Date:   September 9, 2008 (Tuesday)
Time:   3:30 pm EDT (refreshments at 3:20 pm)
Place:  Green Bank Auditorium
         (Video: CV-230)

Speaker:  Jay Lockman, NRAO-Green Bank

Title:  "Recent Discoveries by the GBT"

Abstract:

In the last five years the GBT has gone from first operations to being the
telescope most in demand of all NRAO telescopes.  I will present some of 
the discoveries that have been made with the GBT, and will try to make the 
talk accessible to the general Green Bank staff -- technicians,
programmers, accountants, painters -- who have done so much to make the
instrument a success.  I will describe, in non-technical terms, some of the 
advances the GBT has made in our understanding of the Moon and planets, of 
how the Milky Way came to be, and how stars are made.  I will end with 
some speculation about the discoveries that the GBT may make in the next 
few years, including the search for gravity waves and the chemistry of life 
elsewhere in space.

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