Past Public Lectures
Fall 2012 Russell Frank Astronomy Public Lecture:
“Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool Stars”
California Institute of Technology
7:30pm Thursday September 27
BPB 102
Fall 2011:
Thu Dec 1, 7:30pm, BPB 102
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: “A Scientific Revolution: the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes”
Spring 2011:
Robert K. Weiss (President, X-Prize Foundation)
"Encouraging & Supporting Innovation through Competition"
1:30pm, Fri May 6, 2011 at BPB-102
Prof. Doug Lin (UC Santa Cruz / KIAA)
“The Search for Planets and Life Beyond the Solar System”
7pm, Thu March 10, 2011
Barrick Auditorium, UNLV
Spring 2010:
Apr 7: Dr. Raja Guhathakurta (UCO / Lick Observatory)
(this lecture is given as part of the University Forum)
2009: International Year of Astronomy
Fall 2009:
Sep 9: Prof. George Rhee (UNLV)
Oct 22: Prof. Roger Blandford (Stanford Univ.)
“Black Holes: End of Time or a New Beginning”
7:30pm, BPB-102 [Slide]
Nov 18: Dr. Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute)
“Hubble’s Top Scientific Discoveries”
7:30pm, Barrick Museum Auditorium
Spring 2009:
Feb 18: Prof. James Stone (Princeton Univ.)
“From Accreting Black Holes to Merging Galaxies: using computers to study astrophysics” [Slide]
Mar 18: Prof. Stephen Lepp (UNLV)
“Exploding Stars: The Secrets of Supernovae” [Slide]
Apr 15: Prof. Bing Zhang (UNLV)
“Gamma Ray Bursts: The Most Violent Explosions in the Universe”
