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</h3><p><strong><h3><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">October 18 - 4pm, Knight Seminar Room, MIT Room E19-623</font></h3></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Astromony 101 in 60 Minutes: there will NOT be a quiz</font></p><p>
Paul Schechter, Professor of Astrophysics, MIT</p><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Professor Schechter is an observational astronomer who
studies galaxies and clusters of galaxies and the
distribution of dark matter therein. For the last
several years, he has been carrying out ground-based
optical and <a href="http://www.stsci.edu" target="_blank">Hubble Space Telescope</a>
observations of the mirages produced by extragalactic
gravitational potentials. Schechter played a major role
in the development and implementation of the active
optics system for the 6.5-m Magellan Telescopes, located on Cerro
Las Campanas in Chile. He is currently working on an adaptive
optics system that will partially compensate for the
blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Paul Schechter received his undergraduate degree from Cornell in
1968 and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1975. Before coming to MIT
in 1988, he held postdoctoral positions at the Institute
for Advanced Study and the University of Arizona, a
faculty position at Harvard, and staff positions at Kitt
Peak National Observatory and the Carnegie
Observatories.</span></div></h3><div><br></div><div><img height="95" width="192" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="11928737-7f1e-47de-b3f4-6ed3fc9e0d2c" src="cid:D69CC7A7-C455-4E5E-9C36-545A9737F8E7@mit.edu"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/knight-science">web.mit.edu/knight-science</a> <a href="mailto:knight-info@mit.edu">knight-info@mit.edu</a></font></div></body></html>