Allegheny Observatory Public Lectures

2012 Public Lecture Series
 

Allegheny Observatory hosts a public lecture the third Friday of each month except for December. Admission is free, but requires a reservation due to limited seating. For reservations, please call Lou Coban at the Observatory, 412-321-2400. This should be done the week after the previous lecture in the series.

Lectures begin at 7:30; light refreshments will be available beginning at 7 PM. A tour of the Observatory will be conducted following the lecture, and if the sky is clear an observing session with the historic 13-inch Fitz-Clark Refractor will follow the tour. The Observatory is located at 159 Riverview Avenue in Riverview Park on Pittsburgh's North Side.

January 20, 2012 - "New Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
Arthur Kosowsky
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
February 17, 2012 - "Type Ia Supernova Explosions: The Persistence of Memory"
Carles Badenes
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
March 16, 2012 - "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 20, 2012 - "Galaxies in front of Quasars"
Regina Schulte-Ladbeck
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
May 18, 2012 - "A Quest for Mass: From the sub-atomic to the Universe"
Tao Han
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
June 15, 2012 - "The Color of the Milky Way"
Jeffrey Newman
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
July 20, 2012 - "Where Might Dark Matter Hide?" 
Andrew Zentner
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
           
August 17, 2012 - "The Universe on a Lab Bench"
Michele Ntampka
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
           
September 21, 2012 - "Calculating what's in the Universe using the Largest 3D Color Map of the Universe"
Shirley Ho
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics
           
October 19, 2012 - "Improving Science Education in the US through Astronomy Research Experiences"
Timothy Spuck
Oil City Area Senior High School
           
November 16, 2012 - "Simulating the Universe with Supercomputers"
Hy Trac
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics


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