AoT: The Universe's Ghosts and Ripples (Leiden, in English)

This Astronomy on Tap Leiden (AoT) will take place on Monday October 26th at the Galerie Café Leidse Lente at 20:00 CEST. The speakers will be focussing on neutrino and gravitational wave astronomy. As always, there will be two astronomy talks and fun games with which you can test your knowledge and try to win cool science prizes!

Jannis Necker: "Looking at the Sky with Different Eyes: Neutrino Astronomy and the Recent Nobel Prize"

Jannis is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Observatory where he investigates the most energetic explosion in the universe. During his PhD he used observations of very high energetic elementary particles from space called neutrinos to learn about these explosions. He will explain what astrophysical neutrinos are, how we can build a neutrino telescope and why Franzis Halzen received this year’s Nobel Prize of physics for the IceCube neutrino detector.

Lucas Pouw: "Listening to the Universe with gravitational waves"

Lucas Pouw is a PhD student at Leiden Observatory. He studies black holes that grow through mergers and by feeding on torn-apart stars. In this talk, he will paint a picture of how astronomy entered a new era with the detection of gravitational waves from two merging black holes.

Logistical information
The AoT starts at 20:00 sharp, so please arrive earlier to enter the café, save a seat, and grab a drink at the bar. The organisation uploads a recording of the talks on their YouTube channel. Galerie Café Leidse Lente is located at Haagweg 4 in Leiden. Payed parking is located at Haagweg 8.