Category: Events

Speaker: Emmanuel Schaan

Presentation on May 3, 2024 8:00pm PST in the CSM Planetarium Dr Emmanuel Schaan: Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory A Cosmic Shadow Theater: How Galaxy Silhouettes Reveal Their Dark Side Using the Cosmic Microwave Background to reveal the invisible components of galaxies to shed light on the nature of Dark Matter, Dark Energy […]

Speaker: Rob Hawley

Presentation on March 1, 8:00pm PST in the CSM Planetarium Speaker: Rob Hawley, Eclipse Chaser; Fremont Peak Observatory Association Experiencing the Great North American Eclipse Free and open to the public. On April 8 the Great North American Eclipse will occur. This will be an eclipse you will want to experience and photograph.  It will be […]

Speaker: Shannah Withrow

Presentation on September 6, 8:00pm PST in the CSM Planetarium Speaker: Shannah Withrow, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center The Future of Mars Helicopters Free and open to the public. Ingenuity has shown that flying in the Martian atmosphere is possible and that helicopters can provide critical insight and support to ground-based assets. Though Ingenuity […]

SMCAS News Events of Week of 02/19/2024 and Beyond

Tuesday, 02/20/24  3:30 PMIn-person Hewlett Teaching Center370 Jane Stanford Way, Room 201Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305 Chaotic quantum dynamics and the quantum geometry of spacetime Research in string theory has uncovered deep connections between strongly coupled quantum systems with chaotic dynamics and the quantum physics of black hole spacetimes. The realization of these ideas for cosmological spacetimes such […]

Speaker: Pascal Lee

Presentation on Friday February 2, 2024, 8:00pm PST in the CSM Planetarium Pascal Lee: Senior Planetary Scientist, SETI; Chairman, Mars Institute; Director, NASA HMP N ~ 1: Alone In The Milky Way Free and open to the public. Planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee will review our present knowledge about each term of the Drake Equation […]