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South Cheshire Astronomical Society - Talk Archive Item
Public Talk
Thursday 15th Mar 2018
7:00pm for 7:30pm start
Please arrive soon after 7pm to book your place and pay entry or membership subscriptions.
Venue: South Cheshire College.
Crewe
Speaker: Nial Tanvir
Professor of Astronomy at Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Leicester
Talk Title: Short Gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae and gravitational waves
Composite Image elements Credits:
Forground Image extracted from: Ioffe GRB workshop 2014
Background image cropped from: FermiLab News article on explosive source of gravitational waves
About the speaker (from Wikipedia): Nial has made important contributions to the science of astronomy. Perhaps most significant is his research in and around Gamma ray bursts. He has featured in various TV programs, including The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, and a BBC Horizon documentary about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
For more see the source of this information:
Nial Tanvir - Wikipedia
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