Sherry SuyuSimons Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute
Associate Professor, Technische Universität München
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
(IPM/PI/WCA)
(UW)
Mike Rossi graduated UW Physics in 2011, and went on to found Smile.io, where he is the current CEO. Smile.io builds reward program software for thousands of eCommerce businesses around the word - rewarding 10s of millions of online shoppers each year. The company has 60 employees, and is growing rapidly.
Alán Aspuru-GuzikCanada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical & Quantum Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto
Seshadri NadathurDennis Sciama Fellow
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
University of Portsmouth
JJ KavelaarsHerzberg Astrophysics
Clusters of galaxies are the largest and most massive systems in the Universe. Most baryonic matter in such systems is in a form of very hot, X-ray emitting gas. Such gas is almost fully ionized, has very low density and is weakly magnetized. The large sizes of the clusters make them unique laboratories to probe plasma properties on microscales. These properties are largely unknown, however, are important for understanding many astrophysical phenomena and their numerical modeling.
Randall KamienVicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
You are invited to hear the once-in-a-lifetime story of how Avery Broderick, Professor, University of Waterloo, peered millions of light years across space to help solve one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos — that black holes exist.