Astrophysicist simulating and imaging Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope. Black holes, accretion disks & jets, MHD simulations, computational imaging, and other topics.

achael@princeton.edu

465 Jadwin Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540

Updates are in progress! See my cv for an up-to-date list of talks.

Thesis Talk

“Simulating and imaging supermassive black hole accretion flows.’’
Cambridge, MA. April 30, 2019.
video

Public Lectures

  • “Photographing black holes: first results from the Event Horizon Telescope.” Harvard University, Special Colloquium.
    Cambridge, MA. April 2019.
    video

  • “Photographing a black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope.” Carleton College Special Lecture.
    Northfield, MN. May 2019.

Invited Talks

  • “In the shadow of the black hole.” GitHub Satellite 2019.
    Berlin, Germany. May 2019.
    video

  • “Two-temperature, radiative, MAD simulations of the supermassive black hole in M87.” ITC lunch (Keto Prize Talk).
    Cambridge, MA. May 2019.
    video

  • “What will the Event Horizon Telescope see?” Columbia Astronomy Thursday Seminar.
    New York, NY. November 2018.
    slides

  • “Electron heating and particle acceleration in GRMHD simulations.” The Central Arcsecond: Towards Testing General Relativity in the Galactic Center.
    Schloss Ringberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 2018. slides

  • “What will the EHT see? Electron heating in simulations of Sgr A* and M87.” Northwestern CIERA Theory Group Meeting.
    Evanston, IL. October 2018.
    slides

  • “Electron heating physics in images and variability of Sgr A*.” 15th Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity.
    Rome, Italy. July 2018.
    abstract | slides

  • “Imaging a black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope.” 907th Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Meeting.
    Cambridge, MA. March 2018.
    event info| slides

  • “Imaging techniques for the Event Horizon Telescope.” 3rd Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Meeting.
    Cambridge, MA. December 2016.
    schedule | slides

  • “Probing Dynamical Activity near the Event Horizon with the EHT.” 2nd Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Meeting.
    Waterloo, ON. November 2014.
    abstract

Other Talks

  • “The role of electron heating physics in images and variability of Sgr A*.” 28th New England Regional Quasar and AGN Meeting.
    New Haven, CT. May 2018.
    abstracts | slides

  • “Evolving thermal and nonthermal electron distributions in simulations of Sagittarius A*.” 231st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
    Washington, DC. January 2018.
    abstract | slides

  • “Evolving thermal and nonthermal electron distributions in accretion simulations.” 13th School of Modern Astrophysics.
    Moscow, Russia. July 2017.
    schedule | slides

  • “Evolving thermal and nonthermal electron distributions in accretion simulations.” When Brandeis met Jansky: astrophysics and beyond.
    Waltham, MA. May 2017.
    abstract

  • “Evolving non-thermal electron distributions in accretion simulations.” 3rd Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Meeting.
    Cambridge, MA. December 2016.
    abstract | slides

  • “Imaging black hole magnetic fields with the Event Horizon Telescope.” M87 Workshop.
    Taipei, Taiwan. May 2016.
    abstract | slides

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