Summary of the

60th birthday celebration for

Prof. Jay M. Pasachoff

at Williams College

on

Saturday, June 28, 2003

 

2 p.m.: Symposium of talks given by astrophysics alumni; Thompson Physics and Astronomy Lab, 2nd Floor Large Lecture Room

5 p.m.: Reception at the Chapin Library of Rare Books; Pasachoff collection on view

 

Alumni of the Williams College astronomy program and friends, relations, and colleagues are invited to the day's activities,

as are spouses and children.

 

Photos of the Event!

Eclipse Expeditions, 1959-2003, with Pictures of Students, Staff, and Others

Students and Staff on Expeditions

Astronomy & Astrophysics Majors

Alumni Attending

Program of talks:
Stuart Vogel '75, University of Maryland
     CARMA: Imaging the Cool Universe
Wayne Roberge '76, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
     Fire and Ice: Shock Waves in Protoplanetary Disks
Eric Pilger '82, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
     Remote Sensing of Thermal Surface Events from Space
Brad Behr '92, University of Texas
     A New Spin on Old Stars
Kevin Reardon '92,  Italian National Astrophysical Institute, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence
     IBIS and EGSO: Building Real and Virtual Solar Instruments
Timothy McConnochie '98, Cornell University
     Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer: Atmospheric Observations
Laura Brenneman '99, University of Maryland
     Assessing the Accretion Disk Environment in NGC 4593 with XMM-Newton
Dan Seaton '01, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
     Observing the Sun at Eclipses and from Space

Rare-book Exhibition:

The Heavens Revealed:

Classics of Astronomy from Ptolemy to

Copernicus to Einstein.

May 12 through September 12, 2003

 

A display of important books in the history of astronomy, from the collection of Professor Jay M. Pasachoff, in honor of his 60th birthday this summer and the beginning of his 32nd year of teaching at Williams College. Works to be on view include first editions of the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy (1515), De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543), Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei (1610), and Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler (1609), as well as Albert Einstein's paper Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitátstheorie (1916). Also to be shown are the Pasachoff copies of great and beautiful celestial atlases by Bayer (1603), Doppelmayr (1742), Bevis (1750/86), Flamsteed (1776), and Bode (1801). The Pasachoff books will be supplemented in the display by Chapin Library holdings, including a second Copernicus and the rare Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest by Regiomontanus (1496).