July 13-14, 2018 NORTHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Home 2018 WRAP-UP This year's Conjunction was dedicated to long-time Conjunction attendees John Davis and Richard Scott, both of whom passed away earlier in the year. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as you gaze skyward. Photos by Phil Harrington click on each to enlarge   Home

 

Saturday morning program 10:00 AM Fifty Years of Astronomical Adventures: My Own Personal Top-10 List by Richard Sanderson Saturday afternoon program 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM A Star-Filled Tribute to Dr. Richard Scott and John Davis featuring Lynne Scott and Ed Faits. The Next Great American Eclipse by Phil Harrington An Old-School Machinist’s Version of the Classic Dobsonian Telescope by Dave Kelly Saturday evening address 7:30 PM Unveiling the Enshrouded Universe with the Large Millimeter Telescope by Grant Wilson, PhD Grant Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts. He completed his graduate work in physics at Brown University, where he studied cosmology by building balloon-borne instruments to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background - the oldest radiation in the Universe. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1997, he did postdoctoral work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Chicago, where he worked on specialized experiments in the field of observational cosmology. Professor Wilson transitioned from early-Universe cosmology to studying the astrophysics of galaxy and star formation when he came to UMass in 2001. He has since won the College Outstanding Teacher Award, discovered many hundreds of new galaxies with the millimeter wavelength AzTEC camera, chairs the Science Advisory Board of the Large Millimeter Telescope, and now leads a multi-national collaboration of scientists in the building and deployment of the TolTEC camera. Prof. Wilson currently lives in Windsor, CT with his wife and four children.

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