Stargazing Party and Black Holes lecture

School of Optometry and Vision Science - Room 347
Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:30 PM EDT 
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Event Details

Explore the night sky with astronomers from the Faculty of Science and Royal Astronomical Society of Canada!

We will meet first in the nearby Optometry building for a short lecture by the Department of Physics and Astronomy's Dr. Brian McNamara: "Thrills and Heartbreak: Black Holes in 2017" (lecture details below). We'll move to the Columbia Fields for stargazing after the lecture. This is a family-friendly event, but if your kids will have trouble sitting through a lecture, you're welcome to join us on the Columbia Fields near Brubacher House around 8:30pm.

Please note that if the skies are cloudy the lecture will still take place on August 9th, but we will not gather on the fields for stargazing. Please register so that we can keep you updated.

**The lecture portion of the evening is sold out. You're welcome to come to the lecture venue and join a waiting line, which will be seated at 7:30 in any extra seats.

Thrills and Heartbreak: Black Holes in 2017

Following a decades long search, LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves emitted by the in-spiral and mergers of a binary black hole was announced last year. The LIGO observatory’s thrilling discovery has opened a new window on the dark Universe. 
At about the same time, the ASTRO-H/Hitomi Observatory was launched from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center on a long-anticipated mission to study black holes.  However, after one month of operation following ground breaking observations of the Perseus Cluster, Hitomi spun out of control and went silent.  I will discuss the results from both observatories, their implications for understanding massive black holes, and prospects for future black hole research.  

Parking will be provided in Lot X, near the lecture venue, and in the OpenText lot on Frank Tompa Drive, north of Brubacher House. It is an easy walk between both parking lots, the lecture, and the fields. Please do not park in the small gravel lot adjacent to the field, as your car lights interfere with our stargazing.

Photo Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)

Speakers

Brian McNamara
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Chair

Location

School of Optometry and Vision Science - Room 347
200 Columbia Street West Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 CA

Tickets

Type
Price
Black Holes Lecture & Stargazing
Free
Stargazing only
Free

Organizer Details

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Science Outreach at UWaterloo

Waterloo Science Outreach provides programs and enrichment activities to increase awareness of the importance and value of Science to society. It also stands to highlight the contributions that Waterloo Science makes to scientific understanding. We are passionate about making science and research an accessible and comprehensible topic for all interested audiences. Through events and public lectures, we provide numerous ways for you to engage in a lifelong discovery of science.