Our Sunday morning speaker series featuring the expertise and voices of our community continues on February 20 with Marina Orio presenting "Explosions in the Universe."

The Universe in which we live, and the ancient Universe we observe when we look at large distances, is full of dramatic and energetic phenomena. Today, we can observe them at all wavelengths, and... even not only with "light", but through gravitational waves and elementary particles.

Marina Orio was born in Fabriano, Italy a small town in the Ancona province, and lived in several different places around all Italy as a child (several years in Piedmont). She graduated with an old "laurea" degree (which was like a Master's degree today) in astronomy and physics from the University of Padova in Italy in 1983, and with a PhD from the Department of Physics of the Technion in Israel in 1987. She was a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (near Munich) for two years, then was offered a tenure track position at the Observatory of Turin (Torino) in Italy, that later became part of the National Institute of Astrophysics of Italy. She started spending many months a year at the University of Wisconsin as a visiting scientist at the end of 1993. Since then, Madison has been her part-time home. In Italy she is on the faculty of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Padova.

This presentation will be in person and on Zoom.

Proof of vaccination will be required to attend in person. Please submit prro fof vaccination through your Shulcloud account.

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