Speaker: Earl Bellinger - Yale University

PMA 15.216B

Speaker Bio: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Yale University and the Institute for the Foundations for Data Science, and I lead the Yale AstroML (YAML) Group.

My research broadly revolves around various kinds of pulsating stars, which are fascinating because they are key to many interesting astrophysical endeavours, such as testing our understanding of fundamental physics, finding the properties of exoplanets, uncovering the history of our Milky Way galaxy, and measuring the size and age of the Universe. I am a developer of the MESA stellar evolution code and a scientist working on the forthcoming PLATO mission. My research has been highlighted in Science magazine, Nature Astronomy, Discover, New Scientist, Universe Today, AAS Nova, and PBS Spacetime, among others. My research is funded by Yale, the DOE, NSF, and NASA.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany and at the Stellar Astrophysics Centre in Denmark. I have also done research at several other national and international laboratories, including NASA, NIST, and NII. I carried out my Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and at Yale, and I was a Presidential Scholar at SUNY Oswego and an NPSC Graduate Fellow at Indiana University and Yale University.