Alumni Association of Southern California presents "McGill on the Move with Vicky Kaspi in Pasadena"
McGill’s world-renowned astrophysicist touches down in Pasadena
on August 18.
Looking up at the night sky, the stars seem to twinkle peacefully.
But there’s more out there than meets the eye. Join Professor Vicky
Kaspi and fellow alumni in California for the McGill on the Move
lecture, “The Violent High-Energy Universe,” to find out what
mysteries lurk in the farthest reaches of space.
Professor Kaspi – McGill’s "star of the stars" – will introduce
audiences to some bizarre cosmic bodies that are known to explode
violently without warning. She’ll also share how astrophysicists
employ satellites and enormous ground-based telescopes to study the
unpredictable behavior of these objects, including black holes and
super-dense, spinning neutron stars.
ABOUT VICKY KASPI
Vicky Kaspi is a professor of physics at McGill University, where
she holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology
and a Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics. She has
received numerous awards and honors, including the Harvard
University Sackler Lectureship in 2009 and being elected a fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. Her research centers on
neutron stars – ultra-dense, rapidly rotating stars that are close
cousins of black holes – and requires the use of some of the
largest and most powerful radio and X-ray telescopes in the
world.
Cost: $20 US
Online registration is available on Alumnilife.