Understanding Black Holes and Active Galaxies
Speaker:
Meg Urry
10 Feb 2014
8:00 PM
Dolezal Auditorium, 127 Curtiss Hall
Meg Urry is chair of the Physics Department at Yale University and director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She investigates the formation and evolution of the super-massive black holes that astrophysicists believe anchor each galaxy. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Urry was a senior scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. The first tenured female physicist at Yale, she is also known for her efforts to increase the number of women in the physical sciences, for which she won the 2010 Women in Space Science Award from the Adler Planetarium. Part of the Women in STEM Series.
Meg Urry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and American Women in Science and was awarded the American Astronomical Society's Annie Jump Cannon and George van Biesbroeck prizes. She earned her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and her BS in physics and mathematics from Tufts University. She is the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University.
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