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David Nice, visiting assistant professor of physics at BrynMawrCollege, will discuss “Weighing Neutron Stars” 12 – 1 p.m. Friday, April 13 in Gagnon Lecture Hall, room 100 HugelScienceCenter.
The lecture, which is sponsored by the physics club, will focus on the use of radio observations of pulsing neutron stars to measure relativistic phenomena in their orbital motion.
Nice’s research focuses on observations of pulsars – rapidly rotating neutron stars – using large radio telescopes such as those in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and Green Bank, West Virginia. His recent work concentrates on pulsars in binary systems, using the detection of relativistic phenomena to constrain neutron star masses, test theories of gravity, and to study the evolution of eclipsing pulsar binaries.
Nice has presented his research at conferences abroad and in the U.S. and has published in numerous scholarly journals. He spent three years as Jansky Fellow of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice received his Ph.D. and M.A. in physics from PrincetonUniversity and a B.S. in physics from Caltech.