Golden Webinars in Astrophysics
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Upcoming Golden Webinars in Astrophysics 2021
- Apr 23rd, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Juan Maldacena
"Black Holes, Hawking Radiation and the Nature of Spacetime" - Apr 30th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Roger Penrose
"Wherefore CCC? Space-time Singularities and Conformal Geometry" - May 7th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-4): Reinhard Genzel
"A 40-Year Journey: From Theoretical Predictions to Empirical Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way" - May 14th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Barry C. Barish
"Gravitational Waves: A New Window on Our Universe" - May 21st, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Martin Harwit
"Nature’s Bounds on Transmitted Information: Defining The Limits of Observational Astronomy" - May 28th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Neil Turok
"Marvellous Universe: Our Guide to the Next Revolution in Physics" - GOLDEN WEEK 2021 - May 31, 13:00 CLT (UTC-4): Seth Shostak ("An Alternative Strategy for Finding E.T.")
- GOLDEN WEEK 2021 - Jun 1, 11:00 CLT (UTC-4): Hap McSween ("Exploration of Asteroids by the Dawn Spacecraft: Turning Vesta and Ceres from Astronomical Objects into Geological Worlds")
- GOLDEN WEEK 2021 - Jun 2, 14:00 CLT (UTC-4): Margaret Geller ("Caught in the Cosmic Web")
- GOLDEN WEEK 2021 - Jun 3, 16:00 CLT (UTC-4): Heidi Hammel ("The New Golden Eye in the Sky: Using the James Webb Space Telescope to Explore Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life")
- GOLDEN WEEK 2021 - Jun 4, 12:00 CLT (UTC-4): Ann Druyan ("The Stars or Nowhere: The Mission of Science")
- Jun 11th, 11:00 CLT (UTC-4): Subir Sarkar
"Testing the Cosmological Principle" - Jun 25th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Gustavo Bruzual
- "Stellar Population Synthesis from Nearby to the Visible Edge of the Universe"
- Jul 2nd, 11:00 CLT (UTC-4): Bengt Gustafsson
"Why is the Sun odd?" - Jul 9th, 11:00 CLT (UTC-4): Ewine van Dishoeck
"The journey of water and complex molecules from interstellar clouds to planets" - Jul 16th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-4): Mordehai Milgrom
"New Physics in Plain Sight, You only Have to Look: Breakdown of Newtonian Dynamics and General Relativity in the Realm of the Galaxies" - Jul 23rd, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Michael Strauss
"Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe: The Nature of Quasars at high Redshifts" - Jul 30th, 11:00 CLT (UTC-4): André Maeder
"Exploration of Scale Invariant Effects in Cosmology in Relation with Dark Components" - Aug 13th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Tim Maudlin
"Is Relativity emergent? Hints from Bell’s Theorem and Quantum Theory" - Aug 20th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Lee Smolin
"A World Beyond Space" - Sep 3rd, 15:00 CLT (UTC-4): Priyamvada Natarajan
"Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm on Small Scales" - Sep 24th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Conny Aerts
"The Space Age of Asteroseismology: a Golden Opportunity to Dive Deep into Stars and Measure their Internal Physics" - Oct 1st, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Paul Steinhardt
"Is it Time to take the 'Big Bang' our of the Big Bang Model?" - Oct 8th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-3): Julian Barbour
"Shape Dynamics: Principles and Possibilities of a Radical Unification of Physics and Cosmology" - Oct 15th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Philippe Lognonné
"InSight on Mars: More than 1000 Sols (Mars Days) of Seismic Discoveries" - Oct 22nd, 11:00 CLT (UTC-3): Frances Westall
"Biosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Historical Overview from the Beginnings to the State of the Art" - Oct 29th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-3): Lynnae Quick
"The Role of Cryovolcanism in Creating Habitable Niches on Ocean Worlds in Our and Extrasolar Planetary Systems" - Nov 5th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Rosemary Wyse
"Our Dynamic Milky Way Galaxy: Past, Present and Future" - Nov 12th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-3): Richard Ellis
"The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: When Did Galaxies First Emerge from Darkness?" - Nov 19th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-3): Anton Zeilinger
"From Entangled Quantum Puzzles to Quantum Information" - Nov 26th, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): William G. Unruh
"Black Holes, Hawking Radiation, and Analogues" - Dec 3rd, 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Nima Arkani-Hamed
"Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics and the Future of Fundamental Physics" - Dec 10th, 12:00 CLT (UTC-3): Alan A. Watson
"The Search for the Origin of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays: the Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory"
2022
- Jan 14th, 17:00 CLT (UTC-3): Wendy Freedman
"Tension in the Hubble Constant - Does it mean new Physics?" - Jan 21st: 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Miguel Alcubierre
"Faster than the Speed of Light" - Jan 28th: 15:00 CLT (UTC-3): Chiara Marletto
"Beyond Quantum Computing: the Physics of Can and Can’t" - Mar 25th: 18:00 CLT (UTC-3): Adam Frank
"A Little Talk About Aliens: Life In The Universe, The Search For Technosignatures and Why It Really Matters For Earth's Future" - Apr: Julio Navarro
Watch all previously recorded talks of the "Golden Webinars in Astrophysics" cycle on our YouTube channel
Links available according to language. Spanish translation by Patricio González Guzmán, Interpreter and Director of Serendipia Soluciones (patricio.gonzalez.interprete@gmail.com).
James E. Peebles
- The Expanding Universe - Discovery and Evidence
- El universo en expansión: descubrimiento y evidencia
Volker Springel
- Hydrodynamical Simulations of Galaxy Formation
- Simulaciones hidrodinámicas de la formación de galaxias
Sandra M. Faber
- Galaxy Formation: What is Simple and What remains Outstanding
- Formación de galaxias: lo simple y lo que queda pendiente
Stephen Wolfram
Didier P. Queloz
- Exoplanets, Earth Twins, Pathways for the Origins of Life
- Exoplanetas, Gemelos de la Tierra, Caminos a Orígenes de Vida
R. Brent Tully
- Galaxy Flows and the Formation of Large Scale Structure
- Flujos de galaxias y la formación de estructura a gran escala
Mike Brown
- How the Icy Asteroids of the Solar System point our Way to Planet 9
- Cómo los asteroides helados del sistema solar señalan el planeta 9
William Borucki
Jill C. Tarter
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Roger D. Blandford
Michael C. Nolan
- Twenty Years of Bennu: From Arecibo to Orbit (and Home Again)
- A veinte años del descubrimiento de Bennu
Christopher J. Lintott
- Surprises in Big Data: Adventures in the Zooniverse
- Sorpresas del Big Data: Aventuras en el Zooniverse
Sara Seager
- Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable or Inhabited Worlds: Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases
- Cartografía de las estrellas más cercanas en la búsqueda de mundos habitables y habitados: Exoplanetas y la búsqueda de los biomarcadores atmosféricos
Michael Merrifield
- Observations of Nearby Galaxies – Not Just Beautiful But Also A Key To Their Formation
- Observaciones de galaxias cercanas: no solo hermosas, sino también una clave para su formación
Simon White
- Dark Matter Halos: their Structure and Consequences over 20 Orders of Magnitude in Mass, from those of rich Galaxy Clusters down to that of the Earth
- Halos de materia oscura: sus estructuras y consecuencias en más de 20 órdenes de magnitud de masa, desde los cúmulos ricos de galaxias hasta el de la Tierra
Adam Riess
- New Measurements of the Expansion Rate of the Universe, Hints of New Physics?
- Nuevas mediciones de la tasa de expansión del Universo, ¿indicios de una nueva física?
Joseph Silk
Makoto Yoshikawa
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.
- The Cosmic Ecosystem: Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution Through the Lens of a Scaling Law - 'Isn't Star Formation a Bit Like the Weather?'
- El Ecosistema Cósmico: Formación estelar y evolución galáctica desde la perspectiva de una ley de escalas... '¿No es la formación estelar un poco como el clima?'
