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Saturday, November 9, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST
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1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Check-in, Networking
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm Introduction
2:10 pm - 3:40 pm Presentation and Q & A
3:40 pm - 4:30 pm Networking (Library closes at 5 PM)

Where

El Segundo Public Library, Community Room 
111 W Mariposa Ave
El Segundo, CA 90245  

(Free street parking and free public parking lot across the street)

(South of LAX/105 Hwy/Imperial Hwy, North of El Segundo Blvd, West of 405 Hwy & N. Sepulveda Blvd / Pacific Coast Hwy 1)

 
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Contact

Events/Programs Chair, LA 
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section 
949-426-8175 
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com 

Ticket Information

A Free and Public Event, But please show up if you register for it. If you can't make it after registration, please inform us.

Lunch

No Lunch will be provided. Please join the event after your lunch, or bring your own lunch.

Dress Code

No open-toe shoes

Refreshment (for all ticket types above)

No Refreshment or Snacks. Free pizza, Coffee, and bottled water will be provided.


(This program is not sponsored by the El Segundo Public Library)

AIAA LA-LV 11/9 Saturday Event (Public Event)
(You do not need to be a member of AIAA to attend the event. Volunteers are needed for all AIAA activities)

Saturday, November 9, 2019
First Time Ever
Black Hole Observation !
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT): Studying Black Holes from the South Pole

Dr. Junhan Kim
Robert A. Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Physics, Math & Astronomy
California Institute of Technology (CalTech)

 

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The Topic

 

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT): Studying Black Holes from the South Pole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project is a very-long-baseline interferometry experiment to observe supermassive black holes at the highest resolution ever achieved, combining a network of radio telescopes around the world. A few months ago, the EHT announced its first results: imaging the nuclear black hole in the galaxy M87. In this talk, I will review the EHT results as well as the efforts that led to the first scientific outcome of the project, including the instrument development for the South Pole Telescope that I have been heavily involved in. 

The Speaker: 

 

 Dr. Junhan Kim
Robert A. Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Physics, Math & Astronomy
California Institute of Technology (CalTech)


Junhan is a Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics at Caltech, starting September 2019. He obtained his undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and astronomy from Seoul National University in Korea and did his Ph.D. studies in Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. For his thesis entitled "Instruments and Statistical Tools to Study Supermassive Black Holes at Event Horizon Scales", he traveled to the South Pole four times since 2014 to incorporate the South Pole Telescope to the Event Horizon Telescope array.