Public Outreach Lecture Series / Spring 2010

This is a lecture series put on for the benefit of the public. Each lecture lasts approximately 30 minutes and is accompanied by 1.5 hours of star-gazing on the roof if the weather cooperates. Talks are targeted at the astronomical-education level of a layperson (oftentimes children are in attendance). Talks typically meet in Pupin 301; directions will be provided around the observatory to the lecture on each given night. For more information, go to the Wiki Outreach webpage or the ​Public Outreach webpage.

If you're interested in giving an outreach lecture in a coming semester, please contact Cameron or Neil.

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Date		Speaker		Title		Start Time		Abstract
Jan 22		Neil Zimmerman		The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the 21st Century		7:00PM		Abstract
Feb 5		Emily Rice		Cooler than the Coolest Stars: Brown Dwarfs		7:00PM		Abstract
Feb 19		Summer Ash		Galactic Planet Hunting		7:00PM		Abstract
Mar 5		John Ruan		Gamma-ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe		7:00PM		Abstract
Mar 26		Yuan Li		Shaping Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes		8:00PM		Abstract
Apr 9		Destry Saul		Hearing Cosmic Static: The Accidental and Amateur Birth of Radio Astronomy		8:00PM		Abstract
Apr 23		David Helfand		The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing Pre-History Atom by Atom		8:00PM		Abstract
May 7		Anand Sivaramakrishnan		Smaller mirror, more planets?||	8:00PM		Abstract