Caltechlive! Science Saturdays
Public/ $10 (General Admission)What would 17th Century astronomer Johannes Kepler have seen if he had had today's advanced technology? The Astronomer's Dream is a 3D journey through a computer graphic visualization of space, based on data obtained by NASA satellites. GROWTH graduate student Anna Ho, will introduce the film and guide the post-screening discussion. Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Nov 18, 4:00pm Caltech Beckman Auditorium, PasadenaGravitational Waves Research Seminar
Research SeminarGROWTH principal investigator Mansi Kasliwal and assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech Gregg Hallinan will deliver the next seminar in the CaJAGWR series.
Nov 14, 4:00pm Hameetman Auditorim, Caltech campus, PasadenaStelar Marriages: A Turbulent Story
Astronomy on TapGROWTH postdoctoral fellow Nadia Blagorodnova takes the stage at the popular Der Wolfskopf Pub in Pasadena to share interesting facts about the social lives of binary stars such as the two neutron stars that smashed into each other to produce both gravitational and electromagnetic waves detected by LIGO and multiple observatories around the world in an event known as the GW170817.
23 October 2017 Der Wolfskopt Pub, Pasadena, CACaltech SURF Seminar Day
SEMINARCaltech students and participants in the GROWTH SURF 2017, Victor Baules and Alison Dugas will present their work on Caltech SURF Seminar Day.
21 October 2017 South Beckman Mall, Caltech, Pasadena, CACosmic Fireworks
Public/FREEGROWTH principal investigator and an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech, Mansi Kasliwal will talk about cosmic fireworks on Oct 20th as part of the highly popular Caltech's Stargazing and Lecture Series.
20 October 2017 Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pasadena, CAAnnual GROWTH Conference 2017
InternalGROWTH gathers for its seconf annual meeting hosted by our partner the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
8 - 10 October 2017 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USAChasing Cosmic Explosions with GROWTH
Planetarium Public LectureGROWTH students and postdocs who were observing on the night of July 29th from the Palomar Observatory in California joined remotely a large audience in the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, India to give them a glimpse of what real astronomers do, during an interactive presentation led by GROWTH co-investigator Varun Bhalerao.
29 July 2017 Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai, IndiaTime Domain Astronomy - Gravitational Waves
Undergraduate Summer SchoolGROWTH partners in Taiwan organize yearly summer camps designed to promote/introduce forefront astronomical topics and research to undergraduate students and get them interested to pursue graduate studies in astronomy/astrophysics. This year the camp's mail theme was to present an overview of gravitational waves and the GROWTH-Taiwan efforts to follow up and detect electromagnetic counterpart to gravitational wave events.
28-30 June 2017 National Central University, TaiwanThe Glavitationally Lensed Type Ia supernova iPTF16geu: A Tool for Precision Cosmology
Public/FreeGROWTH scientists Mansi Kasliwal and Ariel Goobar along with UC Berkeley Peter Nugent get together in this episode of the AAS Afternoon Astronomy Coffeee Hangout to talk about the recently dsicovered iptf16geu - a strongly lensed, multiple-imaged type Ia supernova that may hold the key to unlocking some mysteries in the Universe. Tune in on the YouTube channel and join the conversation with a hashtag #AstroCoffee.
11 May 2017 Google HangoutNew Frontiers in Time-Domain Astronomy
FreeOrganized by our partners at NCU, members of the GROWTH and ZTF collaboration gathered at the university to discuss science enabled by the ZTF discovery engine and the GROWTH follow-up network of observatories during a day-long workshop.
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, March 2 2017 NCU, TaiwanChasing Cosmic Explosions
FreeAs part of the museum's Sunday Showcase dedicated to astronomy and space, GROWTH co-investigator and undergraduate education lead, Prof Bryan Penprase will talk about brief but spectacular explosions and how astronomers chase them.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Feb 19 2017 ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, SingaporeThe Invisible Universe, Revealed : From Glowing Dust to Spinning Stellar Corpses
FreeGROWTH graduate student Anna Ho is the featured speaker for the upcoming public talk organized by the Ventura County Astronomical Society, which will take the audience beyong the "visible" universe and show them some of its secrets revealed to us only at other ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum like radio, x-ray and more.
7:15 PM - 9:00 PM, Jan 20 2017 Moorpark College Forum, Moorpark, CAPast Events