The Ryerson Astronomical Society, the U of C's undergrad astronomy group, holds meetings most Mondays at 8pm in Ryerson 358. Everyone in the University community is welcome at these short lectures aimed at a general audience. Observing in the Society's 100-year-old observatory is held after meetings and also on Thursdays, 8-10pm, weather permitting.
If the door to Ryerson is locked, you can enter through the main (south) door of Eckhart and cross over to Ryerson on the second floor.
More information about the Society and our meetings, including information about signing up
for our mailing list, can be found on our website:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/RAS/
| RAS MEETING SCHEDULE SPRING 2006 | |||
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1st | 27 mar | NO MEETING | |
| 2nd | 03 apr | Steven Lucy [R] | Beginner's Guide to Practical Astronomy |
| 3rd | 10 apr | Dean W. Armstrong [R] | Interplanetary Dust |
| 4th | 17 apr | TBA | Yerkes Observatory |
| 5th | 24 apr | Andy Puckett [G] | Distant Minor Planets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 6th | 01 may | Don York [F] | Xian: A Detector Astronomical Transients |
| 7th | 08 may | Nathan Hearn [F] | Galaxy Collisions: Structure Evolution and Star Formation |
| 8th | 15 may | Katie de Boer [R] | Black holes and the information paradox |
| 9th | 22 may | Fabian Schmidt [G] | The mystery of cosmic rays |
| 10th | 29 may | MOVIE NIGHT -- LOCATION TBA | |
| FIN | 5 jun | NO MEETING | |
[R] = RAS member, [U] = other undergrad, [F] = faculty/postdoc, [G] = grad student, [O] = other