Blast 2024 BHI Fellow Symposium

CMSA Seminar Room G-02 (Basement Level)

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
9:30 – 9:35 a.m. Opening remarks by BHI Director Peter Galison
9:35 – 9:40 a.m. Overview of BLAST workshops by organizer BHI PI Priya Natarajan
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. – Evita Verheijden Cryptographic Censorship
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. – Prashant Kocherlakota Universality of Energy Extraction through Outflows in Black Hole Spacetimes
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. – Helen Meskhidze Beyond Classification and Prediction: The Promise of Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy and Cosmology
SHORT COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. – Daniel Palumbo Prospects for the Measurement of Light Orbiting a Black Hole
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. – Angelo Ricarte Spin Evolution in a MAD Universe
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. – Kung-Yi Su Suppression of cooling flows by cosmic rays in jet cocoon shock fronts
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. – Atul Sharma Advances in celestial holography
11:45 – 12:00 p.m. – Sasha Plavin Multimessenger Signatures of Hadrons in AGN Jets at Multiple Scales
12:00 pm – 1 p.m. – LUNCH AT THE BHI (2nd Floor)

ORGANIZER: BLack holes Across Space and Time Series – Priya Natarajan, External PI, BHI
With support from the John Templeton Foundation & The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Biography

Helen has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Logic and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to this, she completed her MA in Philosophy at Western University. She is interested in the foundations of spacetime theories and modified theories of gravity. Her dissertation work focused on modified gravitational theories that allow torsion in the spacetime. She also works on the epistemology of large-scale simulations in astrophysics/cosmology, especially in how we can increase our trust in such simulations by means of methods like code comparison.