Global warming focus of 2018 McDonnell lecture
S. George Philander, one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, will deliver two talks March 28 and 29 as part of the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis’ McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
Wonders of Pluto
William B. McKinnon, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 29, on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
Obituary: Ernst K. Zinner, astrophysicist and cosmochemist, 78
Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor emeritus of physics and earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Thursday, July 30, of medical complications of mantle cell lymphoma. Among many other accomplishments, in 1987 Zinner identified for the first time material in the laboratory that predated the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Research as art
An inaugural exhibit of images by scientists, titled “Research as Art,” held April 3, included eerie landscapes created by vortices in superfluids, smeared false-color data from satellite-borne instruments, three-dimensional images of grains that exploded out of supernovas and many more enigmatic and colorful images.
Climate change on Mars topic of 2015 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
Roger J. Phillips, PhD, a scientist at the Southwest
Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and director emeritus of the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell
Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, April 15, at Washington University
in St. Louis. The lecture, titled “No Denying Climate Change on Mars,” will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 100 of Whitaker Hall.
Earth and moon’s origins are topic of 2014 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
The McDonnell Distinguished Lecture this year will describe current understanding of the formation of the solar system, particularly its mix of rocky planets, gas giants and icy planets. The part of the story we have not nailed down, says speaker Alex N. Halliday, PhD, of Oxford University, is the origin of Earth’s moon. The lecture, which takes place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in Whitaker Hall, Room 100, is free and open to the public.
Cowsik installed as James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences
Ramanath Cowsik, internationally recognized for his contributions to neutrino physics and to the understanding of dark matter in the universe, was installed as the James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences in a ceremony Oct. 7 in Holmes Lounge.
Stardust in the laboratory the topic of 2013 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
Thomas J. Bernatowicz, professor of physics in
Arts & Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture at
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Room 105, Steinberg Hall, at Washington
University in St. Louis. He will discuss what cosmic dust carried to
Earth by meteorites has revealed about the creation of the elements by
stars and supernovae. The St. Louis community is cordially invited to the lecture, which is sponsored by the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
‘Crazy’ offshoots of Einstein’s theories topic of 2012 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
Clifford Will, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Room 100, Whitaker Hall, at Washington University in St. Louis. Will plans to discuss “Black Holes, Waves of Gravity and Other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein.”
Coping with climate change the topic of 2011 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture Series
Charles F. Kennel, PhD, chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Space Studies Board, will deliver the fourth annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Room 100, Whitaker Hall, at Washington University in St. Louis. Kennel will discuss “Managing Climate Risk: Precarious Decades Ahead” during the free lecture that is open to the public.
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