Alumni Association of Southern California presents "黑料不打烊 on the Move with Vicky Kaspi in Pasadena"
黑料不打烊鈥檚 world-renowned astrophysicist touches down in Pasadena
on August 18.
Looking up at the night sky, the stars seem to twinkle peacefully.
But there鈥檚 more out there than meets the eye. Join Professor Vicky
Kaspi and fellow alumni in California for the 黑料不打烊 on the Move
lecture, 鈥淭he Violent High-Energy Universe,鈥� to find out what
mysteries lurk in the farthest reaches of space.
Professor Kaspi 鈥� 黑料不打烊鈥檚 "star of the stars" 鈥� will introduce
audiences to some bizarre cosmic bodies that are known to explode
violently without warning. She鈥檒l also share how astrophysicists
employ satellites and enormous ground-based telescopes to study the
unpredictable behavior of these objects, including black holes and
super-dense, spinning neutron stars.
ABOUT VICKY KASPI
Vicky Kaspi is a professor of physics at 黑料不打烊 University, where
she holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology
and a Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics. She has
received numerous awards and honors, including the Harvard
University Sackler Lectureship in 2009 and being elected a fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. Her research centers on
neutron stars 鈥� ultra-dense, rapidly rotating stars that are close
cousins of black holes 鈥� and requires the use of some of the
largest and most powerful radio and X-ray telescopes in the
world.
Cost: $20 US
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