Astrophysics

Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar

March 31, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Dust plays a central role in regulating astrophysical environments across a wide range of scales. In active galactic nuclei (AGN), radiation pressure on dust launches large-scale winds that couple energy from the black hole to the surrounding galaxy...

Abstract: The uniqueness of the Kerr-de Sitter family of  black hole spacetimes as stationary solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations is a crucial ingredient to understanding the final states of positive cosmological constant universes, such as...

Princeton University Seminar in Survey Science

March 30, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

I will discuss the current status of DESI-1, some forecasts for the next set of cosmological constraints from DESI and highlight the southern expansion of the footprint happening between now and December 2028. Then I will present the current plans...