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SUMMARY:Relativistic jets from black holes: connections to gravitational w
 aves and neutrinos - Professor Rob Fender\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20220315T193000Z
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CONTACT:Xuchen Wang
DESCRIPTION:*Talk Abstract*\n\nRelativistic jets from black holes\, highly
  collimated outflows of matter and energy travelling at close to the speed
  of light\, remain a poorly understood phenomenon despite a century of stu
 dy. What is clear is that they are ubiquitously associated with accreting 
 black holes across the mass spectrum\, and can at times carry away a large
  fraction of the liberated gravitational potential energy. Their key signa
 ture is synchrotron emission\, usually observed in the radio band. In this
  talk I will outline the most exciting recent developments\, including the
  relativistic outflows associated with the LIGO-Virgo neutron star merger 
 event GW170817 and the candidate neutrino source Tidal Disruption Event AT
 2019dsg.\n\n---\n\n*Speaker Information*\n\nProfessor Rob Fender is curren
 tly head of the Astrophysics sub-department within the broader Physics dep
 artment\, at the University of Oxford.\n\nHis particular research interest
 s are in the areas of accretion and feedback around relativistic objects\,
  mostly advanced via observations with radio telescopes such as AMI-LA\, e
 -MERLIN and MeerKAT. As well as targeted studies\, He is also involved in 
 wide field commensal searches for radio transients. \n\nPreviously he was 
 Professor of Physics at The University of Southampton\, and prior to that 
 Universitair Hoofddocent at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has been a 
 Visiting Professor at The University of Grenoble\, and since 2010 hold a p
 osition as a Visiting SKA Professor at The University of Cape Town.\n\nAmo
 ngst other highlights\, he led the national collaboration via which the UK
  joined the LOFAR project\, was awarded in 2011 an ERC Advanced Investigat
 or Grant\, was chair of the SKA Transients Science Working Group\, and was
  awarded the 2020 Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for "in
 vestigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics"\, mainly 
 in recognition of his work on accretion around black holes and the connect
 ion to relativistic jets.\n\nHe is also a recipient of the  Philip Leverhu
 lme Prize\, a Marie Curie Fellowship\, an NWO VIDI prize\, and a Leverhulm
 e Senior Research Fellowship. \n\nIn 2021 he became the co-lead of the nex
 t-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) working group on Astrophysica
 l Transients.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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