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This lecture series held at the Abrams
Planetarium surveys the latest developments in astronomy. Astronomical
Horizons is offered by the Department of Physics and Astronomy through
its astronomy group and Abrams Planetarium. Each talk begins and
7:30 p.m. and there is no charge for admission.
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September 20, 2007: "Space Astronomy:
Fifty Years After Sputnik" Horace Smith, professor
of physics and astronomy. |
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October 18, 2007: "Chasing the Brightest
Explosions in the Universe: Gamma-ray Bursts" Ed Brown,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy. |
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November 15, 2007: "Tales from the Many
Tails of Comets" Arunav Kundu, research assistant professor
and assistant professor of physics and astronomy. |
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January 17, 2008: "Red and Dead? : The
Strange Lives of Elliptical Galaxies" Megan Donahue,
associate professor of physics and astronomy. |
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February 21, 2008: "Galactic Ecology"
Mark Voit, associate professor of physics and astronomy. |
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March 20, 2008: "What's New about Planets
around other Stars" Stephen Zepf, professor of physics
and astronomy. |
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April 17, 2008: "When the Sun swallows
the Earth (and other impending astronomical catastrophes)"
Jack Baldwin, professor of physics and astronomy. |
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