2021 Dec 13

BHI Colloquium

11:00am to 12:00pm

Lieke van Son (Astronomy) - Harvard University

Title: The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter.

Abstract: Current gravitational wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, and third-generation detectors promise to probe BBH mergers across all redshifts of interest to stellar mass BHs. The redshift evolution of the BBH merger rate contains valuable information on the BH progenitors and their...

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2021 Nov 08

BHI Colloquium

11:00am to 12:00pm

Razieh Emami (Astronomy) - BHI

Title: Probing the Physics near to the SMBHs

Abstract: The most recent...

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Paul Tiede

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

paul.tiede@cfa.harvard.edu

Brandon Curd

Graduate Student

brandon.curd@cfa.harvard.edu

Hyerin Cho

Graduate Student

Hyerin Cho is a Ph.D. student at Harvard Astronomy and she is originally from Korea. Her research interest lies in high-energy astrophysics, which spans... Read more about Hyerin Cho

hyerin.cho@cfa.harvard.edu

2021 Nov 01

BHI Colloquium

11:00am to 12:00pm

Ken Ng (Astronomy) - MIT

Title: Tracing the high-redshift binary black hole populations using the next-generation gravitational-wave detectors...

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David Kaiser

Professor of Physics, MIT
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science
Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of several award-winning books on the... Read more about David Kaiser

Personal Website

dikaiser@mit.edu

Matthew Stanley

Professor, New York University

Matthew Stanley teaches and researches the history and philosophy of science. He holds degrees in astronomy, religion, physics, and the history of science and... Read more about Matthew Stanley

Personal Website

ms5100@nyu.edu

Priyamvada Natarajan

Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University
Director, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, Yale University

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Abraham (Avi) Loeb

Founding Director (and current Senior Faculty) of the Black Hole Initiative
Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), and Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
Former Chair, Department of Astronomy (2011-2020)

Research Interests:
Professor Loeb has published more than 800 papers and 8 books on a broad range of research areas in theoretical...

Freek Roelofs

Fellow, Black Hole Initiative

Freek Roelofs obtained his PhD degree at Radboud University in the Netherlands in 2020. His general research interests include simulation and analysis of Event... Read more about Freek Roelofs

freek.roelofs@cfa.harvard.edu

Dominic Chang

Graduate Student

Dominic Chang is a graduate student in the physics department at Harvard University. He is a collaborator with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) which...