From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Thu Mar 27 04:56:52 2008 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:56:52 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] FW: Next Dean Lecture, Monday, March 31 Message-ID: <003201c88fc6$f9daecf0$5e4eca4c@mark66d1433187> Anybody wants to carpool to this, from Mtn View? -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Dean Lecture Series [mailto:deanseries at calacademy.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:48 PM To: Dean Series Subject: Next Dean Lecture, Monday, March 31 Please join us for the next Benjamin Dean Lecture on Monday, March 31. Our speaker will be Dr. Rachel Bean from Cornell University, speaking about "The Dark Side of the Universe." Recent cosmological observations have provided an extremely puzzling insight into the nature of the universe. 95% of the universe's contents are invisible or "dark", with 25% being "dark matter" and the majority in a mysterious form labeled "dark energy". Understanding the origins of the dark universe is requiring collaboration between theorists and observers, and between astronomy and fundamental particle physics and represents one of the major challenges in physics today. The program begins at 7:30 pm in Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street (at Presidio Avenue). Tickets are $5 in advance online at http://www.calacademy.org/events/index.php or at the door. Please e-mail any questions to deanseries at calacademy.org or call 415-321-8000. Parking is available across the street in the UCSF Laurel Heights campus parking lot for $1.25 per night. Parking in the JCC garage is $1.50 per half-hour. The #1 California, #3 Jackson, #4 Sutter, and #43 Masonic MUNI lines stop directly in front of the building. The #38 Geary and #24 Divisadero buses stop only a few blocks away. _____________________ Here are some key web addresses from last month's fantastic talk by Dr. Robert Hurt: Spitzer's Site http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/ Podcasts from Spitzer http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/podcasts/index.shtml Cool Cosmos (Infrared astronomy & science for all ages) http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ ____________________________________ Benjamin Dean Lecture Series in Astronomy Morrison Planetarium California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA 415-321-8593 deanseries at calacademy.org http://www.calacademy.org/events/index.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: