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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'>I can take the 2:30 spot if that is OK with you.<BR>
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I can also take him for lunch. I am not sure yet if I can stay for dinner.<BR>
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carlos<BR>
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On 12/4/12 11:58 AM, "Kurtis Williams" <Kurtis.Williams@tamuc.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Dr. Kurtis A. Williams<BR>
Assistant Professor<BR>
Department of Physics and Astronomy<BR>
Texas A&M University - Commerce<BR>
Tel: (903) 886-5516<BR>
Kurtis.Williams@tamuc.edu<BR>
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Hi everyone,<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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?<BR>
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Schedule to be filled:<BR>
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9:00 Arrive on campus and fill out paperwork<BR>
9:30 <BR>
10:00<BR>
10:30<BR>
11:00<BR>
11:30<BR>
12:00-1:30 Lunch<BR>
1:30<BR>
2:00<BR>
2:30<BR>
3:00<BR>
3:15 Meet with SPS (?)<BR>
3:45 Colloquium setup<BR>
4-5 Colloquium<BR>
5:15 Dinner at Lone Star, followed by departure<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:24pt'><B>Physics and Astronomy Colloquium <a href="http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/academics/colleges/scienceEngineeringAgriculture/departments/physicsAstronomy/colloquiaSeminars/default.aspx"><http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/academics/colleges/scienceEngineeringAgriculture/departments/physicsAstronomy/colloquiaSeminars/default.aspx></a> <BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>4-5pm, Thursday, Dec. 6, Science 127 (coffee and cookies served at 3:50pm)<BR>
All students currently enrolled in Phys401 and Phys501 are required to attend<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:24pt'><B>Precision Cosmology Through Large Surveys<BR>
Prof. Darren DePoy, Texas A&M University</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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 <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/depoy/">http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/depoy/</a><BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B><I>Abstract:<BR>
</I></B>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.<BR>
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