Centennial Science Week
Join us for CSM's Centennial Science Week!
The main event is Family Science Day on Saturday, September 24, but the fun continues
all week through Friday, Sept. 30!
Family Science Day
Saturday, September 24, 2022
12 pm - 11 pm
Science Building 36 & Theatre Building 3
| Time | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 12-6 pm | Science workshops and planetarium shows Science demonstrations by CSM faculty; astronomy workshops by SMCAS, SLAC, and KIPAC; planetarium shows, telescopic observation of celestial bodies, and much more! |
Science Building 36 |
| 1-4 pm | Makerspace at Family Science Day The CSM Makerspace welcomes you to our free, drop-in crafting and tinkering workshops. Join us for hands-on projects and skill-sharing in electronics, crafts, media, and more! |
Science Building 36 |
| 7 pm | Keynote Lecture NASA’s Greatest Observatory and its Great Science! The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most complex and powerful astronomical space observatory ever built. It launched on Christmas Day in 2021 and has recently been commissioned in its final orbit in the Sun–Earth system. The large 6.5-meter diameter JWST primary mirror and its infrared instruments will allow it to see some of the very first luminous objects that formed in the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. Other major science themes of JWST encompass studying the assembly of galaxies, the birth of stars and planetary systems