Supermassive Black Holes Do Not Form from Stellar Black Holes

By Whitney Harder

(April 6, 2016) — Often containing more than a billion times the mass than our Sun, supermassive black holes have perplexed humans for decades. But new research by University of Kentucky astrophysicist Isaac Shlosman and collaborators will help to understand the physical processes at the edge of time and space, providing the details of how supermassive black holes formed 13 billion years ago.

From the Mirror of Narcissus to Mirror Neurons: Cognitive Science and the Hyper-realism of Garrone's Gomorrah

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This presentation will propose a neuro-scientific approach to the heightened realism of Matteo Garrone’s film Gomorrah. Research on the workings of “mirror neurons” has shown that certain techniques, above all the use of the steadicam, have been particularly effective in producing an embodied response in the viewer. In the case of Gomorrah, where the majority of the shooting is done by steadicam (wielded by Garrone himself!), the film’s heightened realism may well find its explanation at the neurological level. The talk will include close analysis of key scenes throughout Gomorrah, with a brief foray into a second film, Gabriele Salvatore’s I’m Not Scared, before concluding with some general reflections on the critical possibilities opened up by this exciting new field of research.

Millicent Marcus is Professor of Italian and Film Studies at Yale University. Her speciali-zations include medieval literature, Italian cinema, interrelationships between literature and film, and representations of the Holocaust in post-war Italian culture. She is the au-thor of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the 'Decameron' (l979), Ital-ian Film in the Light of Neorealism (l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (l993) and After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (2002), and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (2007). She has also published nu-merous articles on Italian literature and on film, and is currently studying contemporary Italian cinema within the theoretical framework of “post-realism.”

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Bingham Davis House, 1st floor Conference Room

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Teresa Lazzari

My name is Teresa Lazzari and I am currently in my junior year as a mathematical economics major here at the University of Kentucky, where I will graduate in May of 2017 and pursue a career as an actuary.  I was born and raised in Florence, KY where I graduated from Boone County High School class of 2013. My parents, Jim and Mary Lazzari have four children, I being the youngest.  My oldest brother, Blake is currently married to his high school sweetheart, Becky and are living in Dubai for a couple of years due to work.  My other brother, Nick is currently in Indiana working on his PGA certification at a golf course.  My sister, Gina is graduating this May from nursing school here at UK, where she will be working post-graduation. My sister and I live together down here in Lexington. I am an active member of Kappa Delta Sorority on campus, where I spend most of my time. Being in a sorority takes up a lot of my time outside of class, but I still manage to keep up personal hobbies such as running, drawing and playing with dogs.

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