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A Priest Walks Into A Bar (3/16)
Thomas Lees presents Prophets & Zombies: Apocalypses as Social Critiques
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/16/2016 5:50:00 PM
ACR Picking Cotton: Mythbusting Incarceration (20160902-00019)
This year's All-College Read is Picking Cotton. Picking Cotton is a powerful book dealing with issues of sexual assault, racism, wrongful conviction, incarceration and ultimately forgiveness. This panel discussion deals with incarceration.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/27/2016 3:55:00 PM
All College Read Guest Speaker (20160705-00034)
All College Read Guest Speaker (20160705-00034)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/19/2016 2:55:00 PM
Astronomy in Chile: Clear Skies, Monster Scopes, and Astrotourism
Jack Howard (Rowan-Cabarrus Community College)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/7/2020 8:25:00 PM
Astronomy Lecture: Tom Brown
Astronomy Lecture with Tom Brown
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/6/2015 11:55:00 PM
Barbara Becker “’I am almost certain…’: William Huggins and the First Attempts to Measure Stellar Motion in the Line of Sight”
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/3/2018 8:25:00 PM
CFL Speaker Series Presents Katherine Moore (20180103-00001)
Katherine Moore, daughter of Katherine Johnson, featured in the boor "Hidden Figures" speaks and answers questions about her mother's experiences at NASA, helping put the first Americans into space.
Lai'Anna D Martin
2/27/2018 4:55:00 PM
CFL Speaker Series: Daniel Gray, also known locally as "Uncle Cheesecake" (20190909-00037)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/22/2019 4:00:00 PM
CFL Speaker Series: Jared and Katie (20220329-00009)
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/7/2022 3:00:00 PM
CFL Speaker's Series Please Join us as We Answer One of Life's Most Essential Questions... (20160205-00014)
How does Facebook know I am shopping for that?
The Communication and Foreign Language (CFL) Department is proud to present a panel discussion on the "behind the scenes" aspect of social media. Our panel of experts is comprised of Kevin Lee, Claire McCaskill, and Renard Spratling. This presentation includes three social media discussions: Social Media, Friend or Foe?; Consumer Marketing, and Managing Your Message; as well as a question and answer session with the audience to conclude the presentation.
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/30/2016 2:55:00 PM
Class Speaker: Mental Health Resources (20190206-00004)
Lai'Anna D Martin
2/15/2019 4:00:00 PM
Communication Speaker Series: Luka (20190821-00002)
GTCC is pleased to welcome Luka Kinard to speak with our students, faculty, and staff about the growing vaping epidemic. Luka has been traveling around the country explaining his story and the dangers of vaping, garnering attention from national media and publications. In this presentation, Luka will detail the financial, academic, and health costs associated with the practice of vaping. Please view this important discussion on this emerging health and societal crisis.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/12/2019 4:00:00 PM
Conflict in Africa - Dr. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (20180808-00023)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/24/2018 4:00:00 PM
Constitution Day
Constitution Day guest speaker - Kathy Manning
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/17/2021 3:50:00 PM
Cybercrime Speaker Series: Adam Scholtz (20220112-00017)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/29/2022 4:00:00 PM
Cybercrime Speaker Series: Ron Horn (20220210-00008)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/14/2022 4:00:00 PM
David Baron: Nature’s Grandest Spectacle: How, Where, and Why to View the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
TriStar kicks off with “Nature’s Grandest Spectacle: How, Where, and Why to View the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse,” a lecture by David Baron, science journalist, author, and broadcaster. Baron is a long-time eclipse chaser and author. In the course of his reporting, Baron has visited every continent and earned some of the top honors in journalism. His written work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Outside, Lonely Planet, and Reader’s Digest.
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/3/2017 11:55:00 PM
David Charbonneau: How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet
Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planet candidates around other stars. The recent announcement of an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, highlights the fact that these other solar systems are common. Watch as one of the pioneering scientists in the field of exoplanet detection and characterizations shares the details of this exciting research. GTCC’s Cline Observatory and the GTCC Foundation present the 2016 Jo Cline Astronomy Lecture, “How to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet,” by Dr. David Charbonneau.