Suzanne T. Staggs
- Charting the Trajectory of the Universe with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope — from Initial Conditions through Structure Formation to the Era of Dark Energy Domination
- Trazando la trayectoria del Universo con el Telescopio de Cosmología de Atacama: desde las condiciones iniciales a través de la formación de las estructuras hasta la era de la energía oscura
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- What makes Science special? Why is Science so reliable?
- ¿Qué hace que la ciencia sea especial? ¿Por qué la ciencia es tan confiable?
Alexey Vikhlinin
- Lynx: a Revolutionary X-ray Observatory with the Power to Transform our Understanding of the Cosmos through Unprecedented X-ray Vision into the otherwise Invisible Universe
- Lynx: revolucionario observatorio de rayos X que mejorará nuestra comprensión del cosmos con un novedoso uso rayos X que visibilizará un Universo normalmente invisible
Robert Williams
- Probing the Distant Universe with Hubble Space Telescope
- Sondando el universo distante con el telescopio espacial Hubble
Carlos S. Frenk
- Cosmology at the Crossroads: a Definitive Test of the Identity of Dark Matter
- La cosmología en la encrucijada: una prueba definitiva de la identidad de la materia oscura
Alvio Renzini
- Galaxy Scaling Relations and the Role of Angular Momentum in Galaxy Evolution
- Relaciones de escala de galaxias y el rol del momento angular en su evolución
William H. Press
Jay M. Pasachoff
- Solar Eclipses: Science and Monday’s Spectacle
- Eclipses solares: La ciencia y el espectáculo de este lunes
Stacy McGaugh
- Dark Matter and Gravity: What is the Universe made of, and which is calling the shots?
- Materia oscura y gravedad: ¿De qué está hecho el Universo y quién está al mando?
Daniela Calzetti
- Understanding the Evolution of Galaxies: How to Tease Star Formation out of Dust
- Cómo entender la evolución de las galaxias: Extracción de la formación estelar en base al polvo
Carlo Rovelli
- The Nature and Evolution of Black Holes: Implications and Observational Tests from Loop Quantum Gravity
- Naturaleza y evolución de los agujeros negros: inferencias y pruebas obersvacionales en base a la gravedad de lazos
Martin Rees
Avi Loeb
- Extraterrestrial Life: Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar?
- Vida extraterrestre: ¿Realmente somos el hoyo del queque?
Marcelo Gleiser
- The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
- La isla del conocimiento: los límites de la ciencia y la búsqueda de sentido
Shep Doeleman
- The Event Horizon Telescope: From First Images of Black Holes to Real Time Video
- El Telescopio del Horizonte de Eventos: de las primeras imágenes de agujeros negros a videos en tiempo real
Eline Tolstoy
- Fossils of Galaxy Formation: Faint Dwarf Galaxies around the Milky Way
- Fósiles de la formación galáctica: Galaxias enanas tenues alrededor de la Vía Láctea
Alan Dressler
- Exploring Origins and Seeing the Birth of Galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
- Explorando los orígenes y viendo el nacimiento de las galaxias con el telescopio espacial James Webb
Sabine Hossenfelder
- Is Dark Matter Real?
- ¿Es real la materia oscura?
Karen Meech
- The Archaeology of Habitable Worlds: Using Small Bodies to Unlock the Past
- La arqueología de los mundos habitables: el uso de pequeños cuerpos para descubrir el pasado
Megan Urry
- Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe
- Agujeros negros, galaxias y la evolución del universo
Pavel Kroupa
- From Belief to Realism and Beauty: Given the Non-Existence of Dark Matter, how do I navigate amongst the Stars and between Galaxies?
- De la creencia al realismo y la belleza: dada la inexistencia de la materia oscura, ¿cómo navegar entre las estrellas y entre las galaxias?
Joel Primack
- New Challenges in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planetary Science
- Nuevos desafíos en cosmología, formación de galaxias y ciencia planetaria