Konwersatorium im. J.Pniewskiego i L.Infelda

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Sir Roger Penrose (half of the Prize), Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez (jointly, the other half of the Prize) for their work on black holes. Sir Roger Penrose received the award “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". To this end, he used innovative methods of space-time geometry, which he partially created and developed himself. Importantly for the audience of our Faculty, Penrose employed the geometry of null geodesics used earlier in general relativity by Ivor Robinson and Andrzej Trautman. The methods and results will be presented by prof. Jerzy Lewandowski from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.

Experimentalists Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have been prized for their observations of the Centre of the Galaxy and for proving the existence of a massive compact object there. Methodology and results of the two groups led by Genzel and Ghez will be presented and consequences and future of such studies will be discussed  by dr hab. Łukasz Wyrzykowski from the Astronomical Observatory, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.

The colloquium will take place via ZOOM. For the parameters, see the October 26, 2020 lecture.



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Pobierz prezentację prof. Lewandowskiego/ Download the presentation of prof. Lewandowski
Pobierz prezentację dr hab. Wyrzykowskiego/ Download the presentation of dr hab. Wyrzykowski

Pobierz nagranie / Download the recording