BLAST! A Film by Paul Devlin
WHO:
Mark Devlin, professor in Penn's Department of Physics and Astronomy and a lead investigator of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, or BLAST.
WHAT:
The 2008 documentary film BLAST! follows a team of scientists hoping to figure out how galaxies form by launching a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Each screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with the film's subject, Mark Devlin. The Penn Science Café lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Café is your chance to ask a leading expert your questions.
WHERE:
Cohen Auditorium, Claudia Cohen Hall
249 South 36th Street
Campus of the University of Pennsylvania
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Screenings at 3:30 and 6:00 P.M.
R.S.V.P. to Jordan Reese, jreese@upenn.edu or 215-573-6604.
In 2005, an international team of researchers, led by Penn's Mark Devlin, launched the most highly sensitive telescope of its kind ever carried by balloon. The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, or BLAST, journeyed from Sweden to Canada, collecting images of the distant light that details the formation of stars and the evolution of whole galaxies.
From the tense liftoff in Sweden to the danger-fraught recovery in the Arctic wastelands of Northern Canada, join us as Dr. Devlin recounts the science and adventure of a space journey that happened right here on Earth.
Contact: Jordan Reese at 215-573-6604 or jreese@upenn.edu.
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