Caltech undergraduate Jenny Wan has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship, which will fund her first year of graduate studies at the University of Cambridge. 
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Vikram Ravi and his team, including two Caltech grad students, have discovered what appears to be a black-hole-eating-a-star events—also known as tidal disruption events, or TDEs—using archival observations made by radio telescopes. This would be only the second candidate to be found using radio waves.
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January 20  | 1pm-2pm
Join this week's LIGO Seminar "New Binary Black Hole Merger Detections in the LIGO-Virgo O3a Data" with Javier Roulet. 
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January 19  | 12pm-1pm
Join this week's Logic Seminar "Set Theory and a Proposed Model of the Mind in Psychology" with Asger Törnquist. 
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A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks. Despite the increase in image streaks, the new report notes that ZTF science operations have not been strongly affected. Study co-author Tom Prince says the paper shows a single streak affects less than one-tenth of a percent of the pixels in a ZTF image. 
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Another member of the new "Cow" class of supernova explosions has been discovered—the brightest one seen in X-rays to date.
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January 19  | 12:15pm
Join this week's IPAC Seminar "The California Legacy Survey: Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets" with Lee Rosenthal. 
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January 21  | 3pm-4pm
Join this week's Geometry and Topology Seminar "From 3-Manifolds to Modular Data" with Yang Qiu.
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January 20  | 10am-12pm
Drop in for coffee and conversation at the Cool Beans for all Postdocs (US and International) every third Thursday from 10am-12pm from December 2021-June 2022. 
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