News Release

ESCC Campus

Cerro Coso ESCC Presents Speaker on Astronomy

October 23, 2007

Dr. Kartik Sheth from California Institute of Technology, the Spitzer Science Center, and the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) near Big Pine, will be giving a talk at the Cerro Coso Community College Eastern Sierra College Center, Bishop Campus on Thursday, October 25, 2007. Dr. Sheth's presentation entitled, "Bars in the Universe" will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Room 176. The College is co-hosting this speaker series in the field of Astronomy.

If you were to look out on a clear night and count all the galaxies outside our Milky Way - what would they look like? How would you begin studying them? What is the most common type of galaxy? Dr. Sheth will address these questions and give a preview of extragalactic research with an emphasis on what we can accomplish with telescopes like CARMA in combination with other ground- and space-based telescopes.

Dr. Sheth did his undergraduate studies at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. He received his Masters in Physics from the University of Minnesota and a Masters and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Maryland. He is a postdoctoral fellow with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Group at Caltech. He spends his spare time volunteering for Peace over Violence in Los Angeles.

This talk is for a general audience and all students and community members are invited to attend. The Cerro Coso College, Bishop Campus is located at 4090 West Line Street.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Joann Handeland, Director of Public Information (760) 384-6230