"Astronomical Horizons" Public Lecture Series Schedule 2016-2017

This lecture series held at the Abrams Planetarium surveys the latest developments in astronomy. Astronomical Horizons is offered by the Department of Physics and Astronomy through its Astronomy & Astrophysics group and Abrams Planetarium. Each talk begins at 7:30 p.m. and there is no charge for admission.

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• September 22, 2016 "Connecting the First Stars to the Milky Way"
  Brian O'Shea, Associate Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Graduate Director, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering

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• October 20, 2016 "Sample Return from Asteroids and Mars: Promise, Progress and Prospects"
  Michael Velbel, Professor, Geological Sciences

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• November 17, 2016 "Radiation from the Big Bang — What We Learned About the Birth of the Universe Since the Discovery of the Radiation 50 Years Ago"
  Ed Loh, Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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• January 19, 2017 "Do Black Holes Merge in Globular Clusters?"
  Steve Zepf, Professor and Associate Chair for Astronomy & Astrophysics

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• February 16, 2017 "The Great American Eclipse: Getting Ready for August 2017"
  Shannon Schmoll, Director, Abrams Planetarium

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• March 16, 2017 "Dark Matter and Beyond: The Future of the Large Hadron Collider"
  Reinhard Schweinhorst, Associate Professor, Experimental High Energy Physics

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• April 20, 2017 "A Human Expedition to Mars: Why It Is So Difficult and What We Are Doing About It"
  Steve Kozlowski, Professor, Psychology

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