AstroTerps

Events

Events for Spring 2015

• Feb 11: Brian Morsony, "Gamma-Ray Bursts and Jet-Powered Supernovae"
• Mar 11: Dennis Bodewits, title TBA
• Mar 25: Doug Hamilton, title TBA
• Apr 1: Mike Boylan-Kolchin, title TBA
• Apr 8: Preparations for Maryland Day
• Apr 22: Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez, title TBA
• Apr 29: Karl Hille, title TBA
• May 6: Undergraduate research mini-talks
• May 13: Silvia Protopapa, title TBA

Events for Fall 2014

• Sep 10: First meeting of the year.
• Sep 17: Laura Blecha, "Colliding Galaxies and Monster Black Holes"
• Sep 24: Peter Polko, "Plasma, magnetic fields, and black holes: a powerful concoction"
• Oct 1: Christine Hartzell, title TBA
• Oct 8: COSMOS
• Oct 22: Derek Richardson, "What's it like to walk on an asteroid?"
• Oct 29: Katie Jameson and Ashlee Wilkins, "The First Year of GRAD-MAP"
• Nov 12: Suvi Gezari, title TBA
• Dec 3: Mark Lewis, title TBA

Previous Events

Events for Spring 2014

• Every Wednesday at 6: General Astroterps meetings in the astronomy library in CSS1255
• Mar 9: The return of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey! Details about a club viewing coming soon!
• Mar 12: A presentation by guest speaker Professor Massimo Riccotti
• Apr 16: Join us for several presentations from undergradate researchers!
• Apr 23: A presentation by guest speaker Maggie McAdam
• Apr 30: A presentation by guest speaker Professor Mike Boylan-Kolchin
• May 7: A presentation by guest speaker Professor Jessica Sunshine

Events for Fall 2013

• Sep 18: First meeting at 6PM in CSS1255: "Neutron Stars and Flaming Death" by guest speaker Professor Cole Miller
• Sep 25: "Galactic Winds" by guest speaker Professor Sylvain Veilleux
• Oct 2: Join us in watching an episode of "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" and cookies at 6 pm!
• Oct 23: A presentation by the Astronomy Gentleladies Network
• Nov 6: A talk on Space Battles by Qian Wang
• Nov 13: A presentation by guest speaker Professor Doug Hamilton
• Nov 20: A presentation by guest speaker Professor Peter Shawhan on his research on gravitational waves.
• Dec 4: A presentation by guest speaker Anne Lohfink
• Dec 11: A presentation by guest speaker Ranjan Vasudevan

Events for Spring 2013

• Jan 30: First meeting at 6PM in CSS1255
• Feb 6: "A Planet So Hellish That it Darkens Its Star: HAT-P-7b" by guest speaker Brett Morris
• Feb 20: Stargazing Educational Outreach Event at Brandywine Elementary School
• Mar 27: "Gravitational Waves: What will they REALLY tell us?" by guest speaker Mark Avara.
• Apr 3: "The Environmental Impact of Black Holes" by guest speaker Professor Chris Reynolds
• Apr 10: "Seeing Galaxies Through the Forest: Spectral Stacking of Damped Lyman alpha Systems" by Steffi Yen
• Apr 17: "Getting to Know Our (Galactic) Neighbors: Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds" by guest speaker Katie Jameson
• Apr 24: "Molecules and Dust...in Space!" by guest speaker Shaye Storm
• Apr 27: Maryland Day!
• May 1: "How to Capture an Asteroid" by guest speaker Professor Derek Richardson

Events for Fall 2012

• Sep 12: First general meeting at 6PM in CSS1255
• Oct 3: "Flares from Dormant Beasts: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes" by guest speaker Professor Suvi Gezari
• Oct 17: "Undergraduate Research Presentations" by Harley Katz and Scott Sullivan.
• Oct 24: "The Search for Life" by guest speaker Dr. Geronimo Villanueva.
• Nov 7: "The University of Maryland's Neutral Buoyancy Facility (plus tour!)" by Space Systems Lab Director Dave Akin.
• Nov 14: "Moons and Rings" by guest speaker Professor Doug Hamilton.
• Nov 15: "Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission" by CMNS guest speaker Professor Steven Squyres from Cornell University. *** Special meeting time/location ***: PHYS1412 at 4PM.
• Nov 21: "The New Frontier of Super-Earths" by guest speaker Jonathon Fraine.
• Nov 27: CMNS guest colloquium by Nobel laureate Dr. Adam Riess. *** Special meeting time/location ***: PHYS1410 at 4PM.
• Nov 28: "Journey to the center of the ERF: Planetary cores, accretion disks, and "helioseismology" in the lab" by guest speaker Dr. Dan Zimmerman.
• Dec 5: "The wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, gravitationally lensed universe" by guest speaker Alice Olmstead, *** and also *** club elections for President will be held.

