Refreshments at 3:45pm, talk begins at 4pm Abstract: Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with phenomenal rotational stability that can be used as celestial clocks in a variety of fundamental…

…Westborough, Mass., a suburb west of Boston, where the night sky offered clear views of distant stars. A third-grade project on space sparked Simcoe’s interest in observation, and he saved…

…West Virginia and detected gravitational lenses. As a professor, he challenged his students on and off campus before retiring in the mid-1990s. “Bernie was my PhD advisor, and he taught…

…of prescribed, zonally asymmetric torques in the tropical and subtropical upper troposphere. Prescribed westward tropical torques are shown to produce a pattern of tropical ascent that is well described by…

…the help of Loesner’s family. The young family fled to Prague and then emigrated to New York City, where Weiss grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, cultivating a love…