Professor McKinley Brumback is an astronomer who studies X-rays coming from some of the most energetic and extreme environments in the Universe. She uses observations from NASA and ESA X-ray observatories to investigate how matter behaves close to neutron stars, the ultra-dense and magnetic objects left behind by massive stars. Brumback is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She completed her PhD in Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College in 2020. After graduation, she continued her X-ray astronomy research with postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan.

Wednesday, October 25, 7 - 8 pm
Science-Speaker-Series
Zoom
TOPIC: Using X-rays to Probe the Universe’s Strongest Magnetic Fields