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h1. Webinar - 01/21/2025

This webinar was not recorded.
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h3. Speaker

  • The webinar will begin with Dr. Robert Nemiroff as our special guest speaker. Dr. Nemiroff is a renowned astrophysicist, co-creator of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), and an expert in gamma-ray bursts.

  • His talk will include, "The Great Astronomy Debate of 1995: The Distance Scale to Gamma-Ray Bursts" which discusses how the GRB community used to be divided between a galactic and cosmological setting for GRBs, NASA's APOD, and recent theories of GRBs.

h3. Notes

  • Book Offer: Dr. Nemiroff kindly offered his book, "FASTER THAN LIGHT: HOW YOUR SHADOW CAN DO IT BUT YOU CAN'T", to those interested.
  • Questions: If you have any follow-up questions, feel free to reach out to him directly at nemiroff@mtu.edu
  • APOD: Check out NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/