The NASA Kepler Mission taught us that Earth-sized planets are a commonplace throughout the Galaxy. But did life take root on any of these distant worlds? Using upcoming large telescopes, astronomers will search the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for the telltale chemical fingerprints of life. For more information about Charbonneau and his projects, visit: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dcharbon/Site/Welcome.html.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/23/2016 11:25:00 PM
Debris Fields in the Solar System- Patrick Miller, Hardin-Simmons University
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/5/2016 6:45:00 PM
Disability Rights NC (20161216-00017)
Disability Rights NC (20161216-00017)
Lai'Anna D Martin
2/1/2017 5:25:00 PM
Dispatches from a Dark Universe
There’s more to the Universe than we can see -- even more than we can ever see. I’ll give a tour of the edges of our knowledge of the cosmos, including where the frontiers are, and what might remain unknowable forever. Come for the Big Bang, stay for the possibility of the ultimate destruction of all of reality!
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/13/2018 11:00:00 PM
Domestic Violence Presentation (20190918-00008)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/11/2019 4:30:00 PM
Domestic Violence Speaker (2014-AAFOFV)
Domestic Violence Speaker (2014-AAFOFV)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/30/2014 3:55:00 PM
Don Winget: A Close-up Look at White Dwarf Stars: From Kiloparsecs to Centimeters
Don Winget, University of Texas-Austin
White dwarf stars, dubbed "Impossible Stars" by Eddington, are the simplest stars with the simplest surface chemical compositions known. We will examine the potential offered by the white dwarf stars in the context of both astrophysics and fundamental physics. This potential includes studying cosmochronology--establishing the age and evolutionary history of our galaxy and an independent lower limit on the age of the universe, constraining the properties of axions and WIMPS in the context of dark matter models, constraining dark energy by establishing the properties of the massive progenitors of type Ia supernovae, studying nucleosynthesis from their internal composition structure, and crystallization in dense Coulomb plasmas, among many others.
Realizing this tremendous scientific potential depends on the determination of two boundary conditions for each star: the surface gravity and effective temperature. To do this, we must establish the photospheric plasma conditions, density and temperature, using observations of the stellar absorption spectra. Our understanding of line broadening appears to be an obstacle, at present. We will discuss the evidence for past theoretical inadequacies in line broadening theory and the hope for recent and future calculations.
We will discuss how the experiments underway on the Z-facility at Sandia National Laboratories --where we can create macroscopic uniform plasmas under white dwarf photospheric conditions-will provide the benchmarks for improving our understanding of line broadening under white dwarf photospheric plasma conditions. These experiments will guide future theory and improve our understanding of the white dwarf stars and all we can learn from them.
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/6/2013 1:30:00 AM
Donovan Domingue “The Universe at a Longer Wavelength: Lessons from the Infrared”
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/3/2018 3:55:00 PM
Dr. John De Beer South Africa Presentation (20200107-00008)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/12/2020 4:00:00 PM
Founders Day (20160310-00024)
Did you know that the gazebo that decorates the front of our Jamestown campus was once a bus stop for nurses? Did you know that our lovely little lake was originally built for a family to use for fishing and swimming? Did you know that our little farmhouse on the front of the property is protected by legal documents? If any of these facts “intrigue” you, please watch this presentation on GTCC’s fascinating roots.
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/1/2016 3:55:00 PM
Founder's Day Speaker
Founder's Day Speaker- Berri Cross (2014-AAFGDL)
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/3/2014 1:58:00 PM
Friends of the Library Welcome Carole Weatherford (20160511-00009)
GTCC Friends of the Library present Author Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrator Jeffery B. Weatherford. Co-Sponsored by GTCC’s Office of Organizational Development, the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Early Childhood Club.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/21/2016 3:55:00 PM
From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe, and How We’ll Learn More with the James Webb Space Telescope- Dr John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. He was Principal Investigator for the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which was used to show that the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per million (ppm), confirming the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy. For this work he shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/23/2017 1:25:00 PM
Gabriela Gonzalez Einstein: Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Other Matters
Cline Observatory and the GTCC Foundation present The 2018 Jo Cline Memorial Astronomy Day Lecture "Einstein, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Other Matters" by Dr. Gabriela González, LSU/LIGO
About the Talk: More than a hundred years ago, Einstein predicted that there were ripples in the fabric of space-time traveling at the speed of light: gravitational waves. On September 14 2015, the LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana in the US registered for the first time ever a loud gravitational wave signal traveling through Earth, created more than a billion years ago by the merger of two black holes. Several other gravitational waves from black holes were detected, including one by LIGO and the Virgo detector in Europe produced by two neutron stars giving birth to a black hole, generating also electromagnetic waves (light!) detected by many telescopes, and helping us understand the origin of gold. We will describe the history and details of the observations, and the gravity-bright future of the field.
