talk, I will introduce the ASTRID simulation, one of the...

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  • 2022 Sep 15

    ITC Luncheon

    12:30pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Phillips

    Floor Broekgaarden (Harvard), "Which black hole formed first? Hints from unexpected spins"

    Jesse Han (Harvard) , "The Tilt in Our Stars"

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  • 2022 Sep 08

    ITC Colloquium - Carolyn Raithel (IAS)

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips
     
    "Probing Dense Matter with Neutron Star Mergers"

     

    Neutron star mergers provide a unique probe of the dense matter equation of state (EOS) across a wide range of parameter space, from the cold and equilibrated matter of the inspiral, to the shock-heated and higher-density conditions that govern the post-merger evolution. In this talk, I will start with an overview of what we...

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  • 2022 Jun 02

    ITC Colloquium - Anastasia Fialkov (Cambridge)

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Wolbach
    "Unveiling cosmic dawn"

    Abstract:  Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are some of the least explored stages of cosmic history. The faint 21-cm signal of hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic medium provides a unique way to probe these epochs by constraining the thermal and ionization history of the Universe. Once this signal is robustly measured, it will inform us about the early populations of stars, galaxies and black holes. In my talk I will discuss the recent advances in the field of observational and theoretical 21-cm cosmology.

     

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