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

Tue Dec 4 12:11:03 CST 2012

I’m going to have to pass on lunch since we are having the CoSEA Holiday reception that afternoon.

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College of Science, Engineering & Agriculture (CoSEA)
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
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From: phas-dept-bounces at tamuc.edu [mailto:phas-dept-bounces at tamuc.edu] On Behalf Of Kurtis Williams
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Physics & Astronomy Department
Cc: Andrew Dahir
Subject: [phas-dept] Schedule for this week's colloquium speaker

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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