Friday, January 6, 2012
Robert Nemiroff, professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, will address the AAA on òÀÜBest Short Astronomy Videos,òÀ݈àFriday, January 6. The free public lecture will begin at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the American Museum of Natural History.
Nemiroff and Jerry T. BonnellòÀÔa scientist at NASAòÀÙs Goddard Space Flight CenteròÀÔcofounded and together run the popular Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website. One or the other has given a presentation to the club each year on the best astronomy pictures of the previous year. But this year, itòÀÙs videos. òÀÜI decided to try something different, and there have been some really cool short videos on APOD,òÀÝ Nemiroff says.
Last year, APOD, which was founded in 1995, reachedˆàone million hits per day. The APOD archive is one of the largest collections of annotated astronomical images on the Internet. It is disseminated in 16 languages.
NemiroffòÀÙs research areas include gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, cosmology, and sky monitoring. HeòÀÙs placed video lecturesˆàfrom his classes òÀÜIntroductory AstronomyòÀÝ and òÀÜExtraordinary Concepts in PhysicsòÀÝ on iTunes and elsewhere on the Internet for free.