Series of Astronomy Lectures Open to the Public
11 March 1999 Series of Astronomy Lectures Open to the Public
March 11, 1999
Geneva, NY The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Department of Physics will go public this spring, when it offers one lecture each week from the Introductory Astronomy course to the public. These special public lectures will be given from 8 until 9:10 p.m. on Wednesday evenings in the Geneva Room, a lecture hall attached to the Warren Hunting Smith Library on the HWS campus. The lecturer on most evenings will be physics professor Larry Campbell. The lectures require no registration and the public is cordially invited to attend any lectures that interests them.
The schedule for the lectures is as follows:
March 31 The Celestial Clock: Times and Seasons
April 7 The Eclipsing Moon
April 14 Remote Chemistry by Starlight
April 21 The Sun and the Nature of Stars
April 28 Galaxies
May 5 Modern Theories of the Universe
Guest lecturer: Professor Ira Wasserman, professor of astronomy at Cornell University
May 12 The Births and Deaths of Stars
May 19 Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
May 26 Venus and Mars
June 2 Jupiter and Saturn
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