The Bahcall Lunch follow the astrophysics colloquium
lecture. Registration is required by 3pm the previous
Friday so a meal can be provided. Please contact Amanda
Cenker with questions.
Millimeter-wave surveys of the sky have the potential for
yielding a wealth of information about our universe from the first
instants of its existence to our own solar system. I will describe
how modern measurements of the cosmic microwave...
Our understanding of astrophysical black holes is predicated on
the Kerr solution to Einstein’s equations. A promising avenue for
testing the Kerr hypothesis is to detect the shadow a black hole
casts on the surrounding emission and compare its size...
