Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Dec 5, 2006 0:50:32 GMT -6
Exploratorium to Offer Live Webcasts - Highlighting University of Chicago's South Pole Telescope
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three University of Chicago cosmologists are providing an insider's look at the race to finish building their 10-meter South Pole Telescope in a series of blogs and video updates in collaboration with the Exploratorium, San Francisco's Museum of science, art and human perception. The Exploratorium's next two live webcasts featuring the telescope project will begin at 8 a.m. CST on both Saturday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 30.
On Dec. 9, Tom Crawford and Jeff McMahon, scientists of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, will show viewers a day in the life of a South Pole scientist. Then they will describe their plans to use the telescope to search for dark matter, galaxy clusters, and evidence of the expanding universe.
The telescope is one of the major projects launching during the International Polar Year. IPY is a two-year, globally coordinated research program to study polar environments and climate, both past and present, and a variety of other phenomena.
The webcasts are part of an Exploratorium celebration of the 2007-2008 IPY highlighting the work of scientists at field sites surrounding the North and South Poles. The webcasts are supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Jim Clark Endowment for Internet Education, and the McBean Family Foundation. The webcasts can be downloaded via www.exploratorium.com/poles/telescope.php .
For more information, see www.exploratorium.com/poles/
Source: newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20061204.132517&time=14%2058%20PST&year=2006&public=0
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I would like to spend time at the polar scope, but hell...I'm shivering up here in the Chicago winter!...
