理学研究科、男女協働推進センター主催による男女協働推進セミナーを2日間にわけて行います。講演者は、宇宙科学分野の最前線で活躍する女性研究者、Chris Done教授です。1日目は、自身のキャリアパスなどについて、2日目は、研究の話を中心にご講演いただきます。
※使用言語：英語

日時
2017年1月19日（木）15:00-16:30
2017年1月20日（金）10:30-12:00

場所
 理学D棟、F棟（豊中キャンパス）　アクセスマップ

対象
大阪大学教職員・学生

プログラム
1日目：1月19日（木）15:00-16:30　理学D棟5階D501
‘Rocket science:
How I got to be the first woman Astrophysics professor in Durham’
Prof. Chris Done (Durham University, UK)
I will talk about how I choose a career in Astrophysics, working on black holes, and how this led me into rocket science. There are not many women in Physics, especially 30 years ago when I started, and always standing out and looking different can be difficult. I will talk about some of the barriers women face in a Physics career as well as the amazing opportunities – I worked in the USA for two years at NASA, where an unexpected highlight was being in the control room flying an X-ray telescope in the space shuttle payload bay! And now I work for JAXA and live in Japan for a year! I have the best job I can imagine, where I get paid to think about black holes and travel the world.

2日目：1月20日（金）10:30-12:00　理学F棟6階F608
‘Black holes and Einstein’s gravity’
Prof. Chris Done (Durham University, UK)
I will review what we know about the accretion flow in the stellar mass black hole binary systems, and show how we can use them to test Einstein’s General Relativity in strong gravity with observational evidence for the event horizon and the last stable circular orbit. I will also talk about our new result on the first detection of Lense Thirring (relativistic vertical) precession in the strong field limit in these systems. This solves the 30 year mystery of the origin of the characteristic timescale seen in these objects, as well as being the first test of this prediction of Einstein’s gravity in the strong field limit. Gravitational waves from merging black holes are the ultimate test of strong gravity, and the recent advanced LIGO results are fantastic confirmation that General Relativity really does describe what we see.

主催
大阪大学大学院理学研究科、大阪大学 男女協働推進センター