High Energy Phenomena Seminar Schedule

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Date Speaker Title Special Note
Wed 01/27/2021
  1. Javier Garcia (CalTech)
  2. Shifu Zhu (Penn State U.)
  1. X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy of Black Hole Binaries
  2. The Lx–Luv–Lradio relation and corona–disc–jet connection in optically selected radio-loud quasars

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Wed 02/03/2021
  1. Dheeraj Pasham (MIT)
  2. Dan Wik (U. Utah)
  1. Dedicated multi-wavelength observations of tidal disruption events to study accretion state transitions in individual supermassive black holes
  2. A Novel Measurement of the Cosmic X-ray Background from 3-40 keV with NuSTAR

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Wed 02/10/2021
  1. Martin Pohl (U. Potsdam/DESY)
  2. Thomas Pasini (U. Hamburg)
  1. Magnetic-field structure and electron heating at collisionless shocks
  2. A first view at the core of A1668: offset cooling and AGN feedback

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Wed 02/17/2021
  1. Karri Koljonen (U. of Turku)
  2. Lindsay Glesener (U. of Minnesota)
  1. What is going on with GRS 1915+105?
  2. Studying Small-Scale Energy Release in Solar Hard X-ray Flares

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Wed 02/24/2021
  1. Aurora Simionescu (SRON)
  2. Wen-fai Fong (Northwestern U.)
  1. The mechanical impact of supermassive black hole jets and lobes
  2. Searching Near and Far for Kilonova Emission from Neutron Star Mergers

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Wed 03/03/2021
  1. Alexandre Marcowith (U. Montpellier)
  2. Susanne Aalto (Chalmers University of Technology)
  1. Energetic particles and Cosmic Rays in young stellar objects.
  2. Thick as thieves - unveiling the most compact and obscured galaxy nuclei

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Wed 03/10/2021
  1. Yue (Cory) Zhao (U. of Alberta)
  2. Elisa Costantini (SRON)
  1. Identification of X-ray sources in Galactic globular clusters
  2. The X-ray view of interstellar dust

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Wed 03/31/2021
  1. Santiago Ubach Ramirez (CfA/UA Barcelona)
  2. Rafaella Morganti (ASTRON)

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Wed 04/07/2021
  1. Satoru Katsuda (Saitama University)
  2. Anna Lia Longinotti (UNAM)

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Wed 04/14/2021
  1. Marat Gilfanov (IKI/MPA)
  2. Elena Rasia (INAF-Trieste)

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Wed 04/21/2021
  1. Stephen Reynolds (North Carolina State U.)

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Wed 04/28/2021
  1. Mojegan Azadi (CfA)
  2. Georgia de Nolfo (NASA/GSFC)

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Wed 05/05/2021
  1. Paul Ricker (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Wed 05/12/2021
  1. Alexander Lutovinov (RAS/IKI)
  2. Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (U. of Montreal)

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Wed 05/19/2021
  1. Lia Corrales

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