May 23 2017
Porter Building
TAU
Time Domain Astronomy
in honor of the 2017 Dan David Prize Laureates
10:00-10:25 Avishay Gal-Yam: Observing stars as they explode
10:25-10:50 Dovi Poznanski: Astronomical discoveries--enter the
machines
11:00-11:45 Shri Kulkarni, special Physics colloquium: Time-domain
astronomy is here and now
11:45-12:30 Andrzej Udalski, special Physics colloquium: OGLE survey
- 25 years of sky exploration
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:10 Dan Maoz: The snowline planet frequency from microlensing
14:10-14:35 Tsevi Mazeh: The first two dormant black holes in wide
orbits
14:35-15:00 Eran Ofek: Searching for isolated black holes in our
Galaxy
15:00-15:25 coffee
15:25-15:50 Assaf Horesh: The future of time-domain radio astronomy
15:50-16:15 Ehud Nakar:Jet propagation in gamma-ray bursts and
supernovae
16:15-16:40 Re'em Sari: Mass transfer in binaries