On Monday, July 01, 2024, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place.
Speaker is Dr. Laura Spitler (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) on the topic "FAST RADIO BURSTS: UNRAVELING AN ASTROPHYSICAL MYSTERY"..
Fast radio bursts are short-duration, radio transients emitted by so-far unidentified
astrophysical sources. What is well established is that their origins are in distant
galaxies and at least a sub-set of the sources repeat. Significant progress has been
made in the field in the last six years thanks to several new surveys dedicated to
discovering and localizing fast radio bursts. I will give a brief status update of the field
and highlight the work we are doing at the MPIfR with the Effelsberg 100-m radio
telescope to understand repeating fast radio bursts. I will also briefly mention how fast
radio bursts can be used as cosmological probes.
Abstract of the presentation by Dr. Spitler.
The introduction will be given by Prof. Dr. Anna Franckowiak.
The faculty cordially invites all interested parties. The event will take place in the lecture hall HNB. We offer coffee and cookies before the colloquium.
All dates of the Physics Colloquium can be found here.