The
meeting will begin at 7:30 PM Friday, July 20, in McDonnell Hall, Room
162, on the Washington University campus. McDonnell Hall is accessible
from Forsyth Boulevard via Houston Way. The presentation, cosponsored
by NASA's Missouri Space Grant Consortium, is open to the public free
of charge.
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is developing hardware and software for access to a dedicated high-speed
network. Dr. Wilking will talk about his observations of young stars,
now forming from immense regions of dust and gas far from our local
section of the Milky Way galaxy. He used NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility,
which is perched on the top of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
But he directed the telescope and collected the data from Saint Louis,
using this high speed network.
Dr. Bruce Wilking is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University
of Missouri, Saint Louis. His research interests include star formation,
the nature of the environment surrounding the youngest stars, and the
evolution of star clusters. To collect his data, Dr. Wilking uses infrared
and microwave telescopes as well as large optical instruments.