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*Event Type*: [[PublicLectures][Lecture and Stargazing]]<br>
*Title*: A Brief History of the Fast Radio Burst Enigma<br>
*Lecturer*: Liam Connor<br>
*Position*: Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
*Institution*: Caltech<br>
*Abstract*: <br>
Fast Radio Bursts, or “FRBs”, are short blasts of radio waves that come from galaxies billions of light years away. They are extraordinarily bright, brief, and common, but due to technological limitations we only began discovering them recently. Despite significant progress in the field, the exact origin of FRBs remains unclear. In my lecture, I’ll walk through an exciting decade of FRB discovery and speculate on what is (and what almost certainly isn’t...) causing these mysterious, powerful flashes from across the universe.

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