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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>World renowned astronomer and </span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>astrophysicist<span
style='color:black'> Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell will visit Texas A&M
University-Commerce, February 28 through March 4, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr<span
style='color:black'>. Jocelyn Bell Burnell</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> (</span></span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell</span></a>)<span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> is </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>best known for
the discovery of pulsars (rotating neutron stars) in 1967 when she was a
graduate student at </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>the University of Cambridge </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>in UK – work for
which her thesis supervisor </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. Antony Hewish </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>was awarded a
Nobel Prize in 1974. The discovery, considered as </span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>the greatest
astronomical discovery of the twentieth century by many people, </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>has
changed our understanding of stellar evolution and the fundamental make up of
matter at extremely high densities. </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. Bell </span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Burnell is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of
Sciences. She has been President of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society and has
just completed her term as (the first female) President of the UK/Ireland
Institute of Physics. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University
of Oxford and Mansfield College Oxford. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>Dr. Bell Burnell will be speaking to several groups during her
stay. The public is welcome to attend each of these events free of
charge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Monday,
Feb. 28 from 7:30-8:30 pm</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> in the Planetarium Science Building
room 125, Dr</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'> Bell Burnell will give a talk on <b><i>Astronomy and Poetry</i></b></span><b><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>. </span></i></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The talk will be
hosted by Dr. Kathryn Jacobs, Professor of English.<b><i> </i></b><em><span
style='color:black;font-style:normal'>As a hobby Dr. Jocelyn Bell
Burnell collects poetry with space or astronomy themes, she has </span></em></span><em><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal'>recently
co-edited an anthology of poetry with an astronomical theme – ‘Dark Matter,
Poems of Space’. During this talk she will be presenting poetry under the
starry skies of the planetarium.</span></em><em><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tuesday, March 1
from 11:00am-12:00 noon </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>in</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Innovations A of
the Sam Rayburn Student Center, <span style='color:black'>Dr. Bell Burnell will
have </span><b><i>Discussions with female faculty and students</i></b></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The event is organized by Dr. Mary Hendrix, Vice
President for Student Access and Success.<span style='color:black'> Dr. Bell </span>Burnell</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'> is interested in women’s studies. She hopes
that her presence as a senior woman in science will encourage more women to
consider a career in science. “Dr. Bell Burnell will serve as a tremendous
inspiration to our youngsters thinking of entering science and a great
motivation for those still uncertain”, said Dr. Allan Headley, Dean of the
Graduate School and Research. </span><span lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>Tuesday, March 1 from 7:20-8:20 pm</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> in
room 214 of the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Distance
Education Center in the <span style='color:black'>Agriculture-Industry
Technology building, Dr. Bell Burnell will give a talk on <b><i>A Reflection on
the discovery of pulsars</i></b><i> </i>to the graduate class Physics 561:
Astronomy Problems.</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>The lecture is
delivered via two-way video to TAMU-Commerce Metroplex Center at 2600 Motley
Drive, Mesquite, Texas 75150. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'> <br>
<b>Wednesday, March 2 from 4-5 pm</b> in Science Building room 127, Dr</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>.</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>
Bell Burnell will give a talk on <b><i>Will the world end in 2012? The
astronomical evidence</i></b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This talk will
be hosted by Dr. Kent Montgomery, Director of the Planetarium. <span
style='color:red'>A reception in her honor will be held from 3:30-4:00pm in the
lobby of the Planetarium, everyone is invited. </span><em><span
style='color:black;font-style:normal'>What's all this about the end of the
world in 2012? Just what is meant to happen, and how likely is it to happen?
This talk examines the threats from space and explains how much truth there is
in the suggestions that killer asteroids, lethal solar flares or the black hole
at the center of the Milky Way (for example) could cause the end of the Earth.</span></em><i><span
style='color:black'><br>
</span></i><span style='color:black'> <br>
<b>Thursday, March 3 from 4-5 pm</b> in Science Building room 127, Dr. Bell
Burnell will give a physics and astronomy colloquium on <b><i>Pulsars and
extreme phys</i></b></span><b><i>ics</i></b>.<span style='color:black'> <em><span
style='font-style:normal'>This is an overview of the current state of our
knowledge about Pulsars.</span></em></span><em><span style='color:#1F497D;
font-style:normal'> </span></em><em><span style='font-style:normal'>The
colloquium will be hosted by Dr. William G. Newton, a nuclear astrophysicist. </span></em></span><em><span
style='font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>UK
and US universities and learned bodies have presented Dr. Bell with many awards
including the 2010 Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of London, </span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>the
Albert Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the J. Robert
Oppenheimer Memorial Prize of the Center for Theoretical Studies in Miami, the
Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize of the American Astronomical<u> </u>Society and the
Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Bell Burnell
received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) from Queen
Elizabeth II </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>i</span><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>n 1999
and was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in
June 2007. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For
more information, please contact Dr. Bao-An Li, Head and Professor, Department
of Physics and Astronomy, email: </span><a
href="mailto:Bao-An_Li@Tamu-Commerce.edu"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bao-An_Li@Tamu-Commerce.edu</span></a><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> or Phone: (903)
886-5478.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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