Natasha Ivanova - Formation of low-mass X-ray binaries with a black hole accretor

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Ivanova is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Alberta. She completed a M.Sc in mathematics and astronomy at Saint-Petersburg State University, then was an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford. Ivanova has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, and most recently is the ninth recipient of the Beatrice D. Tremaine Postdoctoral Fellowship, given by the CITA council for outstanding research by a postdoctoral researcher. Her research on interacting compact binaries, and in particular on studies of neutron stars in globular clusters, lead to a significant advance in our understanding of neutron star formation channels, as well as provided the link between the theory and observations for millisecond pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries both in our and distant galaxies. Of particular interest to Ivanova are stellar and high energy astrophysics, stellar populations, stellar dynamics, and hydrodynamics.

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