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Raffaella Margutti
The universe is not static; it is exploding, erupting, and colliding in real time. Time-domain astrophysics studies the cosmos's most violent phenomena, from stellar eruptions and exploding stars to catastrophic black hole and neutron star mergers. By decoding messages sent across the universe in light, subatomic particles, and ripples in spacetime (gravitational waves), we are unlocking a dynamic new era of discovery. Join us as we explore the latest cosmic breakthroughs and glimpse the thrilling future of watching the night (and day!) sky unfold in high definition.
Speaker Bio
Raffaella Margutti received her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics in 2006 (magna cum laude), and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2010. Margutti is a Sloan Fellow in Physics (2019), a CIFAR global scholar in Gravity and the Extreme Universe (2019) and received the 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.
