July Meeting

Astronomy Above the Antarctic

Flying telescopes on high altitude balloons from the Antarctic provides relatively low-cost access to a space-like environment.  This talk will describe two experiments which have been developed to answer questions about what happened during the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang to how stars form.

Prof. Tucker joined the Brown faculty in 1997. A graduate of M.I.T., he received a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Prior to joining the Brown faculty, he did postdoctoral work at the University of British Columbia and was a physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He grew up in Lexington, MA.