Aug 19: The Sun, the Stars and the IfA

SPECIAL INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY LECTURE

The Sun, the Stars and the IfA

by IfA Director Dr. Rolf Peter Kudritzki
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IfA Auditorium - Manoa

7:00 pm August 19, 2009

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2009 is an extraordinary year! Four hundred years after the first scientific study of the sky with a telescope by Galileo, a cultural and scientific milestone, which changed the thinking of humans in a fundamental way- two new revolutionary telescope projects will move forward in Hawaii, the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) on Haleakala and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea. The talk will inform about the two projects and their key science goals. It will also describe the science which will occur with the TMT.

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FREE ADMISSION

PARKING:
Free parking readily available in the IfA parking lot
at 2680 Woodlawn Drive.