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Astronomy on Tap

Hunting for Dark Galaxies.
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute of Technology)

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Astronomy on Tap

What is Dark Matter?
Justin Read (University of Surrey)

Chasing Dark Matter with the Gaia Enceladus
Lina Necib (Caltech)

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Astronomy on Tap

The Galaxy Ecosystem
Stephanie Ho (UCSB)

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Public Talk

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Astronomy on Tap

The Voyagers and Their Interstellar Records Have Left the Solar System
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)

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Astronomy on Tap

The Microlensing Odyssey
Etienne Bachelet (LCO)

Astronomical Ballooning from Antarctica
Kristina Davis (UCSB)

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Public Talk
Nov 7, 2018

Andrea Ghez (UCLA)

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Public Talk
Oct 31, 2018

David Spergel (Princeton University)

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Astronomy on Tap

How to Wake Up a Monster (Supermassive Black Holes, Galaxy Crashes, and all the rest..)
Emanuele Paolo Farina (UCSB)

New Horizons: From Pluto to Ultima Thule, Infinity and Beyond
Tim Lister (LCO)

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Astronomy on Tap

Building Super Star Clusters on Supercomputers
Benny Tsang (UCSB)

My Attraction to Magnets
Dan Read (Cardiff University)

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Public Talk

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Explosions in Space.
Maria Drout (Carnegie Observatories)

Spectroscopy: Telling you how the Universe really works.
Tobias Schmidt (UCSB)

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Mission Gravity: What Newton never knew.
Roger Freedman (UCSB)

Dark Forces that Shape the Universe
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria)

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Public Talk
May 23, 2018

Gabriela González (Louisiana State University)

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The Universe in Infrared Light
Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)

Astronomy, What is it good for?
Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)

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Astronomy - It's not just for Tesla drivers
Chuck McPartlin (SBAU)

The Sky is Alive with the Sound of Music
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)

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Astronomy on Tap

How to Take a Picture of an Extra-solar World.
Isabel Lipartito (UCSB)

From Sputnik to Tesla: The Things We Launch into Space
Monica Turner (LCO)

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Public Talk
Feb 21, 2018

Debra Fischer (Yale University)

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Astronomy on Tap

A Saturnian Farewell: Thirteen Years of Cassini
Joey Chatelain (LCO)

How Fast Can You Grow a Supermassive Black Hole?
Fred Davies (UCSB)

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Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars
Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)

A Kilanova from Merging Neutron Stars
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)

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Public Talk
Nov 16, 2017

Alan Stern (NASA)

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Public Talk
Nov 6, 2017

Iair Arcavi (Las Cumbres Observatory)

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Public Talk
Aug 9, 2017

Tim Brown (Las Cumbres Observatory)

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Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe
Jeff Silverman (Samba TV)

The Science of Star Trek
Rachael Livermore (UT Austin)

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A Brief History of LCO: What it Takes to Run a Worldwide Observatory
Brian Haworth and Eric Saunders (LCO)

Hunting for Dark Matter: The Underground Search for the Missing Universe
Sally Shaw (UCSB)