Upcoming Webinars
Spring 2021 Series: “Advanced EHT Data Analysis”
Links to all recorded sessions are below. Please join our mailing list to receive advanced announcement for the upcoming fall webinar series.
January 19, 1600 UT | Time Domain Methods I | Watch recorded session
February 16, 1800 UT | Time Domain Methods II | Watch recorded session
March 23, 1500 UT | VLBI Polarimetry Techniques I | Watch recorded session
March 30, 1600 UT | VLBI Polarimetry Techniques II | Watch recorded session
April 27, 1400 UT – Principal Component Analysis Techniques in VLBI Imaging and Model Comparison | Watch recorded session
Advanced EHT Data Analysis: Principal Code Analysis Techniques, Session 5
Webinar Overview: Session 5 of the Advanced EHT Data Analysis Series Facilitator: Lia Medeiros, Institute for Advanced Study Air date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 This session is part of a monthly series. Subscribe and watch past webinars here: BH PIRE Science Channel on...
Advanced EHT Data Analysis: VLBI Polarimetry Techniques II, Session 4
Session 4 of the Advanced EHT Data Analysis Series Webinar Overview: Jason followed last week’s initial polarization webinar by expanding on the impact of density and temperature on the observed polarization from a magnetized plasma, walks through the process...
Advanced EHT Data Analysis: VLBI Polarimetry Techniques I, Session 3
Session 3 of the Advanced EHT Data Analysis Series Webinar Overview: Iván Martí-Vidal (University of Valencia) provided a brilliant overview of polarization, discussing various states of light, the Stokes parameters, and jets in AGN. The presentation also covers how...
Advanced EHT Data Analysis: Time Domain Methods II, Session 2
Webinar Overview: Session 2 of the Advanced EHT Data Analysis Series Ingrid Stairs (University of British Columbia) presented an excellent webinar session covering different methods for identifying periodic signals and their applicability to different pulsar data...
Advanced EHT Data Analysis: Time Domain Methods I, Session 1
Webinar Overview: Part 1 of the Advanced EHT Data Analysis Series During this first session in the new series, the facilitator discusses astrophysical sources exhibiting incoherent variability in their lightcurves, specifically from the perspective of "compact object”...
Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT: Kerr Black Holes and Beyond, Session 5
Part 5 of the Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT Webinar Series - In this final session of the five-part series, the facilitator covers what we know about black hole solutions beyond general relativity, what we can learn about beyond-general relativity black holes use...
Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT: Subgrid Plasma Physics, Session 4
Webinar Overview: Part 4 of the Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT Webinar Series This session covers how and why uncertainties in plasma ‘microphysics’ affect our ability to predict observational signatures of BH accretion in EHT sources as well as discussing some of...
Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT: GRMHD Simulations, Session 2
Part 2 of the Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT Webinar Series - During this session the facilitator: Discusses astrophysical content of GRMHD model, including numerical methods, tests, resolution, and convergence; Compares models and assumptions, followed by...
Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT: Ray Tracing, Session 3
Webinar Overview: Part 3 of the Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT Webinar Series This session will cover general relativistic ray tracing (GRRT), a numerical technique for computing physically accurate black hole images from fluid/plasma models of black hole accretion...
Astrophysics Empowered by the EHT: Accretion Physics, Session 1
Download Slides and Q&A Facilitator: Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University Air date: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Webinar Overview: This session provides an introduction to the accretion phenomenon and family of hot accretion flow solutions within the broader...
VLBI Data Series 4, Model Comparison
Facilitator: Dimitrios Psaltis Air date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 An interferometer does not record directly the images of cosmic sources. Instead, it measures the components of the Fourier transforms of the images at a set of distinct locations set by the...
VLBI Data Series 3, Imaging Techniques
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Andrew Chael, Princeton University Air date: Tuesday, March 18, 2020 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the emission just outside the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in M87 with an effective resolution of...
VLBI Data Series 2, Handling Data, Managing Errors
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Lindy Blackburn, Radio Astronomer and EHT Data Scientist at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Air date: Tuesday, March 11, 2020 Attendees will gain an understanding of the VLBI data pathway, how data are recorded...
VLBI Data Series 1, Intro to Radio Astronomy
Download the slideshow: Facilitator: Dan Marrone, Arizona Air date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 The technique of radio interferometry is an essential tool for modern radio astronomy. Interferometry made the Event Horizon Telescope image of M87* possible, but it is...
Your Research and the Open Science Grid (OSG)
Your Research and the Open Science Grid (OSG) - Webinar Facilitator: Christina Koch, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison 10th December 2019 - Tuesday, 1800 UTC What problems do you work on that require computers to solve? What kinds of...
Accelerate Your Research with AWS
Accelerate Your Research with AWS - Webinar Facilitator: Aaron Bucher and Chris Mills, Amazon 12th November 2019 - Tuesday, 1800 UTC See how researchers accelerate their time to results by leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) for on-demand HPC resources. We cover...
Software Development Essentials
Software Development Best Practices - Webinar Facilitator: Ward Harold, Google Cloud Solutions Architect 16th October 2019 - Wednesday, 1700 UTC Software is an essential aspect of modern life. Good software simplifies our work, makes us more productive, it may even...
FPGA Programming and Its Application in Radio Astronomy
FPGA Programming A Webinar Event with Q&A 25th September 2019 - Wednesday, 1600 UTC FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are a flexible tool for implementing fast, repetitive computations. In contrast to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), which...
Space-based Interferometry
Joseph Lazio, Chief Scientist for NASA's Deep Space Network will speak on science and status of using VLBI in space. Title: Space-based Interferometry
CyVerse Data Store and FAIR Implementation
Ramona Walls - Senior Scientific Analyst at the University of Arizona, leads a webinar introducing CyVerse and FAIR data. Title: Managing large collaborative datasets for easier storage, analysis, and discovery To download the presentation as a pdf...