Speaker: Donald York (U. Chicago)
Donald G. York attended Wiley High School in Terre Haute,
Indiana, got his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and
received his PhD from The University of Chicago. His research deals
with the
nature of the dust and gas between the stars, on which he has published
hundreds of papers in professional journals, He is the lead
editor of a new
book on the history of the telescope and its impact on society. He has
been
involved with the development of Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico,
the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satelite and other
observatories.
His leadership with Sloan Digital Sky Survey has helped it to
become one of
the most successful projects in the history of astronomy.
We will record the lecture for our talk archive.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
wrote a piece about the lecture in its Oct.
6, 2010 edition.
The Physics
& Astronomy
Department’s Bullitt Lecture is a free lecture aimed at the general
public. Since 2001, the
Physics & Astronomy Department’s Bullitt Lecture has presented a
distinguished astrophysicist to a Louisville audience in the Gheens
Science Hall and Rauch
Planetarium.
Gale
Christianson,
Hubble's
biographer
at Indiana State, Fred Espinak, an
eclipse expert at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, stellar astrophysicists
James Kaler of
U. Illinois, C. R. O'Dell of Vanderbilt and Caty Pilachowski of Indiana
U,
cosmologists Fang Li Zhi of Arizona, J. Richard
Gott of Princeton, Alan
Dressler of the Carnegie
Observatories and lunar experts Ferenc Pavlics of GM and the Apollo
project and Phillip Abel of NASA have been Bullitt Lecturers.
College
and high school students, teachers, and many others from the community
interested in
the impact and excitement that astrophysics has generated
have attended Bullitt Lectures in
large numbers. The public and members
of the University community are warmly invited!
The
Lecture is endowed through a grant from the family of William
Marshall
Bullitt, the
Solicitor General
of the United States under President
William
Howard
Taft. Here is
a brief
biography and description of his connection to the University of
Louisville.
Several of the Bullitt lectures are available in streaming (.asx)
format in
the
UL
astronomy
talk
archive.
Posters for all of the current and previous Bullitt Lectures are
available:
2001 Apr 25 Gale Christianson, "Edwin Hubble: An Astronomer's Life"
2002 Apr 13 Fred Espinak, "Solar Eclipses and Mysteries of the Sun"
2003 Apr 15 James Kaler, "The Life and Death of Stars"
2004 Apr 21 Fang Li Zhi, "Dark Energy in the Universe"
2005 Mar 24 J. Richard Gott, "A Map of the Universe"
2006 Apr 20 Alan Dressler,
"Galaxies, Stars, Planets and Life: the Birth of the
Modern Universe"
Dr. Dressler
was interviewed on Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on
April 20, 2006 on State of Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio interview.
2007 Oct 25 C.R. O'Dell,
"Creating the Hubble Space Telescope"
2008 Oct 29 Caty Pilachowski,
"The Star Cities of the Milky Way"
flier
Dr. Pilachowski was
interviewed on Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on October 29, 2008 on State of Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio interview.
2009 Oct 8 Ferenc
Pavlics
and Phillip Abel, "40 Years: Lunar Exploration"
flier
Mr. Pavlics and Dr.
Abel were
interviewed on Louisville's WFPL (NPR) radio on October 8, 2009 on State of Affairs, which has an
archive edition of the radio interview.
Links
to
other
Bullitt Lectures and Bullitt book collections:
Bullitt Lecture in
Mathematics
Bullitt Lecture in Fine Arts
William
Marshall
Bullitt
Collection of Rare Mathematics and Astronomy Books
More
on the Bullitt Collection of Books at UofL