[Sci-tech-public] Knight Science Journalism at MIT - Seminar - Tuesday, October 18

[Eric Strattman]

October 18 - 4pm, Knight Seminar Room, MIT Room E19-623

Astromony 101 in 60 Minutes: there will NOT be a quiz

Paul Schechter, Professor of Astrophysics, MIT


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 Hubble Space Telescope 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.

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.


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