About the Speaker: Gabriela González is a physicist working on the discovery of gravitational waves with the LIGO team. She was born in Córdoba, Argentina, studied physics at the University of Córdoba, and pursued her Ph.D. in Syracuse University, obtained in 1995. She worked as a staff scientist in the LIGO group at MIT until 1997, when she joined the faculty at Penn State. In 2001 she joined the faculty at Louisiana State University, where she is a professor of physics and astronomy. She has received awards from the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since it was funded in 1997, served as the elected LSC spokesperson in 2011-2017, and is known for participating in the announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves in 2016. Her work has focused on LIGO instrument development (especially reducing noise sources and tuning alignment systems) and LIGO data calibration and diagnostics, critical to increasing the astrophysical reach of data analysis methods.
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/21/2018 11:30:00 PM
Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravitational Waves Astronomy
Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravitational Waves Astronomy
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/22/2018 1:30:00 PM
Guest Speaker: Deonna Kelli Sayed
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/2/2017 3:30:00 PM
Halloween Book Event: Looking for Lydia: The Thirty-Year Search for The Jamestown Hitchhiker
Join authors, Michael Renegar and Amy Greer as they discuss their new book.
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/30/2018 4:00:00 PM
In the Grip of the Big Telescope Age: From Herschel to Hale
David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/7/2020 6:55:00 PM
Jay Pasachoff: "Stellar Society Lecture: Transits of Venus"
Noted astronomer Jay Pasachoff gives a lecture, “Transits of Venus: Science and History.” Perhaps the rarest scheduled astronomical event comparable to human lifetimes is a transit of Venus. Not a person on Earth was alive when the previous transits occurred before the 2004-2012 pair. Pasachoff will describe the interesting history of transits, from Jeremiah Horrocks's view of the first observed one in 1639 through Captain Cook's voyage to Tahiti for the transit of 1769 and through the current efforts. With support from the National Geographic Society, he extensively observed the 2004 transit from Greece and the 2012 transit from Haleakala, Hawaii. He also used the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini Mission at Saturn to observe transits seen on other solar-system bodies.
Jay Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. and chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. He is the world’s most distinguished researcher of solar eclipses and has observed 58 eclipses of the sun during his career. Pasachoff has received the Education Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Janssen Prize of the Société Astronomique de France. He’s also the author of the popular “Petersen Field Guide to the Stars and Planets.”
Pasachoff’s lecture is presented by GTCC’s Student Astronomy Club, The Stellar Society, whose mission for the past decade has been to support public outreach activities at Cline Observatory.
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/28/2014 11:00:00 AM
Jesus Nebot: Issues Impacting Immigration (20180618-00021)
The Global Education and Literacy Committee has partnered with Student Life to present our International Education Week and Hispanic Heritage Month keynote speaker, Jesus Nebot, to discuss his experiences as a former undocumented immigrant and to bust some myths about immigration in this 2018 International Education Week event: “Illegal Immigration: A Humanitarian Perspective”
This social justice presentation will allow the audience to transcend their limited beliefs and obtain a wider perspective about how to deal with one of the greatest social challenges of our time. You will:
1. Get real facts about the origin and history of illegal immigration and its current economic and social impact in the US.
2. Voice your opinion and find out what politicians and newscaster are not telling you.
3. Gain greater understanding for people on all sides and explore effective, comprehensive and long lasting solutions that you can help implement to make a difference in your community.
Sponsored by the Global Education and Literacy Committee and GTCC International Students Association
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/26/2018 4:00:00 PM
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Reflections on the Discovery of Pulsars
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/4/2014 1:30:00 PM
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The Last and Next 100 Years in Astronomy
For our eighteenth annual GTCC Fall Astronomy Day Lecture, presented by Cline Observatory and the GTCC Foundation, we are excited to bring Jocelyn Bell Burnell for a voyage of discovery through “The Last and Next 100 Years in Astronomy”. Professor Bell Burnell’s story is well known – as a graduate student she made one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the last century, and her advisor won the Nobel Prize for the research. Since then she has been widely recognized for her work, and has served in many leadership positions in the major professional societies in her field.
Additional details about the lecture are available in the attached document or at: http://www.gtcc.edu/observatory/speaker-seriesncam.aspx
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/3/2014 11:30:00 PM
Mid-Morning Presentation
Mid-morning presentation
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/4/2014 3:00:00 PM
NC Astronomers Meeting (20150106-00029)
Lai'Anna D Martin
10/3/2015 1:00:00 PM
One City, One Book / All College Read Event: Hidden Figures Author Visit - Margot Lee Shetterly (20170712-00021)
Meet Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of the New York Times bestselling book and inspiration for the blockbuster movie Hidden Figures. She is also the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor to recover the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers at the NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s. She is a native of Hampton,Virginia and graduate of the University of Virginia.
