Universe Webinar | Long-term Periodicity in FRB Activity
Welcome from the Chairs
6th Universe Webinar
Long-term Periodicity in FRB Activity
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain a puzzling phenomenon. Among many unsolved problems, there the a question of periodic activity observed for two sources of repeating bursts. This feature can be an important clue to understanding the physics of these enigmatic sources. Three main hypotheses to explain these 16-day and 160-day periods have been put forwards: orbital periodicity in a binary system; precession of a neutron star; and ultra-long spin. In this seminar, we confront these approaches, inviting three speakers who are proponents of the three competing approaches. We expect that the problem will be elucidated from these different points of view, accounting for all available pieces of information about FRBs. Since the speakers will present their views on these unsolved questions, we hope to have an interesting discussion.
Date: 12 April 2022
Time: 3:00pm CEST | 9:00am EDT | 9:00pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 836 9329 2513
Webinar Secretariat: universe.webinar@mdpi.com
Chairs
Graduated from the Astronomy Department of the Bologna University in 2000. Obtained a PhD in Astronomy there in 2003, with a thesis reporting the discovery of the first and only double pulsar system. Currently works as a researcher at the Cagliari Observatory of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Italy.
Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1995. Obtained PhD there in 1998. Currently works at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Postdoc at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2002-2004. Professor of the department of Physics, Moscow State University since 2017.
Invited Speakers
Department of Natural sciences, Open University of Israel, Israel
Paz holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University. After completing his PhD work in 2016 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, at the George Washington University and at the California institute of technology (Caltech). Paz joined the Open University of Israel as a senior lecturer in 2021.
Graduated from the Moscow State University in 2000. Obtained PhD in Space Research from Institute RAS in 2004. Dec 2020now: Leading Researcher in INASAN, Moscow, Russia. Mar 2017– Nov 2020: Researcher, Purdue University Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, USA. Aug 2016–Feb 2017: Researcher, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germany. Jun 2016–Aug 2016: Senior PostDoc, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 2014–May 2016: Researcher, Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory, Riken, Wako, Japan. 2010–2013: Max Planck Fellowship for High Energy Astrophysics, MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany. 2006–2009: Research Fellow, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 2000–2006: Researcher, Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Cornell University, USA
Dong Lai is a Professor of Astrophysics at Cornell University. His B.S. degree (in 1988) was from the University of Science and Technology of China. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell in 1994, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He joined the faculty of the Astronomy Department at Cornell in 1997. His current research is in theoretical astrophysics, focusing on compact objects (neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs), exoplanets and astrophysical (particle and fluid) dynamics in general.
Webinar Content
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
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Chair Dr. Marta Burgay Chair Introduction. OBSERVATIONS OF FRBS: PERIODICITY |
3:00 - 3:15 pm |
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Prof. Dr. Paz Beniamini ULTRA-LONG SPIN PERIODS AS THE ORIGIN OF THE FRB PERIODIC ACTIVITY |
3:15 - 3:45 pm |
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Dr. Maxim Barkov FRB SOURCES IN BINARY SYSTEMS |
3:45 - 4:15 pm |
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Prof. Dr. Dong Lai NEUTRON STAR PRECESSION AND FRB PERIODICITY |
4:15 - 4:45 pm |
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Q&A Session |
4:45 - 5:00 pm |
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Chair Prof. Dr. Sergei Popov Closing of Webinar |
5:00 pm |
Relevant SI
Guest Editors: Dr. Marta Burgay and Prof. Dr. Sergei B. Popov
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021)
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