Texas Cosmology Center Symposium: Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization
Cosmic Infrared Background
11 May 2012
The Texas Cosmology Center will host the symposium "Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization," Monday and Tuesday, May 14-15, 2012, at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The meeting brings together experts on various aspects of the near infrared background and its implications for the epoch of reionization and galaxy formation. The Cosmic Infrared Background is both difficult to measure, and very challenging theoretically. Foreground infrared sources that must be subtracted include zodiacal light (dust particles in the solar system emitting heat), and intracluster dust from our local group of galaxies. The hard theoretical question is, what is the source of the isolated background? The meeting is sponsored by the Texas Cosmology Center and The Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik.
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Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization
Miller Wins $20K Grand Prize for Undergraduate Research from
George Miller
News release provided by University Co-Op
3 May 2012
The George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence are awarded each year to students who have made an uncommon contribution to their fields of study by way of research project, literary work, musical composition, humanitarian project or similar undertaking. Awards range from $2,000 to a top prize of $20,000. Students with exemplary academic records are nominated by UT faculty members and winners are chosen by a selection committee. These award-winning students have embraced the opportunities around them with a passion and intellectual creativity. more..
Texas Cosmology Center Symposium: Dark Matter Signatures in the Gamma-ray Sky
3 May 2012
The Texas Cosmology Center will host the symposium "Dark Matter Signatures in the Gamma-ray Sky," Monday and Tuesday, May 7-8, 2012, at the AT&T Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The meeting brings together experts on various aspects of indirect detection of dark matter, which is inferred to exist by its gravitational influence on visible matter at large scales, but for which there is yet no means of direct detection. A central aim is to consider new data from the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray spacecraft. Is dark matter the source of any of the new data, and if not, could that be a constraint? Scheduled talks range from particle physics, to the inner region of the Milky Way, to galaxy clusters.
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Dark Matter Signatures in the Gamma-ray Sky
George Mitchell
McDonald Observatory
23 April 2012
Galveston, TX --The University of Texas at Austin is naming an innovative astronomical instrument doing groundbreaking work at McDonald Observatory after pioneering energy producer, real estate developer, and philanthropist George P. Mitchell and his late wife Cynthia Mitchell. University representatives including McDonald Observatory Director David L. Lambert and Chief Astronomer Gary Hill, along with members of the UT-Austin Astronomy Program Board of Visitors, will celebrate the event with Mr. Mitchell and his family at a private event in Galveston today. more..
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