Aspen Center for Physics presents The Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Lectures Series, with free public talks each Wednesday evening from June 26 - August 28, 2024. The talks will be in Flug Forum, located at the Aspen Center for Physics. Lectures are free and begin promptly at 5:30pm. Guests are invited to arrive at 5pm to enjoy tea and cookies before the lecture. The lectures will last 50 minutes followed by a 10 minute Q&A. Please RSVP at aspenphys.org.

Time-domain astrophysics pertains to the most violent phenomena in our Universe, including stellar eruptions, disruptions, explosions, and mergers. Combining multiple messengers of information (including light, particles, and gravitational waves), it constitutes a new frontier of discovery in Astrophysics. In this event Margutti will explore some of the most recent advances in the field, and we will discuss some of the most exciting directions of research that will open up in the near future.

Raffaella Margutti received her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics in 2006 (magna cum laude), and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2010. Margutti is a Sloan Fellow in Physics (2019), a CIFAR global scholar in Gravity and the Extreme Universe (2019), she received the NSF Career award in 2019, and received the 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize for leadership in laying foundations for electromagnetic observations of sources of gravitational waves, and leadership in extracting rich information from the first observed collision of two neutron stars. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Astronomy Department and in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley, and she holds the title of Marc and Cristina Bensadoun Professor in Physics.

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