Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Society talk titled "Fast Radio Bursts"

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK.

Please register for the event via this link: 

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/04/bakerian-lecture/

This lecture will be broadcast live on Zoom Webinar on 27 April 2021 at 6.30pm GMT. The event will be recorded (including the live Q&A) and the recording will be available on YouTube soon after the event.

The event is free to join. Advance registration required

SUMMARY

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (few millisecond) bursts of radio waves observed from cosmological distances. Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day, indicating a not-uncommon phenomenon in the Universe. In this talk, Professor Kaspi will review the FRB field and present new results on FRBs from a new digital transit radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).

SPEAKER:

Professor Victoria Kaspi CC FRS was awarded the Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2021 for her research focused on neutron stars and their utility for constraining basic physics. More recently, she has also made fundamental discoveries on Fast Radio Bursts.