Event Type: Astrophysics Colloquium
Jeremy Kepner
August 21, 2024“Jeremy Kepner is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow, and founder of the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and SuperCloud, which together constitute the largest supercomputing facility in New England. He is also a founder of the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. He received a PhD in Astrophysics Sciences from Princeton University in 1997, where he worked on
Jenny Greene
August 21, 2024“Jenny Greene is a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, who has done some seminal work on massive black holes and their host galaxies. Interestingly, she teaches algebra at NJ state prisons through the Prison Teaching Initiative.” – Lina Necib The nature of ‘Little Red Dots’ One of the most surprising results from JWST has
Irene Shivaei
June 17, 2024At the core of galaxy evolution is the evolution of the baryonic components that modify the observable properties of galaxies. A crucial component of baryonic matter is the interstellar medium (ISM) that consists of gas and solid-phase metals called dust. Interstellar dust determines how galaxies look like from UV to sub-mm, how the ISM behaves,
James Fuller
June 17, 2024“Professor Jim Fuller is a theoretical astrophysicist based at CalTech with a broad range of interests, including angular momentum transport in stars, pre-supernova outbursts in massive stars, tides in exoplanetary and stellar systems, and asteroseismology, among many other topics.” – Kevin Burdge Stars, planets, and compact objects orbiting with small separations are some of the