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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
21
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries
Kareem El-Badry
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

The Milky Way contains of order 10^8 stellar-mass black holes (BHs). Yet, fewer than 100 BH candidates are known, and only about 20 are dynamically confirmed. Our view of the BH population has been shaped almost entirely by observations of X-ray...

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...