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We'd like to invite you to our next Engage Talk:
Wednesday, March 10th, 7:00 pm
Engage: The Science Speakers Series presents Rok Roskar on Big Bang to an Immigrant Sun: The Birth and Life of Spiral Galaxies
In this talk I will try to illuminate some fundamental ideas about the growth of galaxies like our own Milky Way. I will begin with the cosmic context and gradually focus on increasingly detailed aspects of galactic disks, some of which defy basic expectations. I will illustrate that to understand some of these phenomena, it may be necessary to imagine stars like our own Sun as galactic travelers, rapidly and unexpectedly changing their residence within the Milky Way.
This is brought to you by the UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the Forum on Science, Ethics, and Policy.
Admission is free.
Venue: Physics and Astronomy Auditorium, Room 118, UW Campus.
Doors open at 6:45pm, talk will be about 30 minutes with lots of time for questions.
Graduate students in the sciences at the UW get a lot of cutting edge training but rarely in the ways of explaining their research to non-
specialists. Engage: The Science Speaker Series is a pilot program where PhD students build their skills of communicating with the public
about their work. This year, we showcase the research of mostly Astronomy PhD students; next year we will plan a seminar whose sole
purpose is to make an engaging science talk the entire family would understand and appreciate.
