The University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Physics & Astronomy, in conjunction with the Central Missouri Astronomical Association , presents:

"Cosmic Conversations" is a lecture series hosted by the Department of Physics & Astronomy in conjunction with the Laws Observatory and the Central Missouri Astronomical Association. Scheduled at 7 pm the first Wednesday of each month in room 120 of the Physics building, the topic of each talk relates to the cosmos; why we see the Moon the way we do, how to take night-time photos, how meteors relate to global extinctions, how did early Native Americans see the sky and a host of other topics in which the heavens play a role.

The Laws Observatory will be open following each presentation for viewing of the night-time sky (weather permitting).

SCHEDULE
Winter/Spring 2008

February 6th 2008	Craig Kluever	A Personal History of NASA Projects
March 5th 2008	Adrian Corman	Lives & Deaths of Stars
April 2nd 2008	Ken MacLeod	It Came from Outer Space: Recent controversies regarding the K/T boundary
May 7th 2008	Larry Brown	Cosmic Reflections on the Cultural Landscape

SCHEDULE
Summer 2008

June 4th 2008	...	American Astronomical Soc. meeting, St Louis!
July 2nd 2008	David Arrant	Saturn: Lord of the Ringspwd
August 6th 2008 Anniversary of Hiroshima Bomb	Angela Speck	Nuclear processes in the cosmos

SCHEDULE
Fall 2008

September 3rd 2008 US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully landed on Mars on this day 1976	Alan Whittington	Mars!
October 1st 2008	Rainer Glaser	Prebiotic synthesis of biological moelcules in interstellar space
November 5th 2008	Mark Volkmann	Misconceptions in Astronomy (Title TBA)
December 3rd 2008	Rita Reed	Night Time Photography

Past talks
(2007)

October 3rd 2007	Angela Speck	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Moon, But Were Afraid to Ask
November 7th 2007	Todd vanPool	Man and Woman Circle the Hearth: Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest
December 5th 2007	Val Germann	Telescopes: How they work and what you can see with them

speckan@missouri.edu

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