Their are roughly four things (up to some subtle points) that astrophysicists classify as happening at the end of the life of a star: "complete annihilation", white dwarf, neutron star, and the famous black hole. We will discuss these different outcomes and describe what to expect (and a bit of why each happens). Of course (as you might expect) there is some interesting mathematics that goes along with this and in this talk we will see some of it. Although I will use some integration, not even algebra is needed to get something out of this talk (the emphasis will be on rudimentary understanding of how these theories work and some of the neat consequences that are sometimes surprising).

This talk will be very accessible and hopefully alot of fun. I hope to see you all there!