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--Apple-Mail-148--654623790 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The October meeting of the Halifax Centre of the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) will be held Friday, October 19th at 8:00 PM in Room L176 of the Loyola Building at Saint Mary's University. (A map can be found at the Centre's web site; see below.) Members of the public are welcome. Attendance is free. This meeting will feature: "Galaxies: Structure Formation in the Universe from First Light to Redshift Zero" by Dr. Marcin Sawicki Superficially, galaxies appear as spectacular but static agglomerations of stars. However, in addition to stars, they contain gas, dust, and dark matter - all vital ingredients that govern these ever-changing systems. Moreover, in addition to being interesting in and of themselves, galaxies can teach us a lot about how structure at all levels formed in the Universe. I will talk about what we know about galaxies today, where we think they came from, and what we hope to learn about them in the coming decade of powerful new super-telescopes. Marcin Sawicki studies the formation and evolution of galaxies at epochs when the Universe was only a fraction of its present age. He is particularly interested in where and when the Universe made its stars and the complex chemical elements that we are all made of. In his work Marcin uses space-based facilities including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as ground-based ones such as the Gemini, Keck, and Magellan telescopes. When not studying distant galaxies, Marcin hikes (slowly), sails (obsessively), and plays Japanese taiko drums (loudly). Marcin has obtained his BSc at McMaster University in Hamilton and his MSc and PhD at the University of Toronto. He then held an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Caltech, was a Plaskett Fellow at the National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria and, most recently, a Research Physicist at University of California at Santa Barbara. He is now an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics at St Mary's University in Halifax, and also holds a Space Science Fellowship from the Canadian Space Agency. For additional information about the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, visit our web site: National: http://www.rasc.ca Halifax Centre: http://halifax.rasc.ca ======================================================================== == Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == --Apple-Mail-148--654623790 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII The October meeting of the Halifax Centre of the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) will be held Friday, October 19th at 8:00 PM in Room L176 of the Loyola Building at Saint Mary's University. (A map can be found at the Centre's web site; see below.) Members of the public are welcome. Attendance is free. This meeting will feature: "Galaxies: Structure Formation in the Universe from First Light to Redshift Zero" by Dr. Marcin Sawicki Superficially, galaxies appear as spectacular but static agglomerations of stars. However, in addition to stars, they contain gas, dust, and dark matter - all vital ingredients that govern these ever-changing systems. Moreover, in addition to being interesting in and of themselves, galaxies can teach us a lot about how structure at all levels formed in the Universe. I will talk about what we know about galaxies today, where we think they came from, and what we hope to learn about them in the coming decade of powerful new super-telescopes. Marcin Sawicki studies the formation and evolution of galaxies at epochs when the Universe was only a fraction of its present age. He is particularly interested in where and when the Universe made its stars and the complex chemical elements that we are all made of. In his work Marcin uses space-based facilities including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as ground-based ones such as the Gemini, Keck, and Magellan telescopes. When not studying distant galaxies, Marcin hikes (slowly), sails (obsessively), and plays Japanese taiko drums (loudly). Marcin has obtained his BSc at McMaster University in Hamilton and his MSc and PhD at the University of Toronto. He then held an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Caltech, was a Plaskett Fellow at the National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria and, most recently, a Research Physicist at University of California at Santa Barbara. He is now an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics at St Mary's University in Halifax, and also holds a Space Science Fellowship from the Canadian Space Agency. For additional information about the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, visit our web site: National: http://www.rasc.ca Halifax Centre: http://halifax.rasc.ca <fontfamily><param>Courier</param> ========================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ========================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ========================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ========================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ========================================================================== </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-148--654623790--
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