Dr. Renee Ludlum from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, will join us virtually via Google Meet to discuss Extremes of the Cosmos: Neutron Stars.
Dr. Renee Ludlum
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The online meeting will be available at 7:00 pm for participant open discussion.
Presentation Details:
Talk Title: Cosmos: Neutron Stars
Biography:
Dr. Renee Ludlam is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in May 2019 for her dissertation work titled “A Hard Look at Accretion Around Neutron Stars”, which was awarded the 2021 American Astronomical Society (AAS) High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Dissertation Prize. She is interested in studying the extreme phenomena associated with the most compact objects in the Universe: black holes and neutron stars. Her research specializes in X-ray data analysis techniques to infer the properties of accreting compact objects and was recently awarded the 2023 Newton Lacy Pierce prize by the AAS for “novel explorations of the relativistic universe that have revealed fundamental properties of neutron stars.”
