Greetings all!! Be sure to mark your calendars for this one, as Ronan Humphrey, Lulu Agazie & Amanda Baylor from the UWM Coffeeshop Astrophysics group will teach us about space!! And also note this will be our last talk before we take a summer break and return again in September for some more nerdy fun!! Hope to see you there!!
Sometimes called the Ghost Particle, neutrinos are mysterious messengers from the cosmos. They rarely interact with normal matter, which makes them hard to detect, but they're everywhere. In fact, about 100 trillion neutrinos are passing through your body every second! In this talk, we'll discuss what neutrinos are, how we know they exist, and what they can tell us about the universe.
Ronan Humphrey is a PhD candidate studying Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He started at UWM in 2020 after earning his bachelor's degree in Physics and Math from DePaul University. His research interests are in computational astrophysics performing simulations of tidal disruptions of white dwarfs. Outside of physics, Ronan loves baking, sewing, and being outdoors.
Lulu Agazie is a Physics PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She completed her bachelor's degree in Physics with a minor in Mathematics at West Virginia University in 2019. As a member of the NANOGrav collaboration, her research focuses on construction of pulsar timing array datasets, neutron star mass measurements, and wideband methods of pulsar timing. Outside of research she enjoys hiking, crocheting, and playing the harp.
Amanda Baylor is from Pennsylvania and received her B.S. in Physics with a minor in Astronomy from Dickinson College. As a PhD candidate at UWM, she works for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, making real-time detections of gravitational waves from the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. Her research focuses on facilitating the rapid follow up of these events in order to further our understanding of the densest objects in the Universe. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys reading old science fiction, caring for her houseplants, and running by Lake Michigan.
Date: 5/12/25
Time: 7-9pm CST
Cost: FREE!!!
Location: Back room of the Sugar Maple Bar, 441 E. Lincoln Ave, Bay View, WI
