[sfevents] Fwd: [SFAA-ANNOUNCE] SFAA Member Meeting and Lecture, April 15, 2009

[Michael Portuesi]

SAN FRANCISCO AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS’ LECTURE SERIES

Cosmic Origins:
How Unseen Forces Led to the Rise of Stars, Planets, and Carbon-based  
Life
A Presentation by Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
at San Francisco State University
7:30PM, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
AT THE RANDALL MUSEUM THEATER


Join astrophysicist Andisheh Mahdavi for a presentation exploring how  
unseen forces in the universe have led to the rise of stars, planets,  
and carbon-based life.

Dr. Mahdavi is an observational and computational astrophysicist  
focusing on clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound  
cosmic objects. Mahdavi
specializes in marshalling data from orbiting X-ray satellites and  
ground-based optical and radio telescopes to understand the physics of  
dark and ordinary matter in clusters.

What:        San Francisco Amateur Astronomers’ Lecture
                 “Cosmic Origins” with guest speaker Dr. Andisheh  
Mahdavi,  Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SFSU

When:       7:30pm, Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Where:      Randall Museum
                 199 Museum Way, SF, CA

Info:          www.sfaa-astronomy.org

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