Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm
Live or on-line via Zoom
Seeing the Invisible: What does a Black Hole look like?
Eliot Quataert, PhD
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy
Princeton University
Prof. Quataert is an astrophysics theorist who works on a wide range of problems, including stars and black holes, accretion theory, plasma astrophysics, and how galaxies form, using both analytic calculations and numerical simulations. He received his undergraduate degree at MIT and PhD from Harvard and was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study. After being on the faculty at UC Berkeley, he moved to Princeton in 2020.
The meeting will begin with club news and Bob Kelly’s “What’s in the Sky” presentation. Come at 7:00 p.m. to meet and greet fellow club members and guests. There will be door prizes!
On line access: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83533872866?pwd=SCC5tHAZdgTqxM5Ok3GVttJo4NAk2N.1
Date: Friday, December 13, 2024
Location:
David Pecker Conference Hall, Willcox Hall, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
861 Bedford Road
Pleasanville, NY 10570