Blogs of Professor(Dr.) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya MD(calcutta.Univ) Pathology; : The Kavali foundation

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THE 2012 KAVLI PRIZES IN ASTROPHYSICS, NANOSCIENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MAY 31ST BY THE NORWEGIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS. A live webcast (8:15-10:00am EDT) includes the announcements from Oslo, as well as a special Kavli Prize program from the World Science Festival in New York, featuring opening remarks by John P. Holdren, Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.

Following the announcements, three extraordinary scientists will discuss the winning achievements, as well as research in their fields: Astrophysics - Claire Max, University of California, Santa Cruz: Nanoscience - Angela Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Neuroscience - Thomas Jessell, Columbia University. More Information

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Friday, March 29 Noon-12:30 PDT

"Starbursts in a Young Universe"

Ask Your Questions of Research Team Members John E. Carlstrom,

Dan P. Marrone and Joaquin D. Vieira

The Milky Way today may fire up one new star every year, but billions of years ago, a subset of galaxies in the relatively young universe were producing new stars at a rate of 1,000 per year.

Recently, a multi-national team of astronomers found that these galaxies were churning out starsmuch earlier than once believed - as early as one billion years after the Big Bang, nearly 13 billion years ago. Now, three members of this team answer your questions about starburst galaxies, the early universe and the research being conducted by the South Pole Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array(ALMA) in Chile.

John E. Carlstrom - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as Physics at the University of Chicago, and Deputy Director of the UChicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP). Prof. Carlstrom is an observational cosmologist who studies the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). He is also leader of the 10-meter South Pole Telescopeproject, which recently completed a survey of 2,500 square degrees of the sky, and is now conducting a survey of the polarization of the CMB.

Dan P. Marrone - Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. Prof. Marrone is interested in galaxy clusters, galaxy formation in the early universe, and the physics of the supermassive black hole in our galaxy, Sagittarius A*.

Joaquin D. Vieira - Leader of the group studying the galaxies discovered by the South Pole Telescope, Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and member of Caltech's Observational Cosmology Group. Dr. Vieira is interested in studying galaxy evolution at very high redshifts, the first stars and galaxies, and the evolution of large-scale structures in the universe.