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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall and virtually through zoom. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

For questions please contact Sihao Cheng, Jay Wadekar, or Amanda Cenker.

Astrophysics Seminar Archives

Mar
28
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector network has observed over 70 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and mixed neutron star-black holes. Focusing on the black hole mergers, I will describe some recent...

Apr
04
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

A Fresh Look at Galaxy Scaling Relations and What They Reveal about Galaxy Formation
Mike Fall
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Despite the apparent complexity of galaxies, some of their most basic properties (mass M, binding energy E, angular momentum J, etc) obey simple power-law scaling relations. Such relations provide some of the clearest insights into galaxy formation...