Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Invited Talks and Testimonials . ... Dr. Plait has given talks about Bad (and good!) ... Dr. Plait can also give talks on almost any topic in astronomy given a few weeks notice (for example, for a talk at a science museum he created a talk about current astronomical satellites and the work they are doing to further scientific knowledge -- this talk is updated as new observatories are launched), and will be happy to talk to you about your needs . ...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

... Martin Bly and I have agreed to lead the Linux BOF at this year's ADASS and wish to invite you to attend. Since the BOF wasn't final until just last week we are still trying to organize a list of speakers willing to give a short (5-7 minute) presentation on work they have done, or some aspect of working with Linux that may be different from the normal workstation environment (e.g. writing device drivers for new instrumen- tation, managing large networks of systems, etc). ...

... G.S.Bisnovatyi-Kogan Gravitational radiation in neutron stars formation and merging. ... Experience SAI MSU в?' INFN collaboration in the GW - experiment . ... V.M.Lipunov Gravitational Waves Sky . ... Michael B. Mensky and Valentin N. Rudenko High-frequency GW detectors based on electromagnetic-gravitational resonance . ... Fulvio Ricci Low Temperature and Gravitational Wave detectors . ... A.M.Cherepashchuk Chairman (SAI MSU, Moscow) . ... V.A.Matveev (INR RAS, Moscow) . ...

. More than 600,000 galaxies from the BOSS survey were utilized to measure the strength of gravitational interactions of galaxies extremely far away from each other. This is a visual representation of that measurement. The amount that the circles are distorted, or squashed from perfect concentric rings, indicates the velocity that galaxies are falling towards each other and hence the strength of the gravitational interactions. Credit: BOSS/Univ. of Portsmouth

... разработка теории и методов расчета лучевых дифференциалов первого, второго и третьего порядков в градиентных оптических системах; . ... разработка методов расчета геометрических аберраций второго и третьего порядка осесимметричных оптических систем, содержащих асферические поверхности и градиентные среды типа "псевдоаксикон"; . ... получены формулы для расчета смещения изображения и геометрических аберраций второго порядка в градиентных оптических системах с малыми нарушениями осевой симметрии; . ...