A Sky Full of Stars – 1:00 p.m.

Presentation | June 9 – August 26, 2012 every day | 1-1:45 p.m. |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

What's that in the sky? We use our friendly Planetarium as a time machine to speed through a day, observing the sky from the Sun to the stars. Once night falls, the audience can stargaze at the Big Dipper, and imagine pictures in the stars. Then we can planet-hop within our Solar System to visit planets up close. What can you see in a sky full of stars?
Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children

Open to audiences: All Audiences, Children

Attendance restrictions: Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Purchased at the Visitor Services desk. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.

Weak Lensing Simulations and Precision Cosmology with Large Area Sky Surveys

Seminar | August 28 | 1:10 p.m. | B1 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Matt Becker, Chicago

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

Weak lensing measurements are an essential part of near- and long-term large-area sky surveys aimed at an array of scientific goals, like understanding Dark Energy, elucidating further the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, constraining modifications to General Relativity, etc. The weak lensing community has undertaken extensive simulation efforts, both CCD image simulations and...   More >

WFIRST: A Cold, Gold, Unobstructed Three-Mirror-Anastigmat with a Large HgCdTe Focal Plane

Colloquium: Astronomy Colloquia | August 30 | 2 LeConte Hall

Speaker/Performer: Paul Schechter, MIT

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The Wide-Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope, WFIRST, is a 1.3-m three mirror anastigmatic telescope with 36 HgCdTe 2048x2048 arrays. These will be used both for direct imaging and for slitless spectroscopy out to 2.4 microns. The WFIRST design reference mission includes: one year of direct imaging; one year of deep spectroscopy for a galaxy redshift survey to z=2.5, a year and a half microlensing...   More >

Physics Graduate Student Social Hour

Social Event | August 28, 2009 – December 28, 2012 every Friday | 5-7 p.m. | LeConte Hall, 375 - Helmholz Room

Sponsor: Graduate Assembly

Graduate students, staff, and faculty from any department are invited to this weekly event held by the Physics Graduate Student Association as a forum for informal networking and communication between scientists and science enthusiasts from all career levels. Come by for a relaxing atmosphere with delicious refreshments usually sponsored by the GA.