Exploring Astrophysics
Join me as I learn about the world of Astrophysics. My name is Vikram Bhamre and I am 18 years old. On my podcast, Exploring Astrophysics, I chat with some of the most incredible astrophysicists around the world on the most interesting questions left unanswered in astrophysics. What's amazing is how helpful and forthcoming they all are and I hope you too are inspired when you listen to them.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech
Welcome to episode 30 of exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Today I am joined by Dr. Kareem El-Badry, a researcher who works mostly in the analysis of binary star systems and has obtained…
Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech
Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of exploring astrophysics. Today I am speaking to Dr Lynne Hillenbrand, a professor of Astronomy at Caltech who is an expert in the formation and evolution of …
Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University
Today I am joined by Dr Maria Charisi, a postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt university. Her expertise is in looking for Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries: which are systems that are formed during th…
Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
In this episode, Dr Simcoe spoke about his research involving spectroscopy to look back into the early universe and search for the first stars. He also spoke about another interest of his - designing…
Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology
In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in our galaxy. We talked about …
Dr Christian Byrnes, Senior lecturer at the University of Sussex
Dr Byrnes talked about his journey to astrophysics having initially started out with a Mathematics degree at the University of Cambridge. He also talked about his research looking at the early univer…
Dr Javier Garcia, Assistant professor of physics at Caltech
Dr Garcia has been looking at the gravitational fields near black holes and neutron stars to better understand the phenomenon we see in these unordinary circumstances. He talked about his transition …
Dr Kathy Romer, Professor at the university of Sussex
Dr Romer shared some of her most exciting and coolest experiences as an astrophysicist, including a trip to the south pole! She also mentioned how in the past astronomers would have to travel to the …
Dr Raissa Estrela, Postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In this episode Dr Estrela spoke about her research into classifying and charecterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets, and also her research the effects of stellar activity on these exoplanets. Dr Es…
Dr Olivier Hervet, Assistant project scientist at UC Santa Cruz
Active galactic nuclei are found in the centers of galaxies and emit extremely high levels of radiation, which Dr Hervet tries to model computationally. Dr Hervet is also part of the VERITAS collabor…
Dr Xinnan Du, Outreach and Engagement manager at KIPAC Stanford
This episode Dr Du spoke about some of her work looking at the physical properties of the interstellar medium in distant galaxies. She also spoke about her interest in asgtronomy outreach and the kin…
Dr Tansu Daylan, Posdoctoral associate and MIT and Princeton
Dr Daylan, told me about his work on explanets utilising primarily the TESS mission, and how the transit method is used to discover these planets. Additionally, he also spoke about the charecteristic…
Dr Rana Ezzeddine, Assistant professor and Astrophysicist as the University of Florida
In this episode Dr Ezzeddine told me about how the chemical and physical compositions of stars can be inferred by the use of spectroscopy. Additionally, she explained what the r-process is, and how b…
Dr Saeed Salimpour, Researcher at IAU's Office of Astronomy for Education
Dr Salimpour explained the intersection between art and cosmology, and why he believes those two things are inextricable. He also delved into how the beauty of simplicity underlies all of cosmology.
Sven Heydenreich, PHD student at the University of Bonn
In this episode, Sven spoke to me about his work in gravitational lensing, and more specifically, a novel statistical analysis method he is developing. He also spoke about how he transitioned to astr…
Marcus Keil, PHD student at University College London
In this episode, Marcus spoke to me about his current PHD work as well as his interest in cosmology. He explained a little about Astrochemistry and the research he is doing related to it. Lastly, he …
Dr Niall Jeffrey, Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
Dr Jeffery goes into detail about how dark energy and dark matter, two things he is researching extensively, are elusive and that astrophysicists know very little about it. The Dark Energy Survey is …
Dr Peter Doel, Professor of Astronomical Instrumentation at University College London
This episode I spoke to Dr Doel about some of the projects he has been working on. He told me about the considerations that need to be accounted for when retrofitting telescopes as well as how he ent…
Prof. Marco Cavaglia, Professor of Physics at Missouri University
This episode I spoke to Dr Cavaglia about what the LIGO collaboration is and how it operates, as well as some of the details of the interferometers. He also spoke about the kinds of data cleaning a d…
Dr Boris Leistedt, Researcher at Imperial College London
I spoke to Dr Leistedt on how statistics plays an important role in astronomy, as well as why astronomy is somewhat unique in comparison to other fields of physics such as particle physics. In additi…