Avi’s most recent initiative is the Starshot project, which explores possibility of interstellar travel (https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/Initiative/3).
Title: Simulating Lyman-Alpha Sources in the Epoch of Reionization Abstract: Radiation from the first stars and galaxies initiated the dramatic phase transition marking an end to the cosmic dark ages. … Continue reading "Aaron Smith (UT-Austin): Simulating Lyman-Alpha Sources in the Epoch of Reionization"
Measuring the polarization state of gravitational waves Alternative theories of gravity predict additional polarization states to the two tensor modes of general relativity. LIGO/Virgo have provided the first observation constraints … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Neil Cornish (Montana State)"