USD Physics Department Presents Astronomy Day
The Department of Physics, in conjunction with The American Astronomical Society (AAS), presents the AAS Shapley Lecture for Astronomy Day 2019.This year’s guest speaker is Edward Churchwell from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The lecture will be held April 22, 7 - 8 p.m. in the Akeley Lawrence Science Center room 125. It is free and open to the public.
Churchwell received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1970 and became a tenured scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, in 1972. His scientific interests include astrophysics of star formation, large scale galactic structure, cosmology and extra-terrestrial life. Churchwell has taught astronomy and astrophysics at all levels.