[phas-dept] Schedule for this week's colloquium speaker

[Carlos Bertulani]

I can take the 2:30 spot if that is OK with you.

I can also take him for lunch. I am not sure yet if I can stay for dinner.

carlos


On 12/4/12 11:58 AM, "Kurtis  Williams" <Kurtis.Williams at tamuc.edu> wrote:

> 
> Dr. Kurtis A. Williams
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> Texas A&M University - Commerce
> Tel: (903) 886-5516
> Kurtis.Williams at tamuc.edu
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Our colloquium speaker this week will be Darren DePoy of A&M - College
> Station.  Dr. DePoy is an instrumentalist who has been instrumental (ha!) in
> designing and building the VIRUS instrument which is able to get spectra of
> every object within nearly one square degree and which will form the heart of
> the HET Dark Energy Experiment.  Dr. DePoy is also working on instrument
> design for the Giant Magellan Telescope, a planned 24.5-meter diameter optical
> telescope of which A&M (including Commerce!) is a partner.
> 
> Dr. DePoy will be arriving Wednesday evening and leaving after dinner on
> Thursday.  Who would like to speak with him, and when? I especially need
> volunteers to take Dr. DePoy to lunch and to talk with him early Thursday
> afternoon when I am teaching.  Cheri, is there a time you could give him a
> planetarium demo?  Would the SPS like to meet with him?
> 
> Schedule to be filled:
> 
> 9:00 Arrive on campus and fill out paperwork
> 9:30 
> 10:00
> 10:30
> 11:00
> 11:30
> 12:00-1:30 Lunch
> 1:30
> 2:00
> 2:30
> 3:00
> 3:15 Meet with SPS (?)
> 3:45 Colloquium setup
> 4-5 Colloquium
> 5:15 Dinner at Lone Star, followed by departure
> 
> 
> 
> Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
> <http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/academics/colleges/scienceEngineeringAgriculture
> /departments/physicsAstronomy/colloquiaSeminars/default.aspx>
> 4-5pm, Thursday, Dec. 6, Science 127 (coffee and cookies served at 3:50pm)
> All students currently enrolled in Phys401 and Phys501 are required to attend
>  
> Precision Cosmology Through Large Surveys
> Prof. Darren DePoy, Texas A&M University
> 
> Prof. Darren DePoy is currently the Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Professor and head of
> the Astronomical Instrumentation Lab in the Physics and Astronomy Department
> at Texas A&M University in College Station. Prof. DePoy received his B.S. in
> Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and his Ph.D.
> in Astronomy from the Univ. of Hawaii in 1987. He has a long history of
> leading instrumentation groups at the US National Observatories, Ohio State,
> and Texas A&M to create new kinds of astronomical instruments for new kinds of
> observations.  For example, DePoy built instruments and helped to organize
> observations for the PLANET project, which involved  observations of planetary
> gravitational microlensing events that have detected some of the most
> solar-system-like planetary systems known. He is the Dark Energy Camera
> Project Scientist and currently works on a range of dark energy measurements.
> More information about Prof. DePoy and his research can be found at
> http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/depoy/
>  
> Abstract:
> The discovery of the acceleration of the Universe and "dark energy" is an
> exciting development in physics. I will describe the evidence for dark energy
> and several projects that seek to better determine key cosmological parameters
> that characterize this mysterious effect. I will concentrate on projects that
> our group is involved with and discuss some exciting future projects as well.
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
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