13, 2007 7:30pm - The Role of X-ray Astronomy in Modern Cosmology - Dr. Gregory
Poole, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria -
What we can learn from the study of galaxy clusters at x-ray wavelengths?. A
brief review of how X-ray telescopes work and what facilities astronomers
have available to them at X-ray wavelengths.
Presentation (6.1Mb pdf)
Greg recently received the Governor General's Gold Medal, awarded
annually to the Ph.D.
recipient whose thesis was judged to be the best in the whole University of
Victoria over the preceding 12 months. Congratulations Greg!
Bio: I grew-up and fell in love
with astronomy under the dark skies of a small blue-collar farming community
in southern Ontario. I did a physics degree at the University of Waterloo
where I studied the properties of interstellar dust grains for my
undergraduate thesis. I did my Masters in Astronomy at the University of
Toronto where I studied the effects of strong gravitational fields on beams
of light in general relativity. My PhD here at UVic won the Governor
General's Gold Medal. I studied the effects of collisions on the structure
of galaxy clusters. This summer I will be going to the University of
Swinburne in Melbourne, Australia to participate in a large galaxy survey
designed to study the evolution of dark energy in the universe.