Stars have long fascinated human beings, but our understanding of their
true nature is only about 100 years old. Starting in the 1920s, stars
have become a wonderful laboratory for modern physics, providing
scientists with insight into nuclear physics, quantum mechanics,
particle physics, and more recently, turbulence - a field often
described as the last unsolved problem in classical physics. In this
lecture, Professor Garaud will present a selection of what scientists
have learned from stars to date, and what they hope to learn in the
future thanks to new advances in stellar seismology and high-performance
computing.
Pascale Garaud is a Professor in the department of Applied Mathematics
at the Baskin Shool of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. She completed her
graduate studies and two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of
Cambridge (UK) before moving to the US. Her research focuses on fluid
dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics applied to astrophysics. Her work
involves a range of applied mathematical tools from numerical
experimentation using high-performance computing to pen-and-paper
analytical derivations. She became a Fellow of the American Physical
Society in 2019.