Eyes on the Sky 2007

7 pm, Scheduled Thursday and Tuesday Evenings, Feb 15 - May 1, 2007

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland invite students, faculty and science lovers from all walks of life to the third exciting season of Eyes on the Sky. Join us as we continue to decode Einstein's Universe, to understand the evolution and dynamics of the world we inhabit, and to eye ones beyond.

The lectures will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park Physics Lecture Hall 1412.

Physics Building University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Refreshments and informal interaction with speakers will follow the lecture. Appropriate for high school/college level and above.

Upcoming Lecture:

The last lecture "Who Left the Freezer Door Open?" will be given by Robert Bindschadler at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 1. Please note that this lecture will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park Phyiscs Lecture Hall Room 1412.

To download a printable flyer for this event, please click here: Flyer.


Reservations:

Admission is free but on-line reservations are requested to help us plan for the event. Please help us avoid chaos! RSVP at http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/eyesonthesky/rsvp.jsp.

Directions and Parking:

To download Directions and Parking Info click here: Directions & Parking

From Beltway Exit 25 south 1.9 miles on Route 1, right at light on Campus Drive, proceed one long block and bear right at the "BIG M" traffic circle. Lecture Halls are 100 meters on right. For a map, please click here: Event Directions and Garage Parking Map .

Free parking is available **ON ALL FLOORS** of the Regents Drive Garage, across the street from the Physics Lecture Halls. *Please DO NOT* park on metered spots or on spots that say State Vehicle Only. Parking is also available in nearby surface lots that designate free parking after 4:00 PM. For these surface lots, see the interactive parking map of the campus here Alternate Parking

Getting there by Metro:

The Physics department is accessible by metro. Take the green line to College Park Metro Station. Ride the UM Shuttle free to and from campus. Shuttle makes a stop right at the Physics Building and runs every ten minutes before the lecture, every twenty after, till at least midnight.

For UM Shuttle Schedule and Route Map click here: UM SHuttle Schedule and Map

Volunteers Needed:

We are looking for volunteers to help us with spreading the word about the program in the community as well as logistics on the evening of the lectures right before the talk from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. If you would like to get involved with the program, get community service hours, would like a pizza dinner, please contact Lubna Rana at LRana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov as soon as possible.

2007 Eyes on the Sky Colloquium Schedule:

For an abstract of the talk and a brief biographical sketch of the speaker, please click on the speaker's name and lecture title below.

Date Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Thursday, Feb 15 Jim Garvin GSFC From the Moon to Mars and Beyond: Science at the Frontier
Tuesday, Feb 27 Joan Centrella GSFC Cosmic Messengers: Binary Black Holes and Grvitational Waves
March 8 Arlie Petters Duke University Gravity's Cosmic Shadows
March 29 Jim Slavin GSFC Stormy Weather (In Space)
April 12 Doug Hamilton University of Maryland Tilting the Planets
May 1 Robert Bindschadler GSFC Who Left the Freezer Door Open?

2006 Eyes on the Sky Colloquium Schedule:

For an abstract of the talk and a brief biographical sketch of the speaker, please click on the speaker's name and lecture title below.

Date Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Feb 16 Cole Miller UMCP Faster, Denser, Hotter: The Extremes of Neutron Stars
March 2 Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor,
 Freeman Hrabowski		 Authors
  President, UMBC		 The Man Who Did Not Stay Quiet--Einstein, Race and Science
 Beating the Odds
March 16 Jim Smith GSFC NASA's for the Birds--Shades of Audobon
April 6 Kim Weaver GSFC Peering Past Hubble: Revealing the Universe Through Infrared and X-Ray Eyes
April 20 Max Tegmark MIT The History of the Universe in One Hour
May 4 John Mather GSFC The Origins of Everything, As Seen By the James Webb Space Telescope

DVDs for 2005 Eyes on the Sky:

If you are interested in a DVD set for the 2005 Eyes on the Sky series, please contact Lubna Rana at LRana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov. Supply is limited.

Contact Information:

For questions, contact us by phone at 301-286-2893/ 9690 or via e-mail at LRana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Sign Language Interpreter Request:

To request a sign language interpreter, please send an email request to Lubna Rana at lrana@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov. Goddard employees should call 301-286-8313.

Webmaster: Lubna Rana