Dominic Chang
I am currently a PhD candidate in physics at Harvard University working under Michael Johnson with the local Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) group. I currently research black hole phenomenology. Some topics and techniques I routinely use include strong field gravitational lensing, the phenomenology of exotic black hole space times, Newman-Penrose formalism and Bayesian inference.
Session
The images of the shadows of M87 and SgrA* have produced an increased interest in the study of electromagnetic signatures around black holes. These images probe the near horizon region of black holes with unprecedented fidelity. I will present work that details how information about the space time and accretion flow around super massive black holes can be extracted from the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data used to make these images.