Past Events

2020 Sep 15

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Tuan Do (Astronomy) - UC Los Angeles

Title: Testing Fundamental Physics with Orbits at the Galactic Center

Abstract: The closest approach of the star S0-2 to the supermassive black hole Sgr A* in 2018...
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2020 Sep 08

Roundtable discussion among BHI members

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
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Round table discussion among BHI members

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2020 May 20

Special BHI Public Talk by Stephen Wolfram

2:00pm to 3:00pm

It is our pleasure to announce that the Black...
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2020 May 19

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Netta Engelhardt (MIT)

Title: The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Abstract: The black hole information paradox — whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or...
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2020 May 12

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Martin Lesourd (BHI, Harvard)

Title: How Do Black Holes Form ?

Abstract: Mathematical General Relativity is held together by a couple of deep conjectures. Many mathematicians like to think that by...
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2020 May 05

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh (UCSC)

Title: Probing the binary black holes merger rate history with stochastic gravitational wave background searches

Abstract: What is the merger rate of binary black holes (BBHs)...
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2020 Apr 28

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Piotr Chrusciel (University of Wien)

Title: Mass, and its positivity?, for solutions of Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant.

Abstract: I will review the notion of mass for solutions of...
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2020 Apr 21

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Netta Engelhardt (MIT)

Title: The Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in Quantum Gravity

Abstract: Penrose’s conjecture of cosmic censorship — the prediction that naked singularities are hidden behind event horizons...
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2020 Apr 14

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Kevin Nguyen (BHI and Harvard University)

Title: Dynamical damping of the cosmological constant: a proof of concept
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2020 Apr 07

BHI Colloquium

1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location:
BHI Meeting Room

Daniel Palumbo (BHI and Harvard University)

Title: MAD vs. SANE: Discriminating Magnetic Field Configurations in Polarized Simulations of M87

Abstract: In April 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope observed the shadow of the...
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