About Us
Extreme astrophysics
Extreme astrophysics meetings focus on diverse aspects of phenomena related to deep gravitational potentials: compact objects, high-energy, galaxy clusters.
We meet every Wednesday at 3pm (Michigan time) in the Owl room, 845 Dennison Building. At each meeting participants review a paper from the literature, or present some aspects of his/her own research, to find out what we're all working on and keep updated. You can find our schedule on the Extreme Astrophysics CTools website.
Every other week everyone is expected to submit a slide to the website to briefly discuss at the meeting, choosing among the following options:
- presenting some aspect of your own work in a teaching style
- presenting a problem that you would like to explain and then get help with
- presenting a recent result that you are particularly excited about
We aim at keeping the meetings totally informal, with the idea of discussing topics in an accessible way, at the level a first-year graduate student would understand. Presentations should not look like conference talks, they should focus on the physics involved and the methods used, in a sort of teaching style. Whiteboard presentations are absolutely welcome, better than fancy powerpoint! We'll be talking informally about our everyday research, so it should be a fairly easy preparation. The goal is to have a combination of discussion, hopefully involving a few people, rather than the weekly presenter carry all the weight of the meeting.
External speakers are mostly welcome, and we should encourage them to follow the same guidelines of simplicity and informality.
