Events
Cosmic Fireworks
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology
VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Our dynamic universe is adorned by cosmic fireworks: energetic and ephemeral beacons of light that are a million (nova) to a billion (supernova) times brighter than our Sun. Fireworks synthesize most elements in our periodic table – while supernovae synthesize the lighter elements, neutron star mergers synthesize half the elements in the periodic table heavier than iron. Dr. Kasliwal will share with us how she discovered cosmic fireworks with robotic telescopes and how she undertook a global, panchromatic follow-up campaign to characterize the astrophysics and astrochemistry. Dr. Kasliwal will describe a brand new wide-field infrared surveyor, Palomar Gattini-IR, and the next generation WINTER, DREAMS, and Cryoscope surveyors. She will also discuss combining information from multiple messengers: light, neutrinos and gravitational waves.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Talk starts at 5:00 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time
Join by zoom at https://bit.ly/Keck-Kasliwal
This talk will also be streamed live on our Facebook Page
