Women in Astronomy
The early works of Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton gave us great insights into the workings of astronomical events. The 19th and 20th centuries saw revelations in atomic and nuclear physics, paving the way for the study of high energy astrophysics events, such as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Throughout history great leaps in our scientific understanding have often come from the contributions of women, pre-dating Aristotle by thousands of years to the nuclear era with Lise Meitner and Marie Curie and continuing today.
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- Date: 12 Jul 2018
- Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- Southwest Research Institute
- 6220 Culebra Road
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States
- Building: Building 84, Tom Slick Memorial Library
- Room Number: Library Reading Room
- Starts 02 July 2018 04:00 PM
- Ends 11 July 2018 05:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr Amanda Bayless of Southwest Research Institute
Women in Astronomy
Biography:
Dr. Bayless is currently researching the explosive death of massive stars, known as supernovae (SNe), in collaboration with Los Alamos National Labs. She is PI of the SuperNovae Analysis aPplication (SNAP), a database of SNe models and observations and statistical software for correlations. SNAP is able to quickly perform the scientific analysis of observed SNe and the verification of new SNe models reducing computational time from months to hours. The public web site is available at snap.space.swri.edu. She is also the detector lead for OCTOCAM, a new optical/IR camera for Gemini South and a team member on the Lucy Ralph MVIC detector subsystem.