Potpourri Meeting Friday Sept. 8

Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members

Speaker: Swapna
Title: A visit to the European Space Agency-ESTEC in the Netherlands
Description:   Highlights of the ESA facility in the Netherlands

Speaker: Dana Adhis & Ruyi Xu
Title: Enhancing Astronomy Education with Digital Telescope Labs
Description:  Our project explores integrating the eVscope to create astronomy labs for students in order to improve their self-efficacy, confidence in the material, and learning outcomes which include comprehension, communication and critical thinking.

Speaker: Joseph Tang
Title: The 3D Dust Temperature Map’s Correlation with 3D Stellar Luminosity Fields
Description: Using Gaia DR3 data, the 3D stellar radiation field around star formation regions was calculated and correlated with a 3D temperature map of the Interstellar dust in the Milky Way.”

This meeting is in-person only at University of Toronto in room DV2082.