"Fantastic black holes and how to find them"
While black holes speak a lot to the imagination, actually finding them is not easy, as they emit no light. This month, Soetkin Janssens (University of Tokyo) will briefly explain some of the most common discovery techniques used nowadays, and give some examples of black holes we found.
Speaker info:
Soetkin Janssens is from Belgium and did her master's and PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she also did one exchange year in Finland during her master's. Now she has been here in Tokyo for a postdoc for over a year already. She mostly works on observations of binaries with massive stars -- stars which will collapse into black holes and neutron stars -- where one star already collapsed. Through a JSPS fellowship, she landed a position in Japan, where she continued her work in the same direction.
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We will be at Good Heavens British Bar in Shimokitazawa for a space-themed talk + drinks.
Doors open at 7:30pm | Speaker starts at 8pm
Tickets can be purchased at the door for ¥1500 and cover your first drink.
