Conveners
Roundtable: Solar neutrinos and Borexino
- Wick Haxton (University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
- Gianpaolo Bellini (University of Milano and INFN)
Roundtable: GRB 170817A and GRB 190829A
- Liang Li (ICRANet, Piazza della Repubblica 10, I-65122 Pescara, Italy)
- Jorge Armando Rueda Hernandez (ICRANet)
- Rahim Moradi (ICRANet and ICRA-Sapienza)
- Eleonora Troja (NASA/GSFC)
Roundtable: What is in our Galactic center
- Carlos Raúl Argüelles (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
- Jorge Armando Rueda Hernandez (ICRANet)
- Eduar Becerra Vergara
- Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Insitute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
- Andreas Krut
Roundtable: Precision cosmology
- Marc Kamionkowski
- Licia Verde (ICREA & ICC Universitat de Barcelona)
- Piero Rosati (Dept. of Physics and Earth Science University of Ferrara)
Motivated in part by the recent measurements of the Borexino Collaboration, I will describe the current status of solar neutrino physics, including the impact of measurements on our knowledge of neutrino properties. Questions remain about the sun’s metallicity and the equivalence of its weak and electromagnetic luminosities — topics relevantly, respectively, to early solar evolution and to...
Our understanding of compact binary mergers was transformed by the spectacular discovery of GW170817, the first neutron star merger observed through gravitational waves and light. The electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817 was initially dominated by a luminous kilonova, peaking at optical and then infrared wavelengths. At 9 days, we detected in X-rays the onset of a different component of...
More than one hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity (GR). One year later, Karl Schwarzschild solved the GR equations for a non-rotating, spherical mass distribution; if this mass is sufficiently compact, even light cannot escape from within the so-called event horizon, and there is a mass singularity at the center. The theoretical concept of a 'black...
