Astronomy night and public talk next Tuesday

Heinrich Paes, one of our Physics professors, is giving a public talk next Tuesday tonight, which will lead into the telescope observing session run by Phil Hardee (another Physics professor).

Public talks are just what they sound like - cool cutting-edge physics presented at a very general lay-person level, no real physics background required. Public nights involve anyone who shows up getting to observe through our monstrous telescope on the roof of Gallalee. Weather permitting on the latter.

Here are the specifics:

Tuesday, 27 March

"Traveling Back in Time with Neutrinos in Extra Dimensions"
--- Heinrich Paes
--- 7:30pm in 227 Gallalee

Observing session - the Moon, Saturn
--- Phil Hardee
--- 8:00pm - Gallalee roof

Even more details here and here, with listings for future events.

The telescope we have is very impressive, and Prof. Paes is our newest faculty members doing very cool theoretical high energy and astroparticle physics. Supersymmetry, extra dimensions, time travel, cosmology, the fate of the universe ... really fundamental stuff, with profound philosophical implications.

So the whole thing has a very high "neat" factor, you should go.