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<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="background-color:transparent">All students in Physics and Astronomy,</span></font></font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="background-color:transparent">We will have two guest speakers on this Thursday at 4 PM (auditorium) and 6 PM (planetarium).</span></font></font></pre>
<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="background-color:transparent">They are experts in Astronomy on LIGO and </span></font></font><font face="Arial" size="2">exoplanets.</font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Arial" size="2">Both advertisements are below. one at 4 PM, the other at 6 PM.</font></pre>
<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Arial" size="2">Dinner will be 7:30 PM.</font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Arial" size="2">If you want to meet them in dinner, please email me.</font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="6" color="#C00000"><span style="font-size:28pt; background-color:transparent"><b>Fall 2017 Colloquium</b></span></font></span></font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="4" color="#C00000"><span style="font-size:16pt; background-color:transparent"><b>Nov 9, Thursday, 4-5 PM in Science Building 127</b></span></font></span></font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="5" color="#00B050"><span style="font-size:18pt; background-color:transparent"><b>Astronomy</b></span></font></span></font></pre>
<pre align="center" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size:18pt; background-color:transparent"><b>First observation of gravitational waves and light from a double neutron star merger</b></span></font><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size:18pt; background-color:transparent"><b>
</b></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt; background-color:transparent"><b>Dr. Alessandra Corsi</b></span></font></span></font></pre>
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<pre align="center" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); text-align:center; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Yk_k1TZNpIlfKy8824tidYADHtJoXRpXZWSYTgudfa061tWykhXq6j7sru95y2FTq2Iqf4SDdJgl7H3sFwB5CXr575kACGeoTW2nL5KVHcZVkMOT0gFIDwkVWQ-r3YWM4MDI5_RT" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-width:0px" height="232" width="165" border="1"></span></font></pre>
<pre align="justify" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dr. Alessandra Corsi received her Laurea in Physics in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2007 from the University of Rome Sapienza. She carried out post-doctoral research at various institutions including the Pennsylvania State University and the California Institute of Technology. Since 2014 she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on time-domain astronomy, with emphasis on relativistic transients and gravitational wave physics. In 2015 she received an NSF CAREER award titled “CAREER: Radio and gravitational-wave emission from the largest explosions since the Big Bang”. </span></font><font face="Cambria">More information about Dr. Corsi can be found at </font><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.depts.ttu.edu_phas_People_Faculty_bio-5Fcorsi_bio-5Fcorsi.php&d=DwMF-g&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=8nk1hD8du1GXOIPD_1NQdcXdm8dkzIwTVYAqRxLox3o&s=Clnp3sHj5Kt8aY7qUxYdBVqF3MWhAhMYS8cDe5YTU9Y&e=" target="_blank"><font face="Cambria" color="#1155CC"><u>http://www.depts.ttu.edu/phas/People/Faculty/bio_corsi/bio_corsi.php</u></font></a></span></font></pre>
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<pre align="justify" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">When a pair of superdense neutron stars collided in a galaxy 130 million light-years from Earth, an event dubbed GW170817, they unleashed not only a train of gravitational waves but also photons at all wavelengths, including an ongoing torrent of radio waves. In this talk, I will review the fantastic story of GW170817, emphasizing the observations carried out in radio with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. I will conclude highlighting the impact that this discovery has on the future of multi-messenger astronomy.</span></font></span></font></pre>
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<pre align="justify" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:rgb(0,0,0); margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; background-color:white"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#C00000"><span style="font-size: 37px;"><b>Special Planetarium Talk</b></span></font><br></div><pre align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Department of Physics & Astronomy</b></span></font></span></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><font size="4" color="#C00000"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Nov 9, Thursday, 6-7 PM in the Planetarium</b></span></font></span></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Planetarium opens 5:30pm)</span></font></span></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Dangerous Worlds</b></span></font><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Dr. Elizabeth Tasker</b></span></font></span></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency </b></span></font></span></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Times New Roman"><img height="500" width="500" style="max-width: 100%; height: 250px; width: 250px;" originalwidth="500" originalheight="500" rszimgcmd="50"></font></pre><pre align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">
</font></font></pre><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><font size="4">We thought the planets of our Solar System were weird worlds, until we began to see the lands harboured by our neighbouring stars. Huge Jupiters snuggle so close to their star that years last days. Planets are resurrected around stars that have long been dead. Other worlds begin their nights with dual sunsets like Star Wars' Tatooine or drown in global oceans or seas of tar. Let’s visit worlds more extreme than anything in fiction and ask if any could be called home.</font><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#C00000"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><font size="4">Elizabeth Tasker is an associate professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo. Her research explores the formation of stars and planets using computer simulations to follow their evolution. She is originally from the UK, where she studied theoretical physics at Durham University and went on to gain her doctorate in astrophysics at the University of Oxford. She then went across the pond to build virtual universes as a postdoctoral fellow in the USA and Canada, before moving to Japan in 2011. Her book on exoplanets, ‘The Planet Factory’, was published by Bloomsbury on November 7.</font></div></pre>
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