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"The Herschel Space Observatory - The Most Sensitive View of the Coolest Stuff (Literally)"

Speaker: Paul Harvey, University of Texas at Austin
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Time: 7:00 p.m. Refreshments - 7:30 p.m. Seminar
Where: Room 340, Koelbel Building, Leeds School of Business on the CU Boulder Campus.
Parking: Parking on Regent Dr. is free in metered spaces after 5 p.m.; the entire lot in front of Koelbel is available to the public for a small fee ($3) payable at either of the two pay stations inside the lot.
Map to Venue: http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=KOBL

Abstract:
The European Space Agency, with substantial help from NASA in many areas, is operating a 3.5 meter diameter telescope in space to study the coldest gas and dust in the universe. The telescope operates in the far-infrared/sub-millimeter part of the electromagnetic spectrum with both imagers and spectrometers. I will describe the observatory, a bit about the instruments, and several scientific investigations that I am leading or a part of. This research concentrates on dust and gas around young stars, in particular those that appear to be surrounded by disks that are likely places for formation of planetary systems.

Bio:
Paul Harvey built his own telescope in junior high and later earned his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Wesleyan University and the California Institute of Technology, respectively. His dissertation focused on astronomical observing and instrumentation. Paul's interests in astronomy center around instruments that work in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some of these are now part of space missions, such as the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel. For Spitzer, Paul was a leading co-investigator in a major project to observe star-forming regions. He has also constructed spectrographs for use at McDonald Observatory and at observatories on Hawaii's Mauna Kea. Paul is currently a mission scientist for the Herschel Observatory and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Astronomy where he has a full time research career. He conducts research in the areas of Infrared Astronomy, Instrumentation, and Star Formation. He has instructed in numerous courses and seminars with titles including: Introduction to Astronomy, Seminar in Interstellar Matter, Extraterrestrial Life, Astronomical Observations, and Astronomical Instrumentation.

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