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These presentations are hosted by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and are funded largely by the Ronald M. and Susan J. Friedman Outreach Fund in Astronomy. Friedman is a member of the department's Board of Visitors.
If you would like to suggest a speaker, you may send an email to rcm242@psu.edu.
Date | Name | Institution | Presentation |
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4/9/2019 | Randy McEntaffer | Penn State University | Watch: The Penn State NASA Suborbital Rocket Program for Astronomy |
4/10/2018 | Joseph Masiero | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Watch: You Can't Make a Solar System Without Breaking a Few Asteroids |
3/28/2017 | Pamela Gay | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Download: Cosmoquest: You Can Help Discover Our Universe |
11/10/2016 | Catherine Grier | Penn State University | The Monsters of the Universe: Supermassive Black Holes and their Masses |
4/28/2016 | Chad Hanna | Penn State University | The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
12/1/2015 | Jason Wright | Penn State University | Watch: Searching for Alien Megastructures: Hype vs. Reality |
4/28/2015 | Mike Brown | Caltech |
Watch: Tales from the Outer Solar System |
10/30/2014 | Ravi Kopparapu | Penn State University | Potential Habitable Worlds: How Common Are They? |
10/22/2013 | Brendan Mullan | Penn State University | Everything in the Universe is Terrible. Here's Why That's Awesome. |
4/9/2013 | Jill Tarter | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute | Watch: Are We Alone? |
9/13/2012 | Heidi Hammel | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) | Watch: James Webb Space Telescope: NASA's Next Great Observatory |
5/18/2011 | Karl Gebhardt | University of Texas in Austin | Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe |
10/27/2010 | John Grunsfeld | Space Telescope Science Institute | A Hubble Story |
4/14/2007 | Carl Herrmann | Johns Hopkins University | Fire and Ice: Exploration of the Solar System |
11/7/2006 | Mercedes Richards, Darren Williams, Avi Mandell, Christopher Palma |
Penn State University | What is a Planet, Why not Pluto? |
11/20/2005 | John Nousek, David Burrows, Margaret Chester | Penn State University | Penn State in Space, The Swift Experience |
4/6/2005 | Max Tegmark | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Parallel Universes |
2/26/2005 | Eric Feigelson | Penn State University | Planets, Planets, Everywhere |
11/20/2003 | Christopher Palma | Penn State University | Galactic Cannibals |
3/27/2003 | Mario Livio | Space Telescope Science Institute | Beauty in an Accelerating Universe |
11/21/2002 | Michael Weinstein | Penn State University | Highlights from Hubble |
4/7/2002 | Lawrence Krauss | Case Western Reserve University | The Physics of Star Trek |
2/24/2002 | Michael Eracleous | Penn State University | Can a Bright Star Find Happiness in the Deadly Embrace of a Black Hole? |
11/11/2001 | Pablo Laguna | Penn State University | When Black Holes Collide |
10/21/2001 | Marc Millis | NASA Glenn Research Center | The Drive for Interstellar Travel |
7/14/2001 | Frank Drake | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life |
4/28/2001 | Chuck Higgins | Penn State University | Parade of the Planets: Past, Present and Future |
3/24/2001 | Chris Churchill | Penn State University | From Stardust to Dinosaurs to Footprints on the Moon to Stardust Again |
2/25/2001 | Jane Charlton | Penn State University | A Brief History of the Universe |
11/12/2000 | Michael Weinstein | Penn State University | Was There a Big Bang? |
10/14/2000 | Charles Beichman | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA's Search for Life |
7/14/2000 | Eric Feigelson | Penn State University | How to Make a Star |
4/25/2000 | John Nousek | Penn State University | Chasing Fireworks Across the Gamma-ray Sky: the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer |
3/19/2000 | Niel Brandt | Penn State University | X-raying the Environments of Supermassive Black Holes |
12/5/1999 | Gordon Garmire | Penn State University | Black Holes, Stellar Explosions, and Stellar Birth: Exploring the X-ray Universe with the Chandra X-ray Observatory |
10/24/1999 | David J. Helfand | Columbia University | How Superman Sees the Stars |
7/9/1999 | Darren Williams | Penn State University | Habitable Planets |
4/25/1999 | Daniel Weedman | Penn State University | NASA's Origins Program: Seeking Other Earths |
2/28/1999 | Alexander Wolszczan | Penn State University | The First Extrasolar Planets: Behind the Scenes of Discovery |
11/22/1998 | Lawrence Ramsey | Penn State University | Searching for Extra-Solar-System Planets: The Role of the New Generation of Large Ground-Based Telescopes |
9/27/1998 | Steven Squyres | Cornell University | Exploration of Mars |