December 2024 WAA Meeting & Lecture

Friday, December 13, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Live at the David Pecker Conference Room, Willcox Hall, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY and on Zoom (link on the WAA home page)

Seeing the Invisible: What does a Black Hole look like?

Eliot Quataert, PhD
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy
Princeton University

Prof. Quataert is an astrophysics theorist who works on a wide range of problems, including stars and black holes, accretion theory, plasma astrophysics, and how galaxies form, using both analytic calculations and numerical simulations. He received his undergraduate degree at MIT and PhD from Harvard and was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study. After being on the faculty at UC Berkeley, he moved to Princeton in 2020.

Free & open to the public. In-person attendance is always more fun!