SUO First Light Program

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Special thanks to the Willard L. Eccles Foundation and the Katherine W. Dumke & Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Foundation, for their generous donations which made this observatory possible.

First Light

••• The Department of Physics & Astronomy would also like to acknowledge the following individuals & organizations for their invaluable support & expertise: The University of Utah The State of Utah Utah Commercial Contractors Mike McHugh (President) Jeff Jacobson (Project Superintendent) Bruce Crotty (Senior Project Manager) DFM Engineering (Telescope Manufacturer) Frank Melsheimer (President) Ian Huss (Production Manager) Richard Neel (Machinist) The Bureau of Land Management Matthew Custer (Realty Specialist) The Center for High Performance Computing Joe Breen (Network Assistant Director) The Utah Education Network Jeff Egly (Associate Director) Brad Miller (Field Engineer) Beaver County Rob Adams (Economic Development Director) Craig Davis (Zoning Administrator) Donald J. Willden (Chairman, County Commissioners) and Paul Ricketts, Harold Simpson & Chris Zimmer.

www.physics.utah.edu/suo

Dedication

Willard L. Eccles Observatory at Frisco Peak

Construction

November 11, 2009 James Fletcher Building The University of Utah Completion


SCHEDULE

Department Astronomers Adam Bolton

Assistant Professor bolton@physics.utah.edu

4:00 pm - 103 JFB

Welcome

Ben Bromley

Professor bromley@physics.utah.edu

Prof. Paolo Gondolo Director – Astronomy, Astrophysics & Cosmology Institute

History of Astronomy at the University of Utah

Messier 81 Galaxy

Prof. David Kieda

Chairman – Department of Physics & Astronomy

Paolo Gondolo

Professor paolo@physics.utah.edu

Willard L. Eccles Observatory at Frisco Peak

Prof. R. Wayne Springer Associate Professor

Inese Ivans

Assistant Professor iii@physics.utah.edu

Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Prof. Kyle Dawson

Dave Kieda

Assistant Professor

Concluding Comments & Special Thanks

Veil Nebula

Professor kieda@physics.utah.edu

Stephan LeBohec

Prof. Pierre Sokolsky

Assistant Professor lebohec@physics.utah.edu

Dean – College of Science

5:00 pm - JFB Rotunda

Kyle Dawson

Assistant Professor dawson@physics.utah.edu

Wayne Springer

Associate Professor springer@physics.utah.edu

Public Reception

Light refreshments will be served. Frank Van Den Bosch

Associate Professor vdbosch@physics.utah.edu All constellation images in this program and the slideshow presentations were taken at the Willard L. Eccles Observatory at Frisco Peak, UT.

A graduate student working with the pulsed electron Horsehead Nebulaspin resonance facility.

Images courtesy of Harold Simpson & Paul Ricketts


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