2015 Bok Lecturer

Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution

One of the most important scientific challenges in early eighteenth-century Europe was the search for a reliable way to determine longitude at sea. Using a free interactive program called “WorldWide Telescope,” Alyssa Goodman will demonstrate how various historic and modern systems for measuring longitude at sea work (or fail to work), highlighting key life-saving...

Shedding light on red dwarf stars: Fundamental observations of our nearest stellar neighbors.

Thesis presentations by our Senior Concentrators. 

Monday, Dec 8th 1:00 – 4:00pm, Philips Auditorium

1:00 – 1:05pm Welcome

1:05 Tom Leith The Origins of Planetary-Mass Companions: Simulating Dynamical
Observations of FW Tau C/b
1:20 Chris Merchantz Finding the Building Blocks of Life: Searching for the Rotational
Spectrum of the Hydroxymethyl Radical
1:35 Sophie Welsh Exoplanet Follow-up Techniques
1:50 Henri Garrison-Desany Beyond the Binaries: Cataloging and Analyzing Variance of Field
Stars in the MEarth Transit Survey
2:05 Cecilia Sanders When Planets Breathe: Searching for Biomarkers in Exoplanet
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