Renowned astrophysicist, Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who has helped the world expand its understanding of the universe, is one of guest speakers at the Institute’s Science Week.
She will give a talk on ‘Black Holes in Space’ this Thursday evening (12th) in Lecture Hall A0006 at 7.30pm, as part of the IT Sligo Science Week 2015 Lecture Series.
Professor Bell Burnell, who is originally from Lurgan, Co Armagh, is visiting Professor of Astrophysics at University of Oxford.
She discovered pulsars while completing her PhD at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. Using a radio telescope designed by her advisor Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle (both men later shared a Nobel prize for their work), Bell Burnell found strange radio pulses coming from a single point in the sky.
Thursday’s event is open to the public.
Admission is free.