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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
06/27/19
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Release Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019
ACROSS
1 “Welcome to
Kauai!”
6 Channel bobber
10 Persian for
“crown”
13 “Service at the
Speed of Sound”
fast-food chain
14 Tolstoy title name
15 Moment or way
lead-in
16 Place to get gifts?
19 Web statistic
20 Cruet contents
21 “Yay me!”
23 French friend
24 Place to get
fireplace
equipment?
27 Hedy of
Hollywood
29 Stick with a boat?
30 Singer DiFranco
31 Roman fountain
32 “Rebel Yell”
singer Billy
34 Grasp, in slang
35 Place to get
movie actors?
38 Put up with
41 Techniques
42 Liver spreads
46 Prefix with
catastrophe
47 Online help page
48 “My turn”
49 Place to
get laundry
detergent?
53 Shopkeeper
who by his own
admission sells
“surprisingly
expensive” penny
candy at the
Kwik-E-Mart
54 Silent performers
55 Oz. or lb.
56 “Instinct” star
Cumming
57 Place to get
help with estate
planning?
61 Park it, so to
speak
62 Slope overlooking
a loch
63 Speak formally
64 Pair of allies?
65 “G’day”
addressee
66 Put on the back
burner
DOWN
1 It can cover a lot
2 “Dallas”
production studio
3 Former
4 Sound neither an
actor nor a hiker
wants to hear
5 Top fighter pilot
6 Dyeing art
7 “I give up!”
8 Peace activist
Yoko
9 Thanksgiving
veggie
10 Royal topper
11 Ring-shaped
12 Host of a
“garage” show
since 2014
17 Jordan’s
Queen __
18 Berth place
22 Composer Satie
24 __ fixe
25 They may be
pitched
26 Spanish
surrealist
28 Say with
conviction
32 Mosul native
33 Calendar square
34 FBI agent
36 Christmas poem
contraction
37 Tach nos.
38 Ray
39 Total or partial
event
40 Outlook
alternative
43 One steeping in
a cup
44 One-sided, in
legal proceedings
45 Huge surprise
47 Complain
48 Analogy words
50 Conquers
51 Pester
52 One sporting a
mic
56 “Back forty” unit
58 Tech giant
that sold its
PC division to
Lenovo
59 New Deal agcy.
60 Drift (off)
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Before Dr. Katie Bouman became
the center of a social media firestorm,
she would sit in “the bullpen” of DB
Cafe on the University of Michigan’s
North Campus with fellow members
of HKN, an electrical, computer and
computer science engineering frater-
nity, and eat “way too much Domino’s
pizza.”
About ten years later, Bouman hit
“go” on her computer at Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology’s Com-
puter Science & Artificial Intelligence
Lab to reveal a ring-shaped image
warped around a backdrop of hot gas.
A previously unseeable mass, Bou-
man captured the first ever image of
a black hole, a product of an algorithm
she helped develop with a team of
more than 200 scientists.
“I was going between the shock
that we were getting this — I think I
really expected things to go wrong,”
Bouman said. “Although I didn’t want
to say that out loud, I expected things
weren’t going to work the first time.
Going between that, we had to keep
pinching ourselves that this was real.
I was going through these emotions
of disbelief, awe and being afraid it
might even be fake.”
Bouman was fascinated with sci-
ence from a young age. Almost every
year starting from the sixth grade,
Bouman would compete in the junior-
senior high school science fair in West
Lafayette, Indiana. A few years later,
as a junior in high school, Bouman
began conducting image research
at Purdue University with a group
of graduate students. At Purdue,
she aided in the students’ research
attempting to figure out if they could
pinpoint from invisible signatures
which type of camera took which
image.
Coincidentally, at Purdue, Bouman
used the same computational device,
the Event Horizon telescope — a glob-
al array of telescopes coming from
the South Pole, Chile, Spain, Mexico
and the United States — as she would
work with years later to capture the
first image of the Messier 87 black
hole.
Because of this work at Purdue,
Bouman decided it fitting to pursue a
degree in electrical engineering at the
University of Michigan.
“You know, all the people in this
lab were electrical engineers so I
wanted to do this,” Bouman said. “I
guessed I should just be an electrical
engineer … I was kind of interested in
images, signals and that kind of side of
things from an early age. From that,
that’s what made me decide to go into
engineering and do research.”
However, Bouman theorizes her
early work at Purdue wasn’t the only
rationale behind her career path.
It really boils down to biology, she
admitted. Her father, brother and sis-
ter are all accomplished engineers.
“It’s one of those things where, as
a kid, I wanted to be as different from
my dad as possible,” Bouman said.
“I think that I thought I was doing
something very different from him,
I didn’t really know what he did. I
knew he was in electrical engineering
but I didn’t know details on what he
worked on. Initially, I was doing more
stuff in the computer vision realm.
But as I got older, I think biology took
over, whether that is good or bad, I
don’t know.”
In 2008, Bouman moved into
East Quad Residence Hall, a part of
the Michigan Research Commu-
nity — now the Michigan Discovery
and Scholars program — and began
attending 101 classes for her project-
ed degree, electrical engineering. At
the end of her first year, she received
the William Harvey Seeley Prize, an
award given to an electrical engineer-
ing freshman first in their class.
Clayton Scott, University of Michi-
gan professor of electrical engi-
neering and computer science, cites
Bouman as the first student whose
name he remembered in his probabil-
ity class.
“She answered questions well, and
asked her own challenging questions
of me in return,” Scott wrote in an
email to The Daily. “Her questions
indicated a clear interest in not only
learning the basic course content, but
in applying and extending it in new
directions.”
After graduating from the Uni-
versity in 2011, Bouman moved to
Cambridge, Massachusetts to pursue
a masters degree and eventually a
post doctoral degree in both electri-
cal engineering and computer science
at MIT. About two years after her
arrival at MIT, she joined the Event
Horizons Telescope project with no
previous knowledge on black holes.
“I kind of stumbled across the proj-
ect,” Bouman said. “My advisor was
going to give a talk to the group and so
I went with him and was looking for
new ideas or projects to get into.”
SAMANTHA SMALL
Summer News Editor
Katie Bouman on time at ‘U,’ black hole research
Courtesy of Katie Bouman
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