EVAC Monthly Meeting
Speaker Schedule for 2009
January 16th - Dr. Nat White, a retired Adjunct Astronomer from
Lowell Observatory will talk about the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer.
Background Info
February 20th - Dr. Frank Timmes of the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
will talk about White Dwarf Supernova: Dark Energy and Astrobiology Implications.
Background Info
March 20th - Dr. Kim Hermann will talk about "Probing Spiral Galaxies with Planetary Nebula".
Background Info
April 17th - Steve Desch - Cryovolcanism on Kuiper Belt Objects
Background Info
May 15th - Jack Farmer - Astrobiology
Background Info
June 19th - Ted Dunham - The Kepler Mission
Background Info
July 17th - Paul Scowen - The Star Formation Camera
Background Info
August 21st - David Williams - Water, Ice, and Methane Everywhere - Latest Results from NASA's Planetary Missions
Background Info
September 18th - Henry DeJonge - Gravitational Lensing-Einstein’s Telescope
Background Info:
Henry De Jonge is currently a semiconductor equipment sales director, having been in the high tech industry since 1980 where
he started as a semiconductor engineer. He has a BS in Mathematics, an MBA, and an MS in Astronomy from Swinburne University of Technology. He has been interested in astronomy since childhood and has
also studied astronomy as both an undergraduate and a graduate student at ASU. He particularly enjoys studying
galaxies, black holes, cosmology, and archeoastronomy. He is an avid Arizona and Grand Canyon hiker. He gazes at the heavens with the naked
eye and binoculars, and is currently saving up for a telescope. Henry is a member of the Gilbert Rotary Centennial Observatory staff and is a regular contributor to The Observer.
Henry will discuss gravitational lensing, (or Einstein’s Telescope). This will look what a gravitational lens is and its role in helping us to understand dark matter, dark energy, black holes, cosmology, and extra solar planets.
October 23rd - Heather Marshall - Progress on the Discovery Channel Telescope
November 20th - Renu Malhotra - Migrating Planets
Background Info
December 18th-
Holiday
Party
Details to follow...
Meeting
Site Map
Southeast Regional Library
775 N. Greenfield Road in Gilbert
Pre-Meeting Dinner Map
Old Country Buffet 1855 S.
Stapley Drive in Mesa
The red block in the center is the restaurant and
the red block to the right is the library.
All monthly meetings are held on the
third Friday of the month at the Southeast Regional Library in Gilbert, beginning at 7:30 PM unless noted otherwise.
Monthly reminders will continue
to be emailed via EVAC NEWS
