Waiting for the Sun: A Wild History of Solar Eclipses

The WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology announces the return of their Center seminar series, WVUniverse.

WVUniverse connects general audiences with an expert scientist who can tell the inner stories on astrophysical topics like Gravitational Waves, black holes and more.

These talks are all audiences appropriate and include fun quizzes with prizes.

The next talk, "Waiting for the Sun: A Wild History of Solar Eclipses" will feature Dr. Emmanuel Fonseca, of West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology. 

Fonseca works as a radio astronomer to understand compact astrophysical objects and the extreme physical environments that surround them. His research interests currently center on radio pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs); while pulsars are known to be rotating neutron stars, the origins of FRBs are largely unknown but are indicative of environments like those produced by neutron stars.

Since 2016, Emmanuel helped construct software and hardware infrastructures for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope and two of its instruments that observe pulsars and FRBs. He currently helps maintain both instruments for CHIME, as well as supervises and/or co-leads science projects using CHIME data. Emmanuel also uses other premier radio observatories, such as the 100-m Green Bank Telescope, the former 305-m Arecibo Observatory, and the Very Large Array, for collecting data related to pulsar and FRB astrophysics.

WVUniverse Series presents "Waiting for the Sun: A Wild History of Solar Eclipses" featuring Dr. Emmanuel Fonseca

This will be a free, informal talk with plenty of time for Q&A and conversation. All are welcome to attend.