Alumni branch event in Shanghai/ Oxford Academics in China

01月07日

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2015年1月7日星期三 18:30 至 20:30

Logan's Punch Taixing Road 99, Zhangyuan Building A Room 202 (close to Nanjing West Road, Wujiang Road)Shanghai 上海静安区泰兴路99号张园A栋202(近南京西路，吴江路步行街)

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Alumni branch event in Shanghai/ Oxford Academics in China

价格: 免费

Alumni branch event in Shanghai/ Oxford Academics in China

2015年1月7日星期三 18:30 至 20:30

Logan's Punch Taixing Road 99, Zhangyuan Building A Room 202 (close to Nanjing West Road, Wujiang Road)Shanghai 上海静安区泰兴路99号张园A栋202(近南京西路，吴江路步行街)

主办方: Oxford and Cambridge Society of Shanghai 更多活动

价格: 免费

01月07日

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Alumni branch event in Shanghai/ Oxford Academics in China

2015年1月7日星期三 18:30 至 20:30 Logan's Punch Taixing Road 99, Zhangyuan Building A Room 202 (close to Nanjing West Road, Wujiang Road)Shanghai 上海静安区泰兴路99号张园A栋202(近南京西路，吴江路步行街)

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2015年1月7日星期三 18:30 至 20:30

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Alumni branch event in Shanghai/ Oxford Academics in China
Weighing Black Holes
Speaker: Professor Martin Bureau, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford and Lindemann Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Wadham College Oxford.
Wednesday 7 January 2015, 630 - 830 pm
Logan's Punch
Taixing Road 99, Zhangyuan Building A Room 202 (close to Nanjing West Road, Wujiang Road)Shanghai
上海静安区泰兴路99号张园A栋202(近南京西路，吴江路步行街)

This event is presented by the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Shanghai.

Black holes are now known to lurk at the centre of every galaxy, and to play a major role in the evolution of our universe. However, given their intrinsically small size, how this comes about remains shrouded in mystery. Come to this lecture and drinks reception where Professor Bureau will start with a brief look into the properties of light and the high-tech gadgetry that astronomers use to study the cosmos. He will further uncover the supermassive black holes hiding in galaxy centres, along with their importance for galaxy evolution. The current bag of tricks used to weigh black holes will be outlined, and the spectacular observations of the Milky Way black hole presented. Prof Bureau will then present a new, conceptually simple but powerful method to measure black holes developed in Oxford. This will exploit the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the largest ground-based telescope project in existence, for which Europe, North America, and East Asia are all working together. The possibilities are, quite literally, astronomical. Be prepared to weigh your first black hole!

Martin Bureau is a self-described galaxy guru, with an interest in anything and everything galactic. He is particularly interested in using observations and theoretical studies of the gas, stars, and dark matter that make up galaxies to constrain their formation and evolution.
He is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and Lindemann Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Wadham College. He has been in Oxford for a decade, following appointments at Columbia University as a NASA Hubble Fellow and at Leiden University. He obtained his PhD from The Australian National University and is originally from Montreal, Canada.

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