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U.S. D.O.E. Early Career Award

Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Work (BREW) Champion

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Betelgeuse: a review

Monte Carlo Radiation Transport for Astrophysical Transients Powered by Circumstellar Interaction

Betelgeuse as a Merger of a Massive Star with a Companion

Evidence for Evolved Stellar Binary Mergers in Observed B-type Blue Supergiants

Spectroscopic Modeling of Luminous Transients Powered by H-rich and He-rich Circumstellar Interaction

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Talking Business: Meet the astrophysicist who is working to make parking easier

These Louisiana venture capitalists, armed with federal money, are racing to invest in startups.

An LSU astrophysics professor invented a tool to find parking. It just sold in a major deal.

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From Betelgeuse to R Corona Borealis: The Role of Stellar Mergers in Stellar Evolution

Manos Chatzopoulos (Louisiana State University) Astronomy Seminar 10.29.18

IA-FORTH seminar, Prof. Manos Chatzopoulos, Ball Aerospace, Louisiana State University, (USA & CEO of ParkZen), talks about "Entrepreneurship for Astronomers...", 22 May 2024.

IA-FORTH seminar by Prof. Manos Chatzopoulos, 22 May 2024

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