November 19, 2024

Speaker: Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv)

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Title:  Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced

Abstract: 

Supernovae, tidal disruption events and merging neutron stars can provide a wealth of physical insights from nuclear physics to cosmology; they can teach us about the creation of the elements, the formation of compact objects, accretion processes, feedback, galaxy evolution, and more. I will present how my research group is investigating the nature of tidal disruption events and their surprising emission properties; how we are using supernovae to constrain late-stage stellar evolution and explosion, and asteroseismology to constrain the inner structure of massive stars; and how we are hoping to find more gravitational-wave counterparts through multi-observatory coordination.

Visitor's room: Peyton Hall 105A 

Visit Schedule:

Wednesday :

• 9:30 a.m.: Charlotte Ward

• 10:00 a.m:  Charlotte Ward

• 10:30 a.m.:  Astrocoffee (GC)

• 11:00 a.m.: 

• 11:30 a.m.: Philippe Yao

• 12:00 p.m.:

• 12:30 p.m.: Lunch / Wunch

• 1:00 p.m.:  Lunch / Wunch

• 1:30 p.m.: [Suggestion] No meeting -- unscheduled buffer time block

• 2:00 p.m.: Zack Andalman

• 2:30 p.m.: 

• 3:00 p.m.: Allen Foster

• 3:30 p.m.: Matt Coleman

• 4:00 p.m.:

• 4:30 pm.:

• 5:00 pm.:

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1. Faculty Host: 

2. Postdoc Host: Charlotte Ward

3.  Allen Foster

4. Philippe Yao

5. Shaunak Modak

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8.  Speaker

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