Sponsored by the All College Read Committee
Lai'Anna D Martin
9/28/2017 3:00:00 PM
OSIRIS-REx Arrival at Asteroid Bennu
Mike & Larry Puzio (OSIRIS-REx Ambassadors)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/2/2019 2:15:00 PM
SPECIAL ALTERNATE UNIVERSE VIRTUAL LECTURE Presentation by Steve Desch (ASU)
When 'Oumuamua passed by Earth in October 2017, the only thing certain about it was that it was not from this Solar System. Because of its high velocity, it was the first confirmed interstellar object. The next year the object 2I/Borisov was the second confirmed interstellar object.
But whereas Borisov behaved very much like a comet (albeit an unusual one), mysteries remain about what 'Oumuamua actually is. Although it pushed away from the Sun by a rocket effect, like comets, it could not be made of water, or contain much carbon monoxide or dust, making it very unlike a comet. The acceleration it experienced was very large, and from the variations in sunlight it reflected, it was more elongated than any other solar system object: either a very skinny pancake or a very long cigar.
Dozens of explanations have been proposed to explain these oddities, and speculation has run rampant, with some astronomers even suggesting it was alien technology. The truth is more mundane but no less exciting.
In a paper we've recently submitted, my colleague Alan Jackson and I demonstrate that 'Oumuamua is consistent in every way with being a small fragment resembling the surface of Pluto. Our own solar system must have ejected trillions of fragments like 'Oumuamua in its early days, and a population of fragments from the surfaces of Pluto-like exoplanets must be common throughout the Galaxy. 'Oumuamua itself may have been ejected about 400 million years ago, from a Pluto-like exoplanet in a young system in the Perseus arm of the Galaxy. 'Oumuamua is arguably the closest we've ever come to directly observing the surface of an exoplanet.
Steve Desch is a Professor of astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He studies the formation and evolution of planets, the origins of the Solar System, exoplanets, and meteorites. He has written about 'Oumuamua in the popular press and is thrilled to have contributed to our scientific understanding of this unique object.
Lai'Anna D Martin
11/18/2021 12:00:00 AM
Spiral Graph: A Citizen Science Project with a Twist
Patrick Treuthardt (NC Museum of Natural Sciences)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/7/2020 2:25:00 PM
Stellar Society Lecture- Titan: Ingredients for Life by Sarah Hörst
Johns Hopkins University Planetary Scientist Sarah Hörst gives this year’s Stellar Society Lecture "Titan: Ingredients for Life"
About the Talk: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique in our solar system. Below Titan's thick organic haze layer, rivers of methane carve channels into an icy bedrock and flow into large hydrocarbon seas. Across the landscape, water ice mountains and extensive organic sand dune fields are simultaneously alien and reminiscent of Earth. Titan’s lake mottled surface and thick, organic rich atmosphere may be an ideal setting for life as we do not know it and there is certainly much yet to be learned about our own home from the study of Titan.
About the Speaker: Sarah Hörst is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her primary research interest is atmospheric chemistry, particularly the complex organic chemistry occurring in the atmosphere or on the surface of bodies in the solar system. Previously, Dr. Hörst was a NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado. She is a recipient of the Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. She has a BS in Planetary Science and a BS in Literature from the California Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona. Her research page is here: http://www.sarahhorst.com/research.html
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/22/2016 10:50:00 PM
Stellar Society Lecture: Killer Death Rocks from Outer Space! -Michael Solontoi
How close do asteroids and comets come to Earth? Just how common are planetary impacts, and what are the effects? Michael Solontoi, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Lynchburg College, discusses the study of our neighbors in space.
Lai'Anna D Martin
4/17/2015 10:55:00 PM
The AAVSO for the Amateur Community
Dr. Stella Kafka (American Association of Variable Star Observers)
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/2/2019 6:55:00 PM
TriStar Astronomy Day- Morning Session
TriStar Astronomy Day- Morning Session
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/7/2015 2:20:00 PM
Valiant Women of Strength Book Discussion: Incidents in the Life of a Slave (20200116-00006)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave chronicles the true story of Harriett A. Jacobs, a North Carolina slave who overcame a life of bondage to gain freedom, becoming an abolitionist and published author.
Event made possible through collaboration with GTCC’s Student Life; English and Humanities departments; and You Can Vote voter registration drive
Lai'Anna D Martin
3/11/2020 4:00:00 PM
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