Kyoung-Soo Lee - (topic) Galactic structure
Dr. Lee is an associate professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue. Her research interests include observational cosmology, galaxy formation, star formation and cosmic structure. These provide for a very solid formation for a presentation to us about galactic structure. This should be a very interesting presentation!
Kevin Schindler - From Mulberry, Indiana, to Mars & Back (via Bloomington & Flagstaff) - The Story of the Slipher Brothers - Vesto & Earl
Kevin Schindler is the historian at Lowell Observatory - where he has worked for 29 years - and an active member of the Flagstaff history and science communities. He has authored eight books and contributes a bi-weekly astronomy column, “View from Mars Hill”, for the Arizona Daily Sun newspaper.
Growing up on a farm in Indiana, Vesto and Earl Slipher honed their talents for tinkering with machinery while learning the value of hard work. They put these skills and lessons to good use throughout their careers, both working in the field of astronomy and both spending their entire professional careers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. They both helped revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos. Vesto detected the expanding nature of the universe, and Earl photographed Mars more than anyone else in the world. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of their contributions.
Fun fact: Kevin has both a fossil crab and asteroid named after him.