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http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~agoodman/
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| Seeing Stars Form, and More |
| Prof Alyssa Goodman |
| Thursday, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM |
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This presentation will combine a summary of our current understanding of how stars form with a demonstration of visualization techniques used in studying how stars form, as well as how hearts pump blood.
Alyssa Goodman is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, and a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Goodman and her research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA study the dense gas between the stars. They are particularly interested in how this interstellar gas arranges itself into new stars. Their investigations use a variety of observational techniques covering the spectral range from X- ray to radio.
Goodman also has a strong interest in scientific computing. She co-founded The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) at Harvard, and she served as its Director from 2005-8. The IIC is a multi-disciplinary center that fosters new work at the boundary between computing and science. Goodman's own research in this area focuses on new ways to visualize and analyze the tremendous data volumes created by surveys. Presently, she is working closely with colleagues at Microsoft Research, helping to expand the use of the WorldWide Telescope program.
Goodman received her undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard in 1989. She held a President's Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley from 1989-92, after which she took up a post as Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard. In 1997, she received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society for her work on interstellar matter and became full professor at Harvard in 1999. In 2008, she served as Chair of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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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