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SUMMARY:Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts - Dr. Anastasia Fialkov\, University 
 of Sussex
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CONTACT:Xuchen Wang
DESCRIPTION:*Talk Abstract*\n\nFast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are recently-disco
 vered pulses of radio emission arriving to us from outside of our Galaxy. 
 Several of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes are searching for t
 hese signals in an attempt to characterise and identify their cosmic origi
 ns. Although more than a thousand FRBs have been discovered to date\, thei
 r nature is still a mystery and researchers are working hard to identify t
 hem. Neverthese\, these pulses can be used as cosmic probes. Owing to thei
 r unique features\, FRBs provide new cosmological information and probe ou
 r Universe in a way independent of other cosmic tracers. In my talk I will
  discuss the status of this field.\n\n---\n\n*Speaker Information*\n\nDr. 
 Anastasia Fialkov's research interest span from dark ages to the present d
 ays including astrophysics and cosmology with the 21-cm line of neutral hy
 drogen\, intensity mapping of other molecular and atomic lines\, structure
  formation\, nature of dark matter\, transient phenomena such as Fast Radi
 o Bursts\, low frequency radio observations and instrumentation.\n\nShe ob
 tained her B.Sc. in Physics and B.A. in Electrical Engineering from Techni
 on\, Haifa\, Israel\, a her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from Tel Aviv Unive
 rsity in Israel. She was a Senior Kavli Fellow at the Institute of Astrono
 my & Kavli Institute for Cosmology in Cambridge University\, and is curren
 tly the Royal Society University Research Fellow at Sussex University.
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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