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06/27/19

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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