Informational, Meetings | Post by kharidiron on November 29th, 2006
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I’m quite concerned that it’s turned out this way, but this Thursday’s meeting, on November 30th at 5:30 PM in ISB 231, is the last general SPS meeting of the quarter! How did this happen? Oh yeah, the time parameter.
This week’s meeting features Terry Schalk, Adjunct Professor of Physics here at UCSC and a researcher at SCIPP, talking about his and his colleagues efforts and successes engaging in outreach programs. The SPS has wanted to do outreach for some time now, and this will be a good chance to both find out what makes a good outreach program and perhaps to either join forces with Terry and his colleagues or at least volunteer to help them next time they go demonstrate the giant crazy Tesla coil.
Coffee, tea, snack-stuff, etc.
Incidentally, the schedule for next quarter’s meetings will start shaping up soon. Check back here periodically for news and updates.
Everyone is welcome! Outreach is good! (Invite your friends! — Rion)
–James
Meetings | Post by kharidiron on November 17th, 2006
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This week’s meeting occurs Thursday, October 19th, at 5:30 PM in ISB 231, and will feature Professor Robert Johnson talking about the GLAST project, and UCSC/SCIPP’s role in particular.
According to Professor Johnson:
The GLAST Gamma-Ray Telescope Mission
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST, is an orbital mission being prepared for launch to measure the cosmic gamma-ray flux in the energy range 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. With its launch in late 2007, GLAST will open a new and important window on a wide variety of high energy phenomena, including black holes and active galactic nuclei; gamma-ray bursts; the origin of cosmic rays and supernova remnants; and searches for hypothetical new phenomena such as supersymmetric dark-matter annihilations, Lorentz-invariance violation, and exotic relics from the Big Bang. In addition to a review of some of the science opportunities, this presentation will describe the high-energy gamma-ray telescope and its components, with emphasis on the UCSC contributions, and review the mission status.
We will, of course, also be featuring coffee, soda and food, although I can’t guarantee that the cost and quality of the food will exactly mirror the cost and quality of the GLAST project. You’ll have to make do with the usual.
As always, all are welcome, even those who haven’t finished their 134 lab reports. Speaking of which…
–James
