Learning to be a radio astronomer

Christine Wilson (Phys 8T4)

Little did I know when I started graduate school that I would end up working in radio astronomy: it seemed too difficult, too exotic, and frankly too technical for my background at the time. However, my interest in understanding how stars form, combined with an invitation from a professor to try out collecting data with the new 3-telescope radio telescope array at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, started me on this path. In my talk, I will describe a few key milestones from my early career, and then talk about the research that my students and I have been carrying out with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array studying some of the most extreme star-forming galaxies in the local universe.

Read more about Christine Wilson here and submit a question to him before the conference.

Years 1 and 2 EngSci students:  T-cards will be scanned to take attendance.