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

[Cheri Davis]

Hi Kurtis,

 

Bao-An scheduled planetarium time for him a few weeks ago for 10 am.  If
a change is needed please let me know.

 

Thanks,

 

Cheri

 

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/scienceEngineeringAgric
ulture/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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