Special Guest Lecturer:
Dr. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
The Cosmic History of Stellar Birth
Dr. Mac Low's work focuses on understanding the formation of planets, stars, and galaxies. At the smallest scales, he is studying the interaction of planets with their natal circumstellar disks. At scales of less than one light year, he has simulated the behavior of self-gravitating, supersonic, magnetized turbulence to understand the formation of the dense cloud cores in which protostars are observed.
At scales of hundreds to thousands of light years, he is studying the influence of multiple supernova explosions on interstellar gas, and how clouds of star-forming molecular gas form. Finally, at the galactic scale of tens of thousands of light years, he studies the large-scale formation of stars in galaxies.
About the Speaker
Dr. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low is a Curator in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC as well as an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University.
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Dr. Mac Low serves as an advisor for the HPC facilities development and expansion at the American Museum of Natural History. His research group relies on computational modeling using gas dynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of planets, and stars, and the structure of the interstellar gas, with applications to galactic winds and galaxy formation.
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• Dr. Jason Hofgartner, Liquids on
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Seas, and an Ocean
• Dr. Shana Tribiano, The History
of Astronomy
• Dr. Marc Favata, The Search for
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• Dr. Allyson Sheffield, Galactic
Collisions: The Role of Mergers
in Galaxy Formation
• Charles Liu, Galaxies & Our
Cosmic Future
• Dr. Heidi Hammell, Exploring the
Giant Planets
• Alan MacRobert, SETI: The Real
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• Linda Zimmerman, Astro X Files
• Ken Kremer, Mars, Saturn,
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• Roger Obstbaum, Earth vs. Venus:
Global Warming & the Runaway
Greenhouse Effect
• Carter Emmart, Virtual Reality:
Creating a 3D Digital Universe
• Arne Henden
• Mary Lou West
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7 pm – Hors d’oeuvres/Cash Bar
8 pm – Buffet Dinner with Four
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9 pm – Door Prizes & Lecture begins,
Coffee & Dessert
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