CSE Community Seminar
October 25, 2024, 12-1PM
Conference Room 45-432 in Building 45
Unlocking Black Hole Physics With Computational Astronomy
Paul Tiede
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Abstract:
By utilizing a network of global radio telescopes in April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) took the first picture of a black hole. Unlike other areas of astronomy, every step of the observation process, including the formation of the telescope, calibration, and imaging, depends on software and high-performance computation. In this talk, I will review the computational aspects of the first-ever image of a black hole and how tools like Julia and Enzyme have become a core part of the EHT pipeline. Future black hole astronomy observations will require new computational tools that utilize modern hardware and computational techniques to extract groundbreaking scientific discoveries. In the second part of the talk, I will review the computational demands required for the next generation of black hole instruments and the tremendous opportunity for collaboration between computer science and astronomers.
October 25, 2024, CSE Community Seminar
Paul Tiede
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian