The Renaissance of Astrophysics: A landscape of opportunities in the era of new observations

Dr. Rafaella Margutti of the University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Rafaella Margutti of the University of California, Berkeley will present “The Renaissance of Astrophysics: A landscape of opportunities in the era of new observations” to the AOSNY members. Join AOSNY for another quality presentation.

Raffaella Margutti received her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics in 2006 (magna cum laude), and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2010. Margutti is a Sloan Fellow in Physics (2019), a CIFAR global scholar in Gravity and the Extreme Universe (2019), and received the 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars.