TALK 27: Ask an Astrophysicist?
2024-10-19 09:45 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/438695
What Question Would You Ask an Astrophysicist?

Speaker: Dr. Jaymie Matthews, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia

Abstract:
Eclipse Event
Recent landing of craft on moon.
Space station.
Observations of stars with magnet fields.
Compare rocket and ion propulsion to Mars?
Any questions about astronomy.

Astronomy education and public outreach are important facets of Matthews’ life and career. He served on the Board of Directors of Vancouver’s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre for almost 20 years, and on the Board of Youth Science Canada. In 2015, he received the Canada-Wide Science Fair Alumni Award. He was awarded a 1999 Killam Prize for teaching excellence in the UBC Faculty of Science, and the 2002 Teaching Prize of the Canadian Association of Physicists. In 2016, Dr. Matthews was awarded the Canadian Astronomy Society’s Qilak Award for his efforts in astronomy education and public outreach. Qilak is the Inuit word for the “canopy of the heavens” or the sky overhead. He has an asteroid named for him.

Speaker(s): Dr. Jaymie Matthews, Emeritus Professor

Agenda:
Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect.
10:00 AM P.D.T. Suggest you log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.
All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group.

We are looking for speakers for the rest of the year, contact Carl Zanon <sczanon@shaw.ca> if interested.

9:45 AM Zoom opens
10:00 AM Welcome and speaker introduction
10:05 AM Speaker

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/438695
