Public Lecture
Exploring the Fourth Dimension: TIME
Raffaella Margutti
University of California Berkeley
Wed, Aug 14, 5:30–6:30pm
Time-domain astrophysics pertains to the most violent phenomena in our Universe, including stellar eruptions, disruptions, explosions, and mergers. Combining multiple messengers of information (including light, particles, and gravitational waves), it constitutes a new frontier of discovery in Astrophysics. In this event Margutti will explore some of the most recent advances in the field, and we will discuss some of the most exciting directions of research that will open up in the near future.
About Raffaella Margutti
Raffaella Margutti received her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics in 2006 (magna cum laude), and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2010. Margutti is a Sloan Fellow in Physics (2019), a CIFAR global scholar in Gravity and the Extreme Universe (2019), she received the NSF Career award in 2019, and received the 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Astronomy Department and in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley, and she holds the title of Marc and Cristina Bensadoun Professor in Physics.
Heinz R. Pagels Public Lecture Series
Heinz R Pagels was a professor of physics at Rockefeller University, president of the New York Academy of Science, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Center for Physics for twenty years, serving as a participant, officer, and trustee. He was also President of the International League for Human Rights. His work on chaos theory inspired the character of Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park book and movies. A part-time local resident, Professor Pagels died here in a mountaineering accident in 1988. His family and friends instituted the lecture series in his honor because he devoted a substantial part of his life to effective public dissemination of scientific knowledge.
