Kyle Kabasares Physics PhD Dissertation Defense (University of California, Irvine)

This was the public presentation and defense of my PhD dissertation entitled: "Black Holes and Revelations: Dynamical Mass Measurements of Supermassive Black Holes in Early-Type Galaxies with ALMA and HST". The defense was held at UC Irvine on June 5, 2023, and was in a hybrid meeting format with attendees watching both in-person and on Zoom. The video is the recording of the Zoom call. The introduction was given my PhD advisor, Aaron Barth. Timestamps for different moments in the video are as follows: Introduction: 0:00 Start of Presentation: 5:03 Question on Dust Extinction: 38:04 Question on V_ext method: 56:47 Kyle's Acknowledgements: 1:10:20 Questions and Answers: 1:19:30 Committee Decision: 1:30:09