April 3rd, 2019; 7:30 – 8:30 pm at Terra Linda HS in San Rafael, Room 207
Much of what we think we know about space often comes
from film and television, but Hollywood’s job is more often to entertain
than to educate. In this presentation, Prof. Thomas Targett of Sonoma
State university will sort fact from fiction, taking a tour through the
worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and much more.
Thomas Targett obtained his undergraduate and masters
degrees from Cardiff University, with a research focus on 21-cm
emission from neutral hydrogen. He obtained his PhD from the University
of Edinburgh in the fields of sub-millimeter galaxy evolution and the
coupled growth of galaxies and black holes. In 2007 Dr. Targett began a
research postdoc at Caltech, followed by similar appointments at the
University of Birmingham (UK), the University of British Colombia, and
the University of Edinburgh.
As a member of several large international
astronomical collaborations, Dr. Targett has contributed to the data
reduction, processing, and scientific analysis of astronomical imaging
in the field of “Big Data”. These surveys include the Cosmic Assembly
Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), the Hawk-I UDS
and GOODS Survey (HUGS), and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 (UDF12).
His research now focuses on galaxy evolution, sub-millimeter galaxies,
and the high-redshift universe.
Links:
Dr. Targett at Sonoma State University
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