2012 Public Lecture Series

 

January 20th:   "New Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
    Arthur Kosowsky
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
February 17th:   "Type Ia Supernova Explosions: The Persistence of Memory"
    Carles Badenes
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
March 16th:   "Dark Energy, Quasars, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planets: How the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is Changing our View of the Universe"
    Michael Wood-Vasey
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
April 20th:   "Galaxies in front of Quasars"
    Regina Schulte-Ladbeck
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
May 18th:   "A Quest for Mass: From the sub-atomic to the universe"
    Tao Han
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
June 15th:   "The Color of the Milky Way"
    Jeffrey Newman
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
July 20th:   "Where Might Dark Matter Hide?" 
    Andrew Zentner
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
     
August 17th:   "The Universe on a Lab Bench"
    Michelle Ntampaka
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
     
September 21st:   "Calculating what's in the Universe using the Largest 3D Color Map of the Universe" 
    Shirley Ho
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
     
October 19th:   "Improving Science Education in the US through Astronomy Research Experiences"
    Timothy Spuck
    Oil City Area Senior High School
     
November 16th:   "Simulating the Universe with Supercomputers"
    Hy Trac
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
     
     
     

University of Pittsburgh
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Allegheny Observatory
159 Riverview Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15214

Last Modified 02/06/2012