Wednesday, September
22, 2004, 7 p.m.
IfA Manoa Auditorium
(2680
Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu)
with
video links to
IfA Hilo Auditorium
(640
North A‘ohoku Place in
Hilo’s
University
Park)
Maui Community College
(Ka
Lama 103)
Open to the public
Free admission and free parking
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Telescopes on Mauna Kea,
and space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope,
are now so powerful that they can see 12 billion years
back in time to an age when the first infant galaxies
were struggling to light up the Universe. Dr. Cowie
will discuss how these faint galaxies merged and grew
to make the Universe we see today.
Dr. Cowie has been a member of the IfA faculty since
1986 and was associate director from 1986 until 1997.
Born in Scotland, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard
University and subsequently held appointments at Princeton,
MIT, and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Dr.
Cowie was awarded the UH Regents’ Medal for Excellence
in Research in 1998, and this year he was elected Fellow
of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, the only
current UH faculty member to hold this honor.
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