[AstroNet] Reminder - Bruce Elmegreen - MONDAY

[Robert Groess]

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  REMINDER - Public Lecture - Bruce Elmegreen - WITS University
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Speaker: Dr. Bruce Elmegreen (TJ Watson IBM Research Centre, New York)

Title: "The Formation of Suns and Galaxies"

Date: Monday, 16 February 2009

Time: 18:30 for 19:00

Venue: Senate Room (Second Floor, Senate House, WITS University)

Entrance: FREE

Topics to be discussed:
Bruce Elmegreen will consider the formation of stars like our Sun in
galaxies relatively nearby, as well as in very distant galaxies - galaxies
that are so far away that their light has been traveling to us for almost
the full age of the Universe. We see these galaxies as they looked when
they were young, and so can determine directly how galaxies and the stars
inside of them first formed. There are some interesting differences
between galaxies then and now, but the fundamental physical processes
appear to be the same. The public lecture will highlight the processes of
star formation that are observed in the constellations Orion and
Ophiuchus, and he will show images of very early star formation in the
Ultra Deep Field of the Hubble Space Telescope.