The AstroStat Slog » November http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 “Thanks to Henrietta Leavitt” http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/thanks-to-henrietta-leavitt/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:17 +0000 vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=927 [9/30/2008]

The CfA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation on Nov 6, 2008. See http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/leavitt/ for details.

[Update 10/03] For a nice introduction to the story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, listen to this Perimeter Institute talk by George Johnson: http://pirsa.org/06050003/

[Update 11/06] The full program is now available. The symposium begins at Noon today.

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