Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 9, 2001

Volume 29, Number 18

'Space Odyssey' is topic of next Tetelman Lecture

Roger Blandford, the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, will visit campus Wednesday-Friday, Feb. 14-16, as the Tercentennial Tetelman Fellow.

Blandford will first present the Tetelman Lecture on the topic "2001: The Space Odyssey" at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday in Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect St. He will discuss how the capability to operate telescopes from space has revolutionized our view of the universe, and touch on surprising recent discoveries involving black holes and neutron stars.

A master's tea titled "A Conversation with Roger Blandford" will take place on Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Jonathan Edwards College master's house, 70 High St. The following day, Blandford will participate in a meeting of the Physics Club. The discussion on "New Horizons in Black Hole Astrophysics" will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 57, Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St., and will be preceded by coffee at 3:30 p.m. in the third-floor Sloane lounge. All three events are free and open to the public.

A fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Blandford is a recipient of Guggenheim and Sackler fellowships, the Helen B. Warner and Dannie Heineman prizes from the American Astronomical Society, and the Darwin Lectureship and Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society.

The Tetelman Fellowship at Yale was endowed in 1979 by Damon Wells of the Class of 1958 in memory of his friend and classmate Alan S. Tetelman, who died in an air crash in 1978. The fellowship honors distinguished individuals who have made a significant contribution to science.

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