Nov 6th, 2008| 06:00 am | Posted by vlk
[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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Apr 8th, 2008| 04:32 pm | Posted by vlk
For people in the Boston area, a cornucopia of talks on Google Sky in the near future.
- Hunting for Needles in Massive Astronomical Data Streams
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4pm
Room 330, 60 Oxford St.
Ryan Scranton, Google Sky Team
- Inside Google Sky
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 8pm
Room 105, Emerson Hall
Andrew Connolly, Google Sky Team
- Sky in Google Earth
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1pm
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden
Alberto Conti & Carol Christian, STScI
Nov 7th, 2007| 06:52 pm | Posted by vlk
Another one in the CXC/CfA Visualizing Astronomy series: “The Digital Universe: Cosmic Cartography and Data Visualization”, by Brian Abbott of Hayden Planetarium & Department of Astrophysics, next Tuesday, Nov 13, at 2pm in Phillips. Continue reading ‘The Digital Universe’ »
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