SJAA General Meeting
this Saturday, August 28th starting at 8 PM.
At the Hall in Houge Park
The SJAA presents Dr. Karel Schrijver
from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center
Speaking on
"The magnetic weather and climate of the Sun and its environment"
Karel Schrijver is senior scientist at the
Solar and Astrophysics group of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center in Palo Alto. He completed his education, including his PhD work,
and the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands. His thesis, entitled
"Stellar magnetic activity; Complementing conclusions based on solar and
stellar studies," laid the foundation for his career, looking both at the
large sample of stars and the detailed case of the Sun. After postdoc
positions at the University of Colorado and at The European Space Agency,
and a fellowship of the Royal Academy of Sciences that brought him back to
Utrecht, he joined the Lockheed Martin solar and astrophysics group, now
almost nine years ago. While at Lockheed, he authored a textbook, with his
former thesis advisor, Cees Zwaan, entitled "Solar and Stellar Magnetic
Activity." He works primarily on data from the Michelson Doppler Imager on
the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and from the Transition
Region and Coronal Explorer; he is the science lead on the Atmospheric
Imaging Assembly for the future Solar Dynamics Observatory. He is a member
of the editorial boards of Solar Physics, Living Reviews in Solar Physics,
and Astronomical Notices. He has been on several NASA strategic planning
teams, and is currently a member of the Space Studies Board of the
National Academies. Karel promises to bring lots of pictures and explain
the latest space probes monitoring the sun. Please join us for an
enlightening evening.
Websites of Interest:
Karel Schrijver's Home Page:
http://www.lmsal.com/~schryver/
LMMS Solar and Astrophysics Lab:
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsites.html
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Directions to Houge Park:
Houge Park is in San Jose, near Campbell and Los Gatos.
>From Hwy.17, take the Camden Avenue exit. Go east 4/10 mile, and turn
right at the light, onto Bascom Avenue. At the next light, turn left onto
Woodard Road. At the first stop sign, turn right onto Twilight
Drive. Go three blocks, cross Sunrise Drive, then turn left into the park.
>From Hwy.85, take the Bascom Avenue exit. Go north 0.2 miles, and turn
right at the first traffic light, onto White Oaks Road. Run another 0.2
miles to the first stop sign, then turn left onto Twilight Drive. You
will now be passing the park. Turn right at the first driveway, into the
parking lot.
See Map at
http://www.sjaa.net/img/houge.jpg
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Clear Skies,
Mike Koop
President, SJAA
Email any comments, questions, or flames to
Koopm at best.com
Received on Fri Aug 27 15:22:24 2004
