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SUMMARY:The Cold Case of SN 1054 by Giuseppe Longo
DESCRIPTION:The Cold Case of SN 1054 \nOne of the most thrilling events on the sky would be Supernova (SN) event. Here\, we investigate possible causes for missing historical records of SN1054 in Europe. We reconstruct the European sky at the time of the event and found that the new “star” (SN1054) and planet Venus are on opposite sides of the sky.\nNamely\, we find that Venus was in the east and SN1054 was in the west\, with the Sun sitting directly between the two equally bright objects\, as documented in East-Asian records. In spite of the relevance of the phenomenon no record of it is found anywhere in the European chronicles.\nWe present a likely explanation of such silence. An explanation which is connected with the schism between the Catholic and the orthodox churches and with the excommunication of Astrology and astrologers. \nEvent location \n \n  \n  \nGiuseppe Longo\nProfessor of Astrophysics\nAccademico Pontaniano\nAssociate – California Institute of Technology\nAssociate . INFN and INAF \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:“Quantification of Fossil Data”
DESCRIPTION:“Quantification of Fossil Data” and an update on the fossil identification app\nABSTRACT: \nIt has been over 75 years\, since Charles Butts published his famous and classic monograph on the fossils of the Appalachian mountains in 1941. Recently\, I have been in the process of updating the taxonomy of his work and I am in the process of developing an app to help paleontologists identify fossils. This talk will present the results of my work which has revealed interesting evolutionary patterns in fossil organisms. At the request of Virginia Tech University and James Madison University\, I have added traditional morphological filters to the database of the app\, which has allowed me to increase the number of fossils the app can identify and the accuracy of the identifications. The app is currently being used by curators at the Virginia Museum of Natural History to identify their unknown fossil specimens. \nby Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg (Dae Miami SL)  \nVirginia USA \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:Science Circle 10th anniversary
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SUMMARY:"Discrepancies in the Measured Expansion Rate of the Universe"
DESCRIPTION:“Discrepancies in the Measured Expansion Rate of the Universe”\nAbstract:\nThe most basic parameter in our description of the expanding Universe is the current expansion rate\, given by the Hubble Constant.\nA mere two decades ago\, the value of that constant was uncertain to a factor of two. Since then\, the face of cosmology has changed\, and we are now in an era of precision cosmology. We are able to measure the value of the Hubble Constant to within a few percent. The problem is\, we now have two measurements– one from nearby objects such as variable stars and low-redshift supernovae\, and the other from statistics of fluctuations in the early Universe. The two measurements are different at about the six-percent level\, which is greater than the uncertainties on the individual measurements. While astronomers of two decades ago would dream to be in this situation\, we find ourselves questioning whether there is something going on in the expanding universe that we haven’t figured out\, or whether it is a matter of systematic uncertainties that we haven’t yet identified.\nIn this talk\, I will discuss the history of both the Universe and of our dominant model of the Universe. I will describe how the Hubble Constant went from being extremely uncertain to relatively well known… well enough that we can see a discrepancy in two different measurements. I will describe the two ways we measure the Hubble Constant\, and talk about possibilities for resolving the discrepancy in their results. \n  \n— Rob Knop  \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:"CRISPR"
DESCRIPTION:“CRISPR”\n“New Advances in Genetic Engineering: The Nuts\, The Bolts\, Frankenstein Monsters?\, and Ethics” \n  \nIn the last 150 years we’ve had an amazing advancement in our understanding of the genetic code that programs life. While some technologies for manipulating genes have developed in the last few decades\, new programmable systems have been discovered in the past few years. Developed from bacteria\, the CRISPR/Cas systems allow a new level of ease for genetic changes in cells. This presentation will describe the origins of the CRISPR/Cas9 system\, how it works\, applications for its use\, and implications for the future. \n  \n \nDr. Stephen L. Gasior \nPrevious work in the Library \nPrevious work in the Film Collection \n  \n  \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first.
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