New Insights and Challenges from Next-Generation Observatories, by Dr Michael Tremmel - 2023-11-13
Channel: Cork Astronomy Club
Date: 2024-01-14

Dr. Michel Tremmel attained his bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from Northwestern University in 2011.

He gained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2017.

After earning his PhD he was awarded the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, at Yale University, and in 2020 he was a recipient of a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, also based at Yale.

In January 2023 he started a new position as Lecturer in Theoretical Astrophysics, teaching Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics, at University College Cork (UCC).

His expertise is in using large-scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to study the formation and co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). His work involves studying the dynamical evolution of SMBHs within galaxies to make predictions for gravitational wave detections of SMBHs, as well to predict how SMBHs affect the evolution of their host galaxies and vice versa.

[Sources: https://www.ucc.ie/en/physics/people/drmichaeltremmel/; https://mtremmel.github.io/]


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In this lecture to Cork Astronomy Club on 13 November, 2023, Michael assesses the impact of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on our knowledge of the Universe. What do we know now that we didn’t know two years ago, and what do we hope to find out next? He outlines the cutting edge data provided not only by JWST but also from other newly commissioned and upcoming telescopes: ESA's Euclid space telescope; the Vera Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST); NASA's wide-field Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope; the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA - not a telescope per se but a gravitational wave detector). He outlines where are we going in the near future and what challenges this poses for astrophysicists.

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