[Physics-grads-open] [physics-grads-open] (Date changed!) Physics & Astronomy Student Seminar (PASS), May 31st at 4 pm, Phys 3027

[Ming-Feng Ho]

Happening in 30 mins!

Ming-Feng


On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 7:30 PM Ming-Feng Ho <mingfeng.ho at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> A reminder that we will have a PASS seminar *tomorrow,* *Tuesday (May
> 31), at 4 pm.*
>
> Wei-Xiang will talk about how to produce supermassive black holes at
> high-redshift, using SIDM.
>
> This talk is a high-energy/astroparticle talk. We encourage students
> interested in this field to come and ask questions.
>
> Details of the PASS program, please find here [Program
> <https://jibancat.github.io/ucr-student-seminars/program/index.html>].
>
> Best,
> Ming-Feng
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:30 AM Ming-Feng Ho <mingfeng.ho at email.ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In observance of Memorial Day (Monday, May 30), we changed our PASS
>> seminar to *Tuesday at 4 pm *for next week.
>>
>>
>> We are very happy to have Wei-Xiang Feng (UCR) from the high-energy group
>> to talk about the seeding of supermassive black holes using
>> self-interacting dark matter.
>>
>>
>> *Title: Seeding Supermassive Black Holes with Self-Interacting Dark
>> Matter*
>>
>> Wei-Xiang Feng (University of California, Riverside)
>>
>> *Abstract*: Observations show that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with
>> a mass of ∼10^9 M⊙ exist when the universe is just 6% of its current age.
>> Recently, we have proposed a scenario where a self-interacting dark matter
>> halo experiences gravothermal instability and its central region collapses
>> into a seed black hole. Our results indicate that self-interacting dark
>> matter can provide a unified explanation for diverse dark matter
>> distributions in galaxies today and the origin of SMBHs at redshifts z ∼
>> 6–7. If time permits, I will talk about the other related topics of BHs.
>>
>> Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 4 pm
>> Physics 3027 (Nebula Room)
>>
>> Details of the PASS program, please find here [Program
>> <https://jibancat.github.io/ucr-student-seminars/program/index.html>].
>>
>> We have one more presenter for the Spring Quarter (June 6 Pak Kau Lim).
>> And three more presenters (Mahdi Qezlou, Reza Monadi, and Elizabeth Finney)
>> are queued in the Summer Quarter.
>>
>> To submit abstracts for Summer Quarter: [Abstract Submission
>> <https://jibancat.github.io/ucr-student-seminars/registration/index.html>
>> ].
>>
>> Hope to see you there!
>> Ming-Feng Ho
>>
>>
>>
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