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Open House 2012 Family Lectures

Times and programs are subject to change.

 

Auditorium

11:30 Günther Hasinger: Black Holes in the Early Universe

12:15 Shadia Habbal: What Happens When the Sun Decides To Be Naughty

1:00 Peter Gorham: Neutrino Astronomy Above and Below Antarctica

1:45 Toby Owen: Is/Was There Life on Mars?

2:30 Karen Meech: Comets—Space Junk or the Rosetta Stones of the Solar System?

3:15 Nader Haghighipour: The Search for Habitable Planets

 

Room C-221

1:00 Gareth Wynn-Williams: The June 5th Transit of Venus

1:45 Caitlin Casey: When Galaxies Collide: From the Dawn of Time to the Fate of the Milky Way

2:30 Ken Chambers: The Machinery of Discovery: Two Years of Mapping Our Universe with
                 Pan-STARRS and Supercomputers

 

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