Space Physics Department Hosts Colloquia
Courtney Linn
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: News
The space physics department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott campus is implementing a set of physics and astronomy colloquia in an effort to provide opportunities to students and the community to learn about special topics.
The space physics department plans to host colloquia with esteemed researchers at ERAU, as well as from other universities.
"We [in the space physics department] want to have broad appeal with our colloquia," said Dr. Darrel Smith, space physics department chair. "We want to really bring in the community, and offer students an opportunity to learn about various research [projects] going on outside and within the campus. The problem that we have is that we are very isolated and don't often hear about the research done by other universities."
On Jan. 26, Dr. Danilo Marchesini of Tufts University presented the first colloquium of the semester, about distant galaxy formations. His presentation, called "The Universe at z=2-.4," discussed the differences between researching the events via experimental methods and a priori modeling. According to Dr. Marchesini, his data is similar to the predicted model, but the models overpredict luminosity. He also discussed possible sources of the differences between the model and his data.
The space physics department plans to host colloquia with esteemed researchers at ERAU, as well as from other universities.
"We [in the space physics department] want to have broad appeal with our colloquia," said Dr. Darrel Smith, space physics department chair. "We want to really bring in the community, and offer students an opportunity to learn about various research [projects] going on outside and within the campus. The problem that we have is that we are very isolated and don't often hear about the research done by other universities."
On Jan. 26, Dr. Danilo Marchesini of Tufts University presented the first colloquium of the semester, about distant galaxy formations. His presentation, called "The Universe at z=2-.4," discussed the differences between researching the events via experimental methods and a priori modeling. According to Dr. Marchesini, his data is similar to the predicted model, but the models overpredict luminosity. He also discussed possible sources of the differences between the model and his data.
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