Title: SDO, The Sun, The Universe (Video)
Abstract: The Sun is our paradigm for how stars evolve and behave. It is the only star whose surface is well-resolved in time and space. It is the only star which local helioseisomology can look into and through. It is also the only star with a well-resolved corona. One tool we use to study the Sun is the Solar Dynamics...
[more]Title: How a Student's Daydream About Stellar Spectra Became one of the World's Most Important Digital Libraries, the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (Video)
Abstract: In 1979 I was daydreaming out the window of the Kresge Library when I had a vision of stellar spectra as occupying points in an n-dimensional vector space, where n was the number of resolution...
[more]Title: Explaining the Diversity in the "end state" of Galactic Evolution (Video)
Abstract: Early-type galaxies (elliptical and lenticular galaxies) are high-entropy stellar systems, all galaxies will eventually tend toward such states (perhaps sped up by interactions with other galaxies). Many early-type galaxies are also high-entropy gaseous systems, essentially...
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Students on the astronomy FSP arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday, January 9. Tuesday was a day of orientation and a tour of the University of Cape Town and...
[more]Our Department has a number of exciting research opportunities for new graduate students starting in Fall 2017.
Prospective students are encouraged to contact faculty members to discuss potential research. Ongoing research projects are listed here.
The deadline for application is January 15, 2017.
The upcoming ISINGLASS sounding rocket mission (February 2017, Poker Flat Rocket Range, Alaska) will sample multiple locations simultaneously in the auroral ionosphere to take gradient measurements of plasma parameters. Two identical rockets will be flown into two separate events (ie, quiet early evening arc vs dynamic rayed arc); each rocket has a large subpayload, and four small deployable payloads...
[more]The next Astronomy FSP will be offered during Winter 2017 term. Read more about it on the Astronomy Foreign Study Page or see the brochure on the Off-Campus Program's website.
Professor Marcelo Gleiser organized the “The Sciences, the Humanities, the Future,” conference that launched the College’s Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement (ICE). Among the 10 speakers were: Dartmouth’s Professor of Philosophy Adina Roskies, speaking on “Free Will in the Age of Neuroscience,” and writer and physicist Alan Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams; Good Benito), speaking on “The...
[more]Jonathan Vandermause (’16), a dual major in Physics and Mathematics and winner of the Gazzaniga Family Science Award this year, is a finalist for the LeRoy Apker Award from the American Physical Society, recognizing outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students. Jon’s presentation at the finals was recently featured on the APS News website. Click here to read the article.
The scientists of the BARREL team sent their last balloon soaring toward the stratosphere over Sweden on Aug. 30, 2016, capping off four years of launches to study how electrons "rain" into Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South poles. Click here to read a NASA article that highlights the project.