James Ulvestad, Director of the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences, will be speaking at Boston University on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 4:00. The title, "Opportunities and
Challenges in Federal Ground-Based Astronomy." The location is 725
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Room 522. Refreshments will be served prior to the talk at 3:30 in room 502.

Abstract:
In 2010 and 2011, the National Academy of Sciences released its latest decadal surveys in Astronomy and Astrophysics and in Planetary Science. These reports portrayed a vibrant future for U.S. ground- based...

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Douglas Finkbeiner will give a special seminar for the CfA
community on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at 10:00, in the Phillips
Auditorium.  The title of this talk is "New Approaches to Discovering
Dark Matter."

ABSTRACT:

Most of my group's work in recent years has been related to
discovering the nature of dark matter.  Some projects
involve searches for WIMP signals from astrophysical sources or
direct detection experiments.  In other cases, we have studied the
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