Ken Emerson Concert

Description

The Music of the Spheres concert series gives the public a chance to experience Lick Observatory at night!

Activities include a musical performance, an astronomy talk by a world-renowned scientist, viewings through both the historic 36-inch Great Lick Refractor telescope and 40-inch Nickel Reflector telescope, a fascinating talk about Lick Observatory's rich history, after-hours gift shop access, light refreshments, and astronomy discussions with amateur astronomers using their own ground telescopes.

Concert by:
Ken Emerson

Ken Emerson is one of the world's most highly regarded traditional Hawaiian Slack Key and Steel Guitarists living today. His unique playing style reflects the Hawaiian guitar's grassroots origins of over a half century ago. For for nearly 40 years Emerson has helped lead the way in resurrecting the traditions of vintage Hawaiian music, tapping into classic Jazz and Blues influences along the way.

Lecture by:
Melissa Graham, UCB
"Cosmic Explosions: Unraveling the Enigma of Supernovae"

Dr. Melissa Graham is an astrophysicist at UC Berkeley who studies supernovae, stellar explosions so energetic they can produce the light of a billion suns. Supernovae exhibit a variety of characteristics, and most of them are in galaxies so far away that even when pre-supernova images exist, the original star cannot be resolved. It is important to understand how stars explode because supernovae release the heavy elements fused in the star's interior so they can form metal-enriched objects like planets, and also because supernovae are used as "standard candles" for cosmological studies of dark energy.

In this talk, Dr. Graham will describe the observational techniques and theoretical physics used to unravel the enigma of how different types of stars create the variety of supernovae we see, with a focus on research efforts currently underway at the University of California's astrophysical facilities: Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton and Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. Dr. Graham completed a B.Sc.H at Queen's University (Canada) and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of Victoria (Canada) and spent three years in a joint postdoctoral fellowship at UC Santa Barbara and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) before moving to a senior postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley.

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http://ucolick.org/summer/music/kenemerson.html

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408-274-5061

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