Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

How to get started in undergraduate research: Workshop A

Workshop | October 1 | 9-10 a.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Speaker: Wendy Muse Sinek, Program Coordinator, Haas Scholars Program, Office of Undergraduate Research

Sponsor: Office of Undergraduate Research

This workshop will give you a broad overview of why and how to get started planning for an original research or creative project as an undergraduate. We will also discuss how to define your interests, find a mentor, and apply for funding.

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Focusing Light in Biological Tissues by Time-Reversing Light

Seminar: Adaptive Optics | October 2 | 12-1 p.m. | B-1 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Changhuei Yang, Caltech

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The reason we can't see through our hands isn't because our hands absorb light strongly. Instead, it is because our hands scatter light strongly. Interestingly, light scattering in tissues may look random but their trajectories are deterministic. As such, it is possible to create a situation where light scattered from a tissue will retrace their paths through the tissue. This can be accomplished...   More >

Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters in a hierarchical Universe

Seminar | October 2 | 1:10 p.m. | B1 Hearst Field Annex

Speaker/Performer: Andrew Wetzel, Yale

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

Satellite galaxies in groups and clusters play a critical role in the picture of galaxy evolution. As many as a third of all galaxies are satellites, and satellite star formation quenching is the dominant process in building the red-sequence population at low stellar mass. I will present an observational and theoretical investigation into the evolution of star formation in satellite galaxies,...   More >

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Supernovae Reveal an Accelerating Universe: Raymond and Beverly Sacker Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy

Lecture: Special Events | October 3 | 5-6 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker: Adam Riess, Professor, Johns Hopkins University & the Space Telescope Science Institute

Sponsors: Department of Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler

2011 Nobel Laureate Adam Riess will describe how his team shared in the discovery of the acceleration of the Universe and why understanding the nature of dark energy presents one of the greatest remaining challenges in astrophysics and cosmology.

Supernovae Reveal an Accelerating Universe: The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy

Special Event | October 3 | 5 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker/Performer: Adam Riess, Professor, Johns Hopkins University & STScI

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

In 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that our Universe is expanding. Eighty years later, the Space Telescope that bears his name is being used to study an even more surprising phenomenon: that the expansion is speeding up. The origin of this effect is not known, but is broadly attributed to a type of "dark energy" first posited to exist by Albert Einstein and now dominating the mass-energy budget of...   More >

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

Precision Measurements of the Hubble Constant and PASS

Colloquium: Astronomy Colloquia | October 4 | 4 p.m. | 2 LeConte Hall

Speaker/Performer: Adam Riess, JHU

Sponsor: Department of Astronomy

The Hubble constant remains one of the most important parameters in the cosmological model, setting the size and age scales of the Universe. Present uncertainties in the cosmological model including the nature of dark energy, the properties of neutrinos and the scale of departures from flat geometry can be constrained by measurements of the Hubble constant made to higher precision than was...   More >

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4

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.

Space Junk 3–D Film

Film - Documentary | September 4, 2012 – January 6, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science, 3-D Theater / Auditorium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take a trip to outer space to learn more about the space junk
collisions in Earth’s orbit. See the satellites that make modern life possible.

Target audiences: Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Tickets $4 after admission.

Tickets required:$4