The speaker for our April General Meeting will be Dr. Vera Margoniner, PhD., Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento.
Title: What is Dark Matter?
Abstract: Astronomers have come to the amazing conclusion that most of the matter and energy in the universe cannot be directly detected. This talk will present multiple and independent observations that have forced astronomers to this conclusion, and discuss what may this mysterious dark matter may consist of.
Friday, April 20, 2012:
Board Meeting at 6:30 PM
General Meeting at 8:00 PM
Both held at Sac City College, Mohr Hall
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About Dr. Margoniner:
My main scientific interests are in cluster and galaxy evolution; mechanisms of cluster detection; large-scale structure; weak and strong gravitational lensing and observational cosmology.
I am deeply involved with the order viagraorder viagraDeep Lens Survey (DLS), an ultra-deep multi-band optical survey covering 20 square degrees of “blank”regions in the sky. The main goal of this project is to use weak gravitational lensing to map the large-scale structure of the mass distribution, producing the first-ever sample of clusters selected by mass (shear-selected). The DLS has recently completed imaging observations and we have just computed buy generic viagrabuy generic cialisphotometric redshifts for the entire survey. I am in the process of optically searching for clusters and want to address cluster and galaxy evolution using the multi-band photometry plus redshifts. Also, adding accurate galaxy shapes will allow us to also address structure formation through weak-lensing and cosmic shear.
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Posted: March 10, 2012
Our annual election will be held March 16 at 8pm at Sacramento City College Mohr Hall Room 3. Only current members of SVAS may vote.
Here are the candidates:
For Officer positions:
Pres Ross Gorman
VP Walt Heiges
Sec Nerissa Adams
Tres Kirk Alexander
Board of Director seats:
Ramona Glasgow
Perry Porter (incumbent)
Lonnie Robinson
Richard Sandler
Friday, March 16, 2012:
Board Meeting at 6:30 PM
General Meeting at 8:00 PM
Both held at Sac City College, Mohr Hall
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Posted: March 6, 2012
SVAS has run a long stint with only a single treasurer. We need to find a backup for Kirk Alexander so that business can proceed normally if Kirk needs to be out of town or is otherwise unavailable for a long period of time. Kirk is willing to take on a “Treasurer in Training” — an apprentice and show him or her how it is done. It sounds daunting, but really all the tasks combined only take 2-4 hours maximum each month. Most of this is recording and depositing membership checks. Other tasks include paying a few bills and keeping QuickBooks in sync with the bank statements. The primary requirement is to own a PC on which we can install a copy of QuickBooks Pro. If you have Microsoft Office hopefully you also have a copy of Microsoft Access so you can keep the membership database in sync with the bank books.
Please contact Kirk Alexander (kdalex@ucdavis.edu) if you are interested in giving this a try. If it’s too much for you, we can continue the search.
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Posted: February 26, 2012
Below are March’s astronomical events, from Sea & Sky.
March 3 – Mars at Opposition.
March 8 – Full Moon.
March 14 – Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
March 20 – March Equinox.
March 22 – New Moon.
Visit Sea & Sky for more information on these events.
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Posted: February 25, 2012
An extremely rare astronomical event is coming up in June — the Transit of Venus! Make plans to see this, because it won’t happen again until December 2117.
Before 2004, the last pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The first of a pair of transits of Venus in the beginning of the 21st century took place on June 8, 2004 and the next will be on June 6, 2012. After 2012, subsequent transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125. Learn more at Wikipedia or by searching on Google for “Transit of Venus.”
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Posted: February 3, 2012