Events for Spring 2012

• Feb 1: First meeting of the spring semester! "The LUX Dark Matter Experiment" by guest speaker Professor Carter Hall.
• Feb 8: "Weak Forces on Small Bodies in the Solar System" by guest speaker Professor Derek Richardson
• Feb 15: Guest speaker Professor Peter Shawhan will talk on gravitational wave astrophysics.
• Feb 22: "The Colors of Exoplanets: Studying Distant Worlds with Hubble and Spitzer" by guest speaker Kamen Todorov
• Feb 29: Citizen Science and Astronomy
• Mar 7: "Putting a New Spin on Black Holes" by guest speaker Professor Christopher Reynolds
• Mar 14: "The CMB: Everything can be Blamed on the Fly in the Primordial Soup" by guest speaker Lecturer Alan Peel
• Apr 4: "What is the Universe Made Of?" by guest speaker Professor Alberto Bolatto
• Apr 18: "Tales of Two Recent Cometary Flybys" by guest speaker Professor Jessica Sunshine
• Apr 22: Lyrid Meteor Shower
• Apr 25: "What Stops the Growth of Galaxies?" by guest speaker Alex McCormick
• Apr 28: We will host a Maryland Day booth: "Occupy Science: How the 99% Non-Scientist Citizens Can Contribute"

Events for Fall 2011

• Sept 14: First general meeting at 6PM in CSS1255 -- PPT
• Sept 14-15: First Look Fair
• Sept 21: "The Era of the First Stars" by guest speaker Kari Helgason -- Facebook Event
• Sept 28: "Galaxy Evolution and Gravitational Lensing" by guest speaker Alice Olmstead.
• Sept 29: First Observing Night at Hornbake Plaza
• Oct 5: "Fighting Light Pollution on Campus" by President Brett Morris -- Facebook Event.
• Oct 6: Observing Night at Hornbake Plaza
• Oct 12: "The Crazy Nature of Gravity" by guest speaker Mark Avara.
• Oct 19: "Death Portals in Space" by guest speaker Professor Cole Miller.
• Oct 26: "Mooning Pluto" by guest speaker Professor Doug Hamilton.
• Nov 2, 9: Survey of Light Fixtures on Campus for Outdoor Light Conservation and Light Pollution Management
• Nov 16: "Radiohead: On Radio Waves that Creep Around the Universe" by guest speaker Professor Neal Miller.

Events for Spring 2011

• February 24: General Meeting
• April 8: GSC: Searching for Europa's Hidden Ocean
• April 30: Maryland Day

Events for Fall 2010

• September 1: First Meeting of the Semester!
• September 15-16: First Look Fair
• October 1: Goddard Scientific Colloquium (GSC): Lightning on Saturn
• October 8: GSC: Two Years of Discovery with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• October 25: Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Conor Nixon (GSFC/UMD) on Chemical Complexity on Titan
• October 29: GSC: Lava Lakes on Io and Earth - The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Jovian System?
• November 3: Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Massimo Ricotti (UMD)
• November 5: GSC: Exploring the First Stars and Galaxies with Gamma-ray Bursts
• November 10: Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Tilak Hewagama (GSFC/UMD) on EPOXI Observes the Earth, Dreams of a remote Earth-like Planet
• December 3: GSC: Cosmology as Science? From Inflation to Eternity with Lawrence Krauss

Events for Spring 2010

• February 17: First Meeting of 2010!!
• March 31: Meeting - Maryland Day Planning
• April 21: Final Maryland Day Planning Meeting
• April 24: Maryland Day
• April 28: Meeting + Movie Night

Events for Fall 2009

• September 16-17: First Look Fair
• September 30: First Meeting!
• October 12: Theory Lunch Series: Saturn's largest ring
• November 4: Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Doug Hamilton
• November 21: Talk by Dr. Keith Arnaud on "The Hot and Violent Universe"
• December 4: NASA Goddard Scientific Colloquia: Lakes of Hydrocarbons and Seas of Sand on Titan
• December 11: NASA Goddard Scientific Colloquia: Exoplanets: From Discovery to Characterization and Beyond

Events for Fall 2007

• September 6: "Welcome Back" meeting and display case calendar
• September 13: Meeting
• September 19-20: First Look Fair
• September 20: Observatory Open House
• September 27: Men in Black movie night (meet and greet)
• October 5: Observatory Open House
• October 11: Men in Black II movie night
• October 20: Observatory Open House
• November 5: Observatory Open House

Events for Spring 2007

• February 1: Mars-Scape
• February 5: Observatory Open House
• February 20: Observatory Open House (fund raising canceled due to weather)
• March 1: Movie Night: Spaceballs
• March 3: Air and Space Museum
• March 5: Observatory Open House

Events for Fall 2006

• October 17: Tripod Astrophotography at the Observatory
• October 20: Observatory Open House
• November 5: Observatory Open House
• November 8: Mercury Transit
• November 16: Radio Astronomy Presentation by Dr. White
• December 7: Final Frontier Movie Night

Future Events

• Udvar-Hazy Visit
• Guest Speakers
• Star Parties
• Spring 2008: Camping Trip (Green Bank, WV? Beach?)
• Maryland Day 2008: Ideas welcome!

Possible Events (old)

• astronomy game night
• astronomy movie night
• observing nights at the observatory
• club barbecue
• seeing an IMAX or planetarium show at the Air & Space Museum
• student-faculty get together
• getting club T-shirts or sweatshirts
• model rocket building & flying
• camping/stargazing trip
• taking a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in NYC
• doing community service

These are all tentative plans. Some will get done, some will not. Remember to come to meetings to discuss anything you might want to do.