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Gabriela González, Louisiana State University
Albert Einstein predicted a century ago the existence of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime moving at the speed of light. It was believed that these ripples...
Oct 23, 2019
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: University of Oxford
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, winner of the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, is an accomplished scientist and champion for women in physics. As a graduate student in 1967, she...
Oct 25, 2018
Avery Broderick: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Dr. Avery Broderick will provide a highly accessible and interesting lecture on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and international efforts to interpret horizon-resolving images of numerous supermassive black holes. Black...
Oct 03, 2018
Art McDonald: A Deeper Understanding of the Universe from 2 km Underground
By creating an ultra-clean underground location with a highly reduced radioactive background, otherwise impossible measurements can be performed to study fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)...
Apr 13, 2016
Erik Verlinde: A new view on gravity and the dark side of the cosmos
Are we standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on space, time, and gravity? In most circumstances, the theories of Einstein and...
Oct 04, 2017
The Invisible Universe
A hundred years ago, we believed that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, constituted the entire universe. We believed that the universe was stagnant. We did not know about the...
Mar 03, 2021
Mapping the Universe with eBOSS
As Douglas Adams correctly wrote in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you...
Apr 07, 2021
Elizabeth Tasker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Since the discovery of the first exoplanets in the early 1990s, we have detected more than 4,000 worlds beyond our solar system. Many of these are similar in size to...
Nov 06, 2019
Neil Turok: The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything
Fundamental physics has reached a turning point. The most powerful experiments ever devised are revealing the structure of the universe with unprecedented clarity. On the largest scales – the whole...
Oct 07, 2015
Victoria Kaspi: The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are a celestial gift to scientists. These incredibly dense collapsed stars act as very precise cosmic beacons that help shed light on some of the most challenging problems...
Feb 03, 2016