Megan Urry: Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe

Dr. Urry is an American astronomer, whose research interests focus on active galaxies, hosting accreting supermassive black holes in their centers. She is known worldwide for proposing a unified model to describe radio-loud AGNs in 1995, a milestone on the road to their understanding. She is also known for her research on blazars and the physics and properties of their relativistic jets. Her group, together with collaborators all around the world, makes use of both ground- and space-based instruments to conduct multi-wavelength surveys, measure line widths to derive black-hole masses, and analyze the dominant radiation components. The interpretation of the results leads to the development of models for the evolution of black-hole growth over cosmic time, also with the aid of machine learning techniques. Throughout her career, she was awarded several prizes for her scientific activity, including the Annie Jump Cannon and George van Biesbroeck prize from the American Astronomical Society, and the Howard R. Lamar award from Yale University. She also stands out for her efforts to make science accessible to women and minorities.

08:20 - beginning of the presentation
01:01:55 - beginning of the Q&A

Spanish version: TBD

The panel of our 'Golden Webinar' consisted of:
• Megan Urry – Speaker
• Patricio Gonzalez ([email protected]) – Interpreter
• Thomas H. Puzia – Co-host, Faculty at the Institute of Astrophysics (IA)
• Demetra De Cicco – Co-host, Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Simón Ángel – Q&A manager, Outreach Team IA
• Ricardo Acevedo – Q&A manager, Outreach Team IA
• Ezequiel Treister – Faculty at IA
• Franz Bauer – Faculty at IA
• Elizabeth Artur de la Villarmois – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Paula Ronco – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Timothy Hewlett – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Paulina Lira – Professor of Astronomy at Universidad de Chile
• Martin Elvis – Senior Astrophysicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Maurizio Paolillo – Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
• Andy Lawrence – Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh
• Patricia Arévalo – Professor of Astrophysics at Universidad de Valparaíso
• Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann – Head of Research at the Astronomy Department of Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul
• Gisella De Rosa – Roman Space Telescope Instruments Branch Manager at Space Telescope Science Institute
• Misty Bentz – Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University

The 'Golden Webinars in Astrophysics' series seeks to bring forefront research in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology to the public in the English and Spanish language. Full schedule of the Golden Webinars series: http://tiny.cc/GWA-schedule

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