ESI: Hot Science, Cool Talks

 

If you came to ESIs Hot Science, Cool Talks session tonight you may have passed by the UT POSSE booth. We had a computer set up running "Very Brief Tours of the Known Universe" using three programs to illustrate and illuminate different aspects of space science. Those programs were: Space Engine 0.94, PartiView with a database package called "The Digital Universe" from the Hayden Planetarium, and  Universe Sandbox.

If you were at the booth but weren't able to get a fact sheet I'll provide a link to a file-locker site so that you can download the PDF. The sheet really served as a jumping off point and a compliment to the tour at the booth but if you download Space Engine or another Universe sandbox program you can explore on your own.

Space Engine 0.95 [There are readme files that come with the program; they are helpful.]
The Digital Universe
Universe Sandbox

A Very Brief Tour of the Known Universe [Link to PDF. Read with PDFreaders like Adobe Acrobat or Foxit]

October 20th POSSE meeting

Professor Emeritus Dr. Yosio Nakamura of The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics will be presenting:

A New Look at Old Data

The Apollo lunar data and the Viking Martian data from the 1970s are drawing renewed interest recently as vastly more powerful computers than those available earlier and newly developed analysis techniques become available. In this talk, Dr. Namakura will describe these old experiments, review results of some recent analyses, and give his thoughts on future directions.

Dr. Nakamura has worked with Apollo data since it started coming back in then 1970s and is an expert in seismic analysis be it lunar, marine or terrestrial.

Who, When, Where & Why will always be updated in the top right-hand panel of the blog.

Dr. Yosio Nakamura