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Posts tagged ‘2009’
The 2009 Physics Nobel is shared (along with Charles Kao, who is cited for suggesting optic fibers) by Willard Boyle and George Smith, inventors of the Charge-coupled Device.
The CCD, of course, is the workhorse of modern Astronomy. I cannot even imagine how things would be without it.
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Is Calculus the ultimate goal of mathematical education? Arthur Benjamin has a slightly subversive suggestion in this TED presentation.
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From Christian Fendt comes this announcement:
——————————————————————
First Announcement and Call for Applications
——————————————————————The “International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg” (IMPRS-HD)
announces the
— 4th Heidelberg Summer School:
— Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data
— August 10-14, 2009
From Jogesh Babu comes this announcement:
Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers V
June 1-6, 2009
Penn State University
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su09/
Continue reading ‘[Announce] AstroStat Summer School at Penn State’ »
The year 2009 is the Darwin bicentennial and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of Species, but, um, even more importantly, it is the International Year of Astronomy, celebrating 400 orbits since Galileo started to look through a telescope.