Please Note: Any dinner tickets purchased from mid-2019 through 2022 will be honored in 2023.
Special Guest Lecturer:
Dr. Charles Liu
The Dynamic Universe & How We Observe It
Rockland Astronomy Club is proud to announce our 62nd Annual Dinner. The RAC Board of Directors looks forward to joining you for a spectacular night of informative astronomical discussion, delicious buffet dinner, fantastic door prizes, an update on your club for 2023, and Dr. Liu's talk. His lecture will focus on the recent fading of Betelgeuse and the changes we see in other celestial objects like stars, quasars, supernovae, and black hole collisions.
About the Speaker
Dr. Charles Liu, CUNY, AMNH
Astronomy Professor, Researcher,
Chair, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
College of Staten Island
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Professor Charles Liu is an extragalactic observational astronomer. His research focuses on colliding galaxies, starburst galaxies, and the star formation history of the universe; and it also wanders into the realm of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Charles also has a great love of teaching – informal as well as formal – and he feels a great need to help make the scientific community a better place for all people who wish to be a part of it.
Charles previously served as the faculty director of the Macaulay Honors College and The Verrazano School at CSI, and as Education Officer and Councilor/Trustee of the American Astronomical Society. He is an associate with the Department of Astrophysics and Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Currently, he serves as chair of CSI's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and as president of the Astronomical Society of New York. In 2020, he was named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
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Previous Speakers >
Previous Guest Lecturers
• Carlton (Tad) Pryor, Rutgers Univ.,
Astronomy Professor; Researcher
at Southern African Large Telescope
• Yervant Terzian, Cornell University,
Tisch Distinguished University
Professor, Director of NASA NY
Spacegrant
• Dr. Jason Hofgartner, Liquids on
Titan: Rain, Rivers, Lakes,
Seas, and an Ocean
• Dr. Shana Tribiano, The History
of Astronomy
• Dr. Marc Favata, The Search for
Black Holes & Gravitational Waves
• 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
Facts About Searching for ET
• Linda Zimmerman, Astro X Files
• Ken Kremer, Mars, Saturn,
Comets & Beyond
• 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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Event Schedule
7 pm – Hors d’oeuvres/Cash Bar
8 pm – Buffet Dinner with Four
Premium Meal Selections
9 pm – Door Prizes & Lecture begins,
Coffee & Dessert
Teens Welcome!
• Sorry – No children under age 12
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