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Bicentennial Mini-Science: The Future of Space: Exploring the Black Hole Frontier

Thursday, May 13, 2021 18:00to19:00
Daryl Haggard

°Â¾±³Ù³óÌý, Associate Professor of Physics in the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Space Institute

Dr. Haggard's ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Extreme Gravity and Accretion group investigates the most extreme endpoints for matter in the Universe, black holes and neutron stars, employing cutting-edge observational tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity and of plasma and accretion physics and pushing these black hole frontiers. Dr. Haggard will offer a brief, fun overview of her group's black hole studies and describe what future black hole studies may look like.

Daryl Haggard is an Associate Professor of Physics at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University and the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Space Institute. Her research focuses on black holes and neutron stars and leads multi-wavelength and time-domain studies regarding supermassive black holes and their expansion. In 2019, through the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration her team was able to report an image of a black hole’s shadow in 2019; she was honoured by La Presse for this discovery as Personalité de la semaine. Professor Haggard also co-led the identification of the first X-Ray counterpart of the first neutron star merger of GW170817; this earned her team a Top 10 Discovery of 2018 award by Québec Science and was Science Magazine’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. She has been honoured in her contributions to science with a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Award in the Gravity and the Extreme Universe Program as well as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. In 2020, her Event Horizon Telescope team received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

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