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Physics Seminar presents
Gravitational Wave Observations and the Physics of Neutron Stars

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Guest Speaker: Simone Dall’Osso of SUNY Stony Brook The first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary black hole made by Advanced LIGO has opened the era of GW astronomy. Sources for the current detectors are catastrophic events involving neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH), isolated or in binaries, in which huge

Physics Seminar: 2D materials in the ultraclean limit: basic science and applications

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NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Physics Department Center for Theoretical Physics 2D materials in the ultraclean limit: basic science and applications Presented by: Prof. James Hone Columbia University New York, NY, USA Thursday, March 02 at 1:00 PM Namm, Room 823 Abstract Two-dimensional materials offer a wide range of outstanding properties but are highly

Symposium on Amazing Stories: Inspiration, Learning, and Adventure in Science Fiction

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View Program “By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision ... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are always instructive.” -Hugo Gernsback, 1926. When the widely recognized “Father of Science Fiction,” Hugo Gernsback