{"641104":{"#nid":"641104","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Understanding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics + Q\u0026A","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/bpahkcyb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoin us virtually on BlueJeans\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eas Georgia Tech School of Physics professor and Glen P. Robinson Chair in Nonlinear Sciences Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EPredrag Cvitanovi\u0107\u003C\/strong\u003E and Emory University Senior Lecturer and Director of the Planetarium \u003Cstrong\u003EErin Wells Bonning\u003C\/strong\u003E explain the \u003Cstrong\u003E2020 Nobel Prize in Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E. After the presentation, the speakers will answer questions from the audience, so come curious! This talk is open to the public and all are welcome to join.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Prize\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHalf of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1957 Penrose, then a graduate student, met Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s late David Ritz Finkelstein in a fateful meeting that changed both men\u0026rsquo;s lives forever after. It was Finkelstein\u0026rsquo;s extension of the Schwarzschild metric which provided Penrose with an opening into general relativity and set him on the path to his 1965 discovery celebrated by this year\u0026rsquo;s prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of \u0026mdash; in Ghez\u0026rsquo;s words \u0026mdash; \u0026quot;The Monster at the heart of the Milky Way,\u0026quot; a black hole whose existence had been hypothesized since the early 1970s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn order to visually observe an object that famously does not emit any light, precise measurements of stars moving in the black hole\u0026rsquo;s gravitational field had to be carried out. The independent work of Genzel and Ghez mapping the positions of these stars over many years has led to the clearest evidence yet that the center of our Milky Way galaxy contains \u0026ldquo;The Monster\u0026rdquo;, that possibly every galaxy contains a black hole, and that the environment near it looks nothing like what was expected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELearn more: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/2020-nobel-prizes-chemistry-and-physics-explained-genetic-scissors-black-holes-and-milky-ways\u0022\u003E2020 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics, Explained\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/bpahkcyb\u0022\u003EJoin us on BlueJeans\u003C\/a\u003E as local experts from Georgia Tech and Emory University help explain the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics \u0026mdash; from the pioneering theoretical work on black holes, to observing the galactic center of our Milky Way. Open Q\u0026amp;A will follow this talk.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us as local experts from Georgia Tech and Emory University help explain the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics \u2014 from the pioneering theoretical work on black holes, to observing the galactic center of our Milky Way. Open Q\u0026A will follow this talk."}],"uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2020-11-06 22:30:16","changed_gmt":"2020-11-06 22:38:46","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-11-12 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-11-12 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-11-12 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641103":{"id":"641103","type":"image","title":"Understanding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics","body":null,"created":"1604701801","gmt_created":"2020-11-06 22:30:01","changed":"1604701801","gmt_changed":"2020-11-06 22:30:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243636","name":"Final SoP Public Lecture Poster - Nov 2020.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Final%20SoP%20Public%20Lecture%20Poster%20-%20Nov%202020.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Final%20SoP%20Public%20Lecture%20Poster%20-%20Nov%202020.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1041261,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Final%20SoP%20Public%20Lecture%20Poster%20-%20Nov%202020.png?itok=7wkNe2e6"}}},"media_ids":["641103"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"960","name":"physics"},{"id":"7715","name":"Nobel Prize"},{"id":"10881","name":"black holes"},{"id":"60501","name":"Milky Way"},{"id":"4079","name":"astrophysics"},{"id":"186012","name":"David Finkelstein"},{"id":"173138","name":"David Ritz Finkelstein"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/edwin-greco\u0022\u003EEd Greco, School of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}