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Nov1
Magnetism and morphology in the interstellar medium
Susan Clark, Stanford University
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The interstellar medium is the "stuff between the stars" in galaxies: the dynamic, turbulent environment out of which new stars are born. Understanding the processes that govern star formation and galactic evolution are areas of active research, and open questions abound. Particularly mysterious is the role of the interstellar magnetic field. Galaxies like our own Milky Way are threaded by magnetic fields, and their effect on interstellar processes is not well understood. In this talk we will explore some recent progress in this field, with a particular focus on how the morphology of interstellar gas and dust encodes information about interstellar magnetism.
About Susan Clark
Susan Clark is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford. She is an astrophysicist, with primary research interests in cosmic magnetic fields, magnetohydrodynamic processes, and the interstellar medium. Susan and her group tackle these complex systems with a combination of observation, simulation, and analytic theory. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, Susan was a NASA Hubble Fellow and postdoctoral member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2017 as an NSF Graduate Fellow, and her B.S. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.
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