Indian Academy of Sciences
Bangalore
"Chandra: Gentleman, Scholar and Telescope"
Academy Public Lecture by
Professor Roger Blandford
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Stanford
Date : Wednesday, 8th December 2010
Time: 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Abstract: Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, or "Chandra" as he was widely known, was a singular scientist and intellectual. Blessed with formidable mathematical ability and legendary powers of concentration, he was a scientific leader over an unequalled suite of the most challenging astrophysical disciplines. Although he may be most famous for his youthful discovery of a mass limit for white dwarfs and its famous corollary that black holes must exist, for which he was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize, his lifetime contributions to mathematical physics, astrophysics and even the humanities, are even greater. The range and durability of his scholarship was memorialised in the naming of the finest imaging X-ray telescope ever launched. Vignettes from his life will be interspersed with a description of some of the amazing discoveries made by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
About the speaker: Roger Blandford is director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. He oversees research that seeks to answer some of our great cosmic questions: What powered the Big Bang? What are dark matter and dark energy? What is happening around black holes?. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
All are welcome
Bangalore
"Chandra: Gentleman, Scholar and Telescope"
Academy Public Lecture by
Professor Roger Blandford
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Stanford
Date : Wednesday, 8th December 2010
Time: 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Abstract: Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, or "Chandra" as he was widely known, was a singular scientist and intellectual. Blessed with formidable mathematical ability and legendary powers of concentration, he was a scientific leader over an unequalled suite of the most challenging astrophysical disciplines. Although he may be most famous for his youthful discovery of a mass limit for white dwarfs and its famous corollary that black holes must exist, for which he was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize, his lifetime contributions to mathematical physics, astrophysics and even the humanities, are even greater. The range and durability of his scholarship was memorialised in the naming of the finest imaging X-ray telescope ever launched. Vignettes from his life will be interspersed with a description of some of the amazing discoveries made by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
About the speaker: Roger Blandford is director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. He oversees research that seeks to answer some of our great cosmic questions: What powered the Big Bang? What are dark matter and dark energy? What is happening around black holes?. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
All are welcome
Coffee/tea will be served at 5.30 p.m.
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