Pulsars - Astronomical Clocks

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 4th May 2023 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: Hybrid

How scientists make incredibly sensitive measurements of strange physics using the clock-like characteristics of pulsars, fast-rotating neutron stars.

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Speaker: James W McKee

James is a radio astronomer who received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Manchester after completing his physics degree at the University of Hull. He had research posts at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, where he helped develop the CHIME telescope, and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, where he served as the support scientist for the 100-meter Effelsberg Radio Telescope. He returned to the University of Hull in November of last year to accept a lectureship and to carry out more radio pulsar research.