TONIGHT Public Live Streamed Talk & Planetarium Tour Event - Friday, May 1st, 7PM EDT

[Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach]

Hi Stargazers,

We are holding a public live streamed talk, Q&A, and planetarium tour event TONIGHT Friday, May 1st, at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. The talk is The Genesis Project: Forming the First Stars presented by Dr. Daniel Wolf Savin.

This event will also be available as a recording. Since this event is virtual, please help us by inviting your friends who may live in different places around the world - all are welcome!

This lecture is a virtual event on YouTube Live and can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/C4lpBF5rai0

The approximate schedule for the evening is as follows. All times are EDT:

Lecture: 7:00-7:30PM

Audience Q&A for speaker via chat: 7:30-7:40PM

Planetarium Software Tour: 7:40-8:00PM

Description: After the Big Bang, the Universe expanded, cooled, and formed clouds of gas.  Out of these clouds, the first stars formed.  Here I will discuss how these first stars formed, the chemistry that led to their formation, and our laboratory studies to better understand this chemistry.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Daniel Wolf Savin performs laboratory studies of key chemical reactions that drive the physical and chemical evolution of the cosmos. He majored in Physics at Columbia University, earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, did a Postdoc at The University of California Berkeley, and then returned to Columbia, where he is a Senior Research Scientist in the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory.  Dr. Savin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Science Editor for The Astrophysical Journal.

Looking forward to "seeing" you,

Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach

[Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach]

Hi Stargazers,

We are holding a public live streamed talk, Q&A, and planetarium tour event THIS EVENING, Friday, October 16th, at 5:30 PM Eastern Time. The talk is The Last Stargazers presented by Dr. Emily Levesque. We are delighted to host Dr. Levesque, who will be featuring stories from her newly published book, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (https://thelaststargazers.com/).

This event will also be available as a recording. Since this event is virtual, please help us by inviting your friends who may live in different places around the world - all are welcome!

This lecture is a virtual event on YouTube Live and can be accessed via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMXtGONB_zDGw6GSOhAXxA

The approximate schedule for the evening is as follows. All times are Eastern time:

Lecture: 5:30-5:50PM

Audience Q&A for speaker via chat: 5:50-6:00PM

Description: A bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer that discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that got shot. The science of astronomy is filled with true stories (and tall tales) of the adventures and misadventures that accompany our exploration of the universe. Join Dr. Emily Levesque, author of the new popular science book The Last Stargazers, to take a behind-the-scenes tour of life as a professional astronomer. We'll learn about some of the most powerful telescopes in the world, meet the people who run them, and explore the crucial role of human curiosity in the past, present, and future of scientific discovery.

Speaker Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Levesque):

Emily Levesque is an American astronomer and assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She is renowned for her work on massive stars and using these stars to investigate galaxy formation. In 2014, she received the Annie Jump Cannon award for her innovative work on gamma ray bursts and the Sloan Fellowship in 2017. In 2015, Levesque, Rachel Bezanson, and Grant R. Tremblay published an influential paper, which critiqued the use of the Physics GRE as an admissions cutoff criterion for astronomy postgraduate programs by showing there was no statistical correlation between applicant's score and later success in their academic careers. Subsequently, the American Astronomical Society adopted the stance that the Physics GRE should not be mandatory for graduate school applications, and many graduate astronomy programs have since removed the Physics GRE as a required part of their graduate school applications. She is also the author of the 2020 popular science book The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers.