December 2, 2016 7-9PM

Event Type: Lecture and Stargazing
Title: ALMA: A Revolutionary New View of the Cosmos
Lecturer: Nick Scoville
Position: Professor
Institution: Caltech
Abstract:
ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter telescope Array, has just come into operation in Chile. This array of 66 linked high-frequency radio telescopes is the most technically challenging telescope ever built, now providing views of the skies never before seen and at higher resolution than even the Hubble Space Telescope. I will give a travelog to the ALMA site high in the Andes Mountains and discuss some of the exciting science discoveries it has already made.