Hi Everyone, I received this from a co-worker and it appears that everyone is invited. I won’t be able to attend but perhaps some of you further south would be able to go. It looks very interesting. Clear skies, Dale. From: IEEE eNotice [mailto:enotice@ieee.org] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:58 PM To: bdutson1@comcast.net<mailto:bdutson1@comcast.net> Subject: SP/COM Meeting Announcement! [https://enotice.vtools.ieee.org/assets/enotice_header-ff02508d0d24b310c506f2...] Dear Utah Section IEEE Members: This is the first announcement for an upcoming meeting on signal processing in radio astronomy. The meeting will be held at BYU, the remaining meeting details are below. All are invited ... hope to see you there! Michael Rice mdr@byu.edu<mailto:mdr@byu.edu> Date: Friday 31 October 2014 Time 12:00 noon - 1:00 PM (talk), light refreshments served at 1:00 PM. Location: 256 Clyde Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 Speaker: Duncan Lorimer, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, West Virginia University Title: Pulsars, flickers and cosmic flashes: the transient radio universe Abstract: in this talk, I will describe a brief history of discovery and some exciting recent developments in the world of pulsars and fast radio bursts. Pulsars, rapidly rotating highly magnetized neutron stars, were discovered in 1967 and continue to surprise and delight astronomers as powerful probes of fundamental physics and astrophysics. Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of currently unknown origin that were dis- covered in 2007. Both pulsars and fast radio bursts have great promise at probing the universe on large scales and in fundamental ways. I will conclude the talk with a look ahead to the exciting prospects that may be possible in the next five years. About the Speaker: Duncan Lorimer received his PhD in Radio Astronomy in 1994 from the University of Manchester, UK for work on the Galactic population of pulsars. From 1994-1995 he was a lecturer in Radio Astronomy in Manchester. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute fuer Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany, from 1995-1998 before moving to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico as a staff scientist from 1998-2001. He returned to Manchester as a Royal Society Research Fellow from 2001-2006 before settling at WVU in 2006. During his time at WVU, he has held a Cottrell Scholarship (2008-2011), re- ceived the WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching (2010) and a Woodburn Professorship (2011-2013). ________________________________ IEEE Utah SP01/COM019 Chapter: http://sites.ieee.org/utah/ To unsubscribe from IEEE Utah SP01/COM019 Chapter eNotices, visit the IEEE Communications Preferences web page at https://www.ieee.org/profile/commprefs/showcommPrefpage.html<http://na05.mypinpointe.com/link.php?M=36661622&N=27746&L=54716&F=H> and uncheck the "Local IEEE section and chapter e-mail communication" option. [https://enotice.vtools.ieee.org/assets/enotice_footer-6de2ffb78b95c2d6d4d7bc...] Click here to unsubscribe<http://na05.mypinpointe.com/unsubscribe.php?M=36661622&C=6e5bc116e66902a52c8f466e77bd538a&L=7402&N=27746>