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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Eve Vavagiakis: Inspiring The Next Generation ​(#220)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dr. Vavagiakis is a postdoctoral associate in the Physics Department at Cornell University. She work on four collaborations: ACT, CCAT-prime, CMB-S4, and the Simons Observatory. www.simonsobservatory.org https://act.princeton.edu https://ccatobservatory.org https://cmb-s4.org Eve got her PhD at Cornell University in 2021, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Provost Diversity Fellow on instrumentation and analysis for cosmology and astrophysics. She designed Mod-Cam, a first light instrument for the CCAT Observatory‘s Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). And is currently leading the development of Mod-Cam for first light on the FYST, located at 5600 meter elevation in the Atacama Desert, Chile. In addition to building instrumentation, Dr. Vavagiakis analyzes maps of the cosmic microwave background to measure thermal and kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich signals. These measurements probe the contents and evolution of galaxy groups and clusters and will constrain the fundamental physics of our universe. Eve is an enthusiastic science communicator to a diverse public audience, and authoring children’s books with MIT Kids Press which will highlight modern physics and astronomy experiments. The first book is “I’m a Neutrino,” available on Amazon. “I’m a Neutrino” is an accessible and visually arresting picture book about one of the universe's most mysterious particles for the youngest scientific minds. Please Visit our Sponsors: LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/impossible to post a job for FREE Athletic Greens, makers of AG1 which I take every day. Get an exclusive offer when you visit https://athleticgreens.com/impossible AG1 is made from the highest quality ingredients, in accordance with the strictest standards and obsessively improved based on the latest science. All 33 Chairs. My All33 Chair is the ideal chair for all of us ‘knowledge workers’ suffering through unending Zoom calls. Sitting still is bad for you. All33 chairs are my choice because they allow your pelvis to move the way it does while you walk — so all 33 vertebrae align into perfect posture. The result? Better breathing, better blood flow, and relief from pain. It’s crazy what you can do when you set your body to it. To get $100 off your order, visit https://all33.com/impossible Search for The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, or go to jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Please join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Produced by Stuart Volkow (P.G.A) and Brian Keating Edited by Stuart Volkow Music: Yeti Tears Miguel Tully - www.facebook.com/yetitears/ Theo Ryan - http://the-omusic.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Cosmology was a way for me to be intellectually greedy because it's literally everything.

0:05.0

And what could be more compelling than literally everything all at once?

0:09.0

To think that I as this small creature, this meat machine that is on this little space rock flying around in a

0:17.6

nondescript part of the galaxy. I design, right? If it was too exciting here, we wouldn't be able to be life form, so it's actually quite boring.

0:25.0

That I can look out and devote my professional life to studying the entire universe every day. That gets me out of bed.

0:35.0

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:45.6

Open the pod bay doors, please help.

0:49.6

Well, it isn't every day that I get to interview a friend, a collaborator, a brilliant young

0:58.9

first-time author, a new postdoc, a post doctor, a fellow, and really just one of the, one of my favorite people

1:07.0

that I get to collaborate with and that now we can get to learn from and you can get to learn

1:12.4

from out there in the world because she is the

1:13.7

author of this wonderful new book from a first person perspective from a neutrino and that's

1:20.0

none of the eve of a yikis hope, I always hope I pronounce it correctly, Eve, that I do okay.

1:26.0

You did, you did great. And it's illustrated by another a little bit unusual name to pronounce, but

1:32.3

Ilse lemesis yeah that's awesome good

1:36.1

all right well that's the end of the interview I dropped the mic Brian has a win that's

1:41.2

all that matters no I'm just kidding.

1:43.4

Eve, it's such a pleasure to talk to you.

1:45.6

You and I have been friends since we began collaborating.

1:48.8

I've tried unsuccessfully at least three times

1:50.7

to get you to come to UC San Diego, but I'm not bitter I'm not bitter at all

1:54.1

But now you're here virtually back again. You'll be back hopefully this summer for our face-to-face meeting for the Simon's observatory where Eve works tirelessly on all things experimental.

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