:: 2010 / 2011 Season ::

coordinated by Jim Baer/Alex Harwit

Our current schedule for the 2010/2011 season meetings and invited speakers is as follows:


2010:

Sep. 16: Dr. Richard N. Youngworth, Light Capture, Inc., "Cost-Based Tolerancing in Optical Systems."

Oct. 21: Dr. Charley Noecker, Ball Aerospace, "Imaging distant worlds with opaque optics, or How to find Pandora using xenon and garbage bags."

Nov. 18: Matthew Beasley, University of Colorado, "Colorado High-Resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph (CHESS), a new ultraviolet sounding rocket payload."

Dec. 16: Holiday Meeting/seminar Dr. Jason Glenn, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Colorado; Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, "Observing Distant Galaxies with the Herschel Space Observatory and New Submillimeter Detector Technology."

2011:

Jan. 20: Dr. Dan Friedman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "Multijunction cells for concentrator photovoltaics."

Feb. 17: Dr. Charles Pellerin, "How I launched Hubble into space with a flawed mirror."

Mar. 17: Dr. Jun Ye, "A strongly interacting lattice atomic clock - Suppression of collisional frequency shift."

Apr. 21: Several senior students from Colordo School of Mines will each present short talks on their current research.

May 19: Dr. Dennis Ebbets, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., "The Hubble Space Telescope."

If you have suggestions for the 2010/2011 season speakers or topics, please contact Jim Baer.