Science on the Edge -Searching for Dark Energy, Naked Black Holes, and other Discoveries Worthy of Science Fiction
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Wednesday, November 13 | 7:30-9pm
Speaker: Karl Gebhardt, Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Astrophysics, Astronomy Department, University of Texas
Speaker Bio:
Professor Karl Gebhardt grew up in Rochester, NY. His career has taken him through Michigan State University, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, University of California at Santa Cruz, and eventually to University of Texas in 2000, where he is now the Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Astronomy. He works on a variety of galaxy studies, ranging from black holes to dark matter to dark energy. He has won numerous awards, including Northeaster Graduate Schools Dissertation Award (1995), a Hubble Fellowship from NASA (1997), Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Texas (2003) and McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors (2004), and a National Science Foundation Career Award.
In 2012, he received the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Science from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. He works with numerous undergraduate and graduate students, and involves them in all levels of his research. Most of his career has focused on understanding the role that black holes play in the formation of a galaxy. He has measured more black hole masses than anyone in the world. His current work is focused on understanding dark energy with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). This unique approach to studying dark energy is designed to measure any evolution of the expansion of the universe, and to illuminate one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time.
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