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Imaging and Imagining Space: A collaboration between Farhad Zadeh and Pamela Bannos who is a photographer and teaches at NU resulted in an exhibition at Block Gallery. The IT department developed a website in collaboration with us. To learn more about astronomical images http://spaceimages.northwestern.edu. Public Lectures on the Web: I
have embarked on an outreach program of public lectures that
has brought to a forum diverse and interesting topics with
broad appeal to the students and the public. These public lectures
are videotaped and can be viewed on NU's department of Physics
and Astronomy website. http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/pub_lectr/public_lectures.html.
"Music of the Spheres" "Copenhagen and the German Atomic Bomb Project: Bending Perception to Wish" "What's Your Sign? Astrology, Astronomy, and Pseudoscience" "The History of Physics: Paul Dirac -- A Beautiful Mind in the 20th Century" "Tsunami: The Ultimate Sea Waves, Long-range Vectors of Death and Destruction" "Asteroids: Their History, their Impact on Earth and their Complex Geology" "The Birth and Death of Stars" Image Analysis in Astronomy: People who are eager to learn how image analysis can be used to extract information in astronomy, could use simple interaction tools on a series of exercises given here http://vygotsky.at.northwestern.edu:8080/hst/assignments/. The image analysis is designed for undergraduate non-science majors and the public interested in learning astronomy through the manipulation of astronomical images of celestial objects. The IT group at NU developed these exercises based on some of my pwn real-world research examples. One of the objectives of these exercises is to communicate that astronomical images obtained in different wavelength bands can be used as a vehicle to gain a better understanding of the physical laws. |
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