31 episodes
Exploring Astrophysics Vikram Bhamre
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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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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Exploring Astrophysics and happy holidays to everyone! Today I am joined by Dr Gina Panopoulou, an observational astrophysicist at Chalmers University of Technology who specializes in mapping out the magnetic field of our galaxy.
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Dr Christian Byrnes, Senior lecturer at the University of Sussex
Today I am joined by Dr Christian Byrnes, a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex who’s interest lies in the formation of the early universe.