Did you tell David and Susan? > From: Noelle <noelle> > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 15:30:40 +0000 (UTC) > > Mt Hamilton observatory closed to summer events but they have Zoom meetings > coming up > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: UC Observatories <http://www.ucolick.org/~mcampbell> > To: "http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>Sent: Friday, June 5, > 2020, 03:44:14 PM PDT > | > 🔭 Astronomy Virtual Event > Monday at 4pm PDT! > | | > | > •••Join us live next Monday, June 8 at 4pm PDT••• > Dr. Claire Max, Director of UC Observatories will launch our Living Room > Lectures via Zoom. We also plan to share via UCO's Facebook page on June 8 > at 4pm (PDT). > > Dr. Max will talk about her current research interests including ADAPTIVE > OPTICS, LASER GUIDE STARS, and COLLIDING GALAXIES! This is going to be a > fantastic insight into the world of astronomy. Join us live! > > Save this Zoom link it will be used for this event and all future Living Room > Lectures: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98932317498. ; > > The video of this talk will be made available after the event on our Facebook > page and our YouTube channel. We'll send out a link shortly after the event. | > > | > Brief Biography - Claire Ellen Max > Claire Max is the Bachmann Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the > University of Ca, Santa Cruz, where she is Director of the University > of Ca Observatories. She graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B.) and > Princeton University (Ph.D.), and was a postdoc at UC . Dr. Max was a > physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for many years, where > she was the founding director LLNL's branch of the Institute of Geophysics and > Planetary Physics. At UC Santa Cruz she was a founder and Director of the > Center for Adaptive Optics, an NSF Science and Technology Center. > > She is a co-founder of the Akamai Workforce Initiative in Hawaii, which > advances Hawaii college students into the high-technology workforce. She is > faculty liaison for Education and Public Outreach programs at Lick Observatory > on Mt. Hamilton in Ca. > > Dr. Max is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy > of Arts and Sciences, and the Ca Academy of Sciences. She is a Legacy > Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the American > Physical Society, the SPIE, and the American Association for the Advancement of > Science. > > Awards > The Ernest O. Lawrence Award in Physics by the US Department of Energy in 2004 > The James Madison Medal of Princeton University in 2009 > The American Astronomical Society's Joseph Weber Award for Instrumentation in > 2016. | > > 💫 UPCOMING EVENTS 🔭 > Join us live on Monday, June 15 at 4pm PDT > Dr. Matthew Shetrone, Deputy Director of UC Observatories, kicks off our > Ask-an-Astronomer series hosted on Lick Observatory Instagram live. Here is > the perfect opportunity to have all of your astronomy questions answered, no > lecture required! > > Send your questions in advance for Ask-an-Astronomer email http://www.ucolick.org/~social > or post them on our UCO Facebook or Lick Observatory Instagram accounts. > Tune in to watch live to see if your question gets selected that week. > > Monday, June 22 at 4pm PDT > Living Room Lecture > Dr. Andy Skemer, UCSC > Topic: Imaging Planets around Other Stars > Dr. Skemer will describe how we image exoplanets, why we image exoplanets, and > where the field is heading as we develop technologies that will soon be capable > of detecting bio-signatures on habitable planets. > Living Room Lecture Series shared via Zoom and via UCO Facebook > > Monday, June 29 at 4pm PDT > Ask-an-Astronomer > Speaker TBD > Topic: You tell us! > Ask-an-Astronomer Series shared on Lick Observatory Instagram Live > |