Exploring Astrophysics

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Join me as I learn about the world of Astrophysics. My name is Vikram Bhamre and I am 18 years old. On my podcast, Exploring Astrophysics, I chat with some of the most incredible astrophysicists around the world on the most interesting questions left unanswered in astrophysics. What's amazing is how helpful and forthcoming they all are and I hope you too are inspired when you listen to them.

  1. Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech

    26/05/2023

    Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech

    Welcome to episode 30 of exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Today I am joined by Dr. Kareem El-Badry, a researcher who works mostly in the analysis of binary star systems and has obtained the nickname ‘Black hole destroyer’ for some of his past work. Stay tuned to hear more about that!

    26 min
  2. Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech

    03/05/2023

    Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech

    Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of exploring astrophysics. Today I am speaking to Dr Lynne Hillenbrand, a professor of Astronomy at Caltech who is an expert in the formation and evolution of young stars and the formation of star clusters. Dr. Hillenbrand spoke to me about trying to learn more about the evolution of these young stars, whose processes are often hidden behind dust and gasses from the Nebula it is in. Her work is partly focus on the properties of the circumstellar disc, a disc of gas and dust that rotates around a young star.

    32 min
  3. Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University

    26/03/2023

    Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University

    Today I am joined by Dr Maria Charisi, a postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt university. Her expertise is in looking for Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries: which are systems that are formed during the collisions of galaxies and weigh well over hundreds of millions of times our Sun. Dr Charisi also talked about her experience in academia and how she would describe it to someone potentially looking for a career in research.

    22 min
  4. Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

    20/02/2023

    Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

    In this episode, Dr Simcoe spoke about his research involving spectroscopy to look back into the early universe and search for the first stars. He also spoke about another interest of his - designing and building astronomical telescopes and instruments - and how it first began when he was still in high school. Lastly, he gave us a sneak peek into the job of a director of a huge astrophysics department like MIT's Kavli institute and the work that goes in to managing it.

    24 min
  5. Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology

    27/12/2022

    Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology

    In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in our galaxy. We talked about the difficulties of doing this, including the limited information the polarisation of light can convey and how hard it is to check the accuracy of any results.

    17 min
  6. Dr Christian Byrnes, Senior lecturer at the University of Sussex

    19/10/2022

    Dr Christian Byrnes, Senior lecturer at the University of Sussex

    Dr Byrnes talked about his journey to astrophysics having initially started out with a Mathematics degree at the University of Cambridge. He also talked about his research looking at the early universe - particularly the inflation period. Towards the end, he mentioned his work into primordial black holes and whether they may be the key to finding out about dark matter.

    23 min
  7. Dr Javier Garcia, Assistant professor of physics at Caltech

    11/09/2022

    Dr Javier Garcia, Assistant professor of physics at Caltech

    Dr Garcia has been looking at the gravitational fields near black holes and neutron stars to better understand the phenomenon we see in these unordinary circumstances. He talked about his transition from atomic physics to X-ray astrophysics, and what he has been working on recently. Stay tuned till the end of the episode, where he gives advice on what you can do to get involved in research.

    26 min
  8. Dr Kathy Romer, Professor at the university of Sussex

    17/07/2022

    Dr Kathy Romer, Professor at the university of Sussex

    Dr Romer shared some of her most exciting and coolest experiences as an astrophysicist, including a trip to the south pole! She also mentioned how in the past astronomers would have to travel to the obersevations sites in places like Chile to take the images, rather than having it all automated from your office. Dr Romer spoke about the recent James Webb space telescope images, and her reaction and thoughts to seeing the amazing pictures.

    26 min
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Join me as I learn about the world of Astrophysics. My name is Vikram Bhamre and I am 18 years old. On my podcast, Exploring Astrophysics, I chat with some of the most incredible astrophysicists around the world on the most interesting questions left unanswered in astrophysics. What's amazing is how helpful and forthcoming they all are and I hope you too are inspired when you listen to them.

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  • Creado por
    Vikram Bhamre
  • Años en activo
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodios
    31
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Derechos de autor
    © Vikram Bhamre
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Exploring Astrophysics