| When: |
October 21, 2009 at 7:00pm |
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| Subject: |
Exploring the Invisible Universe: The Past and Future of Radio Astronomy |
| Speaker: |
Peter Williams, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley |
| Abstract: |
Join Peter Williams, fourth-year graduate student at the UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy, for a presentation on the basics of radio astronomy. Williams will explore what can be seen in the radio sky, and the different ways in which astronomy is done at optical and radio frequencies. The presentation will include information about what can be expected from radio astronomy in the near and not-so-near future: an exciting convergence of recent technological advances promises to do as much for radio astronomy as the invention of the CCD has done for visible-light astronomy. |
| Speaker Bio: |
Peter Williams, fourth-year graduate student at the UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy |
