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SUMMARY:Extremes of the Universe - Professor Andy Fabian\, University of C
 ambridge
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The Universe has many extreme events\, from the Big Bang onwar
 d. In this talk I shall concentrate on extremes of power observed in the U
 niverse\, from Solar flares to exploding stars\, magnetars\, quasars\, and
  the emission of gravitational waves from the merger of black holes. Extre
 mes test our understanding of physics. The most extreme events briefly exc
 eed the power of all the stars in all the galaxies of the observable Unive
 rse. \n\nBiography\n\n\nProfessor Andrew Fabian OBE FRS is the Acting Dire
 ctor of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. He also
  leads the X-Ray research group within the Institute. The group’s resear
 ch focuses on active galaxies\, clusters of galaxies\, elliptical galaxies
 \, galactic black holes\, neutron stars and the X-ray background. He is on
 e of two UK members on ESA’s Athena Science Study Team.\n\nBefore becomi
 ng its Director\, Professor Fabian was a Royal Society Research Professor 
 in the Institute of Astronomy. Between 2008 and 2010 he was President of t
 he Royal Astronomical Society\, and from 1997 to 2012 he was Vice-Master o
 f Darwin College\, Cambridge.\n\nHe was made a Fellow of the Royal Society
  in 1996\, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences 
 in 2016. He was awarded the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) Bruno 
 Rossi Prize in 2001\, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics of the AA
 S and APS in 2008\, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomic
 al Society of the Pacific in 2016 and he was appointed an OBE in 2006. Ast
 eroid 25157 Fabian was named for him in 2016. 
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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