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Dec
04
2025

Princeton University Thunch Talk

Probing the Oldest Black Holes with Detailed Modeling of AGN Variability
Zachary Stone
12:00pm|Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Abstract: AGN variability presents a unique way to investigate the motion and structure of accreted material onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) across cosmic time. Reverberation mapping (RM) is a technique which...

Dec
05
2025

Princeton University Galread [Galactic/Extragalactic Reading Group]

TBA
Hollis Akins
11:00am|Zoom and Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Each week, we hold a relatively informal seminar/discussion series with an emphasis on extra-galactic and large-scale structure astrophysics.

During Galread a leader/visitor presents a recent paper to the discussion group. The PDF of the paper is...

Dec
05
2025

Princeton University Astroplasmas Seminar

Role of Nonlinear Landau Damping for Cosmic-Ray Transport
Benedikt Schroer
12:30pm|Dome Room, Peyton Hall or Zoom

Abstract: The self-confinement picture of cosmic-ray transport often hinges on the linear theory of growth and damping of magnetic perturbations. Especially the balance between the growth of the resonant streaming instability and non-linear Landau...

Dec
08
2025

Princeton University Gravity Initiative Seminar

Cryptographic tests of the python's lunch conjecture
Michelle Xu
12:30pm|Jadwin Hall, Princeton Gravity Initiative, 4th Floor

Abstract: In AdS/CFT, a spacetime geometry is said to contain a python's lunch when there exist choices of boundary regions with associated entanglement wedges that contain locally but not globally minimal surfaces. Previously, such geometries have...

Feb
12
2026

Princeton University Donald R. Hamilton Colloquium Series

Supernova Explosion Theory: The Emergence of Insight from Complexity
Adam Burrows
4:00pm|Jadwin Hall A-10

Abstract: The theory of compact-object birth and core-collapse supernovae is now entering a new and productive phase of rapid insight into themechanism and systematics of explosion. The panoramic perspective provided by the recent access to tens of...