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When: April 15, 2009 at 7:30pm
Subject: Cosmic Origins
Speaker: Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SFSU
Abstract: Join astrophysicist Andisheh Mahdavi for a presentation exploring how unseen forces in the universe have led to the rise of stars, planets, and carbon-based life.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Mahdavi is an observational and computational astrophysicist focusing on clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound cosmic objects. Mahdavi specializes in marshaling data from orbiting X-ray satellites and ground-based optical and radio telescopes to understand the physics of dark and ordinary matter in clusters.





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