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Probing the Universe with galaxy clusters: New windows from new technologies |
Dr Mark Bautz |
Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM |
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| Our speaker, Dr. Mark Bautz, will discuss recent observations of galaxy clusters that are beginning to provide new information about the history of the cosmos. A key to this progress has been the study of these objects using telescopes operating at millimeter, visible, infrared and X-ray wavelengths. Dr. Bautz will outline the potential impact of these results on our understanding of cosmology, and review some of the new technologies that have made them possible, concluding with a summary of future prospects for this line of research.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Mark Bautz is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, where he serves as Associate Director. He has been developing instrumentation for X-ray astronomy for over twenty years, and has worked on X-ray cameras for a number of space observatories, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. His current research interests concern new X-ray imaging detector and observational studies of clusters of galaxies.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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