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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.
RSVP/Pre-Register:
July 6, 2009 to August 17, 2009
Limit of four tickets per registration.
General ticket: $20.00 USD.
All credit card payments will be charged in Canadian dollars equivalent of $23.26 CAD cancellation policy: 48 hours advance notice is required.
Web link: http://www.universityclubpasadena.com/index.lasso?page=content
Contact:
• Event Registrar
Phone: (514) 398-7684,
Email: event.registration@mcgill.ca