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November 7, 2025 past

PUG Seminar

Whitmore 321

PUG Seminar

Abstract: Be/X-ray Binaries (BeXRB) are a common type of X-ray binary star system taht emit variable radiation across the electromagentic spectrum on all timescales. In this talk, I will discuss the different observational properties of BeXRBs and describe the underlying physical process at work. Through these processes, we will gain a better understanding of how BeXRBs can improve our understanding of the evolution of high-mass stars and compact objects.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2025-11-07 11:00 Thomas Gaudin An Overview of Broadband Emission in Be/X-ray Binary Systems
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.