Dr Niall Jeffrey, Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
Dr Jeffery goes into detail about how dark energy and dark matter, two things he is researching extensively, are elusive and that astrophysicists know very little about it. The Dark Energy Survey is a...
15 Joulu 202125min
Dr Peter Doel, Professor of Astronomical Instrumentation at University College London
This episode I spoke to Dr Doel about some of the projects he has been working on. He told me about the considerations that need to be accounted for when retrofitting telescopes as well as how he ente...
18 Loka 202118min
Prof. Marco Cavaglia, Professor of Physics at Missouri University
This episode I spoke to Dr Cavaglia about what the LIGO collaboration is and how it operates, as well as some of the details of the interferometers. He also spoke about the kinds of data cleaning a da...
12 Syys 202124min
Dr Boris Leistedt, Researcher at Imperial College London
I spoke to Dr Leistedt on how statistics plays an important role in astronomy, as well as why astronomy is somewhat unique in comparison to other fields of physics such as particle physics. In additio...
21 Elo 202124min
Dr Pablo Lemos, Postdoctoral research fellow in cosmology at UCL, London
I enjoyed speaking with Dr Pablo Lemos today as he described his work involving dark matter and energy which includes testing models and determining how accurate they are. He also spoke to me about th...
21 Elo 202117min
Dr Constance Mahony, Postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing
In this episode I spoke to Dr Mahony about her work using gravitational lensing to research more into the properties of dark energy and matter. We spoke about some of the work she found challenging an...
6 Heinä 202117min
Aaron Stemo, A PHD candidate at the university of Colorado Boulder
In this episode we talked about how Aaron became involved with his current research and what AGN galaxies are. It was also very interesting about how he used computational techniques to cut down a dat...
3 Touko 202121min
Prof. Benedikt Diemer, Computational astrophysicist as the University of Maryland
In this episode we looked at how astrophysical simulations can never be completely realistic due to the sheer scale of the universe, and how computational astrophysicists have to work around that. Pro...
27 Maalis 202118min
