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Stars explode once every second in the Universe, often becoming brighter
than their home galaxies. Though most remain undiscovered by
astronomers, recently enhanced capabilities to scan the skies now detect
about 10 per day. This has revealed new modes of explosions, some much
brighter than we expect, and some much fainter. After describing the
common outcomes, Bildsten will focus on the exciting new discoveries and
their novel theoretical interpretations.
Begin video of introduction by Derek Westen & David Gross.
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Professor Lars Bildsten is a Permanent Member at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics and a Professor in the Department of Physics. He
received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University in 1991,
where he held a Fannie and John Hertz Fellowship. Dr. Bildsten was at
Caltech for three years as the Lee A. DuBridge Fellow and received a
Compton Fellowship from NASA in spring 1994. He was an assistant and
associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Departments at UC
Berkeley from January 1995 to July 1999. Among his awards are the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Cottrell Scholar of the
Research Corporation, and the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American
Astronomical Society. Dr Bildsten was the Salpeter Lecturer at Cornell
University and the Biermann Lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for
Astrophysics. He has served on many national scientific advisory
boards, and is presently serving on the main committee for the Decadal
Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics, the once every ten year
prioritization process for Federal investments in astrophysics.
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