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Speakers

Alex Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University

Alice Bucknell, Artist; SCI-Arc

Andrea Puhm, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Chris Smeenk, Western University

Chung-Pei Ma, UC Berkeley

Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University

Dennis Lehmkuhl, Universität Bonn

Hannah Marcus, Harvard University

Hsin-Yu Chen, University of Texas at Austin

Juan Maldacena, IAS

Matias Zaldarriaga, IAS

Matthew Dodelson, Harvard University

Nick Huggett, University of Illinois at Chicago

Raffaella Margutti, UC Berkeley

Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Gesellschaft

Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute

Roberto Emparan, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona

Sasha Philippov, University of Maryland

Sylvia Biscoveanu, CIERA, Northwestern University

Taught by BHI PI, Andrew Strominger, this course is offered once every few years.

Biography

Laurent Loinard is the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and a member of the Black Hole Initiative (BHI). He is also a professor of astrophysics at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is an expert in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), with a particular focus on VLBI astrometry. He has received a number of awards and accolades, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), the von Humboldt  Foundation Bessel Prize (2011) and the TWAS Prize 2022. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration which obtained the first image of the supermassive blackhole at the center of M87, he shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the 2020 Einstein Medal and the 2021 Group Award of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society. 

More From Laurent

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David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)

Our 7th Annual Conference is now available online on our youtube channel.