Dr. Virginia Trimble - Cosmology: Man’s Place in the Universe
A last minute note about a speaker tonight at MSUM. Dr. Virginia Trimble, a prominent astrophysicist who teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Maryland, will present a free public lecture on “Cosmology: Man’s Place in the Universe” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in MSU Moorhead’s Science Lab Building 104.
Her talk will outline what we currently know about the history of the universe and its contents and possible meanings of its evolution. The lecture will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by a free telescope viewing of the night sky, hosted by the FM Astronomy Club, at 8:30 p.m.
It sounds like we will be setting up telescopes in the parking lot off of 7th Ave S. and 11th St S.
See attached pictures for maps of locations or click on the following links.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=msum+moorhead+minnesota&ie=UTF8&ll=46.8676,-96.75995&spn=0.003191,0.008261&t=h&z=18
http://www.mnstate.edu/home/campustour/sciencelab.cfm
A native Californian and graduate of Hollywood High
School, UCLA and the California Institute of Technology, where she earned her doctorate in astronomy, for almost 30 years she’s taught between the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Maryland.
Trimble has spent much of her career observing, thinking about and writing about a wide range of astronomical entities, including white dwarfs, supernovae, neutron stars, binary systems and ways that one might measure the productivity and impact of different kinds of astronomical telescopes. Her current interests include the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies and the universe and of the communities of scientists who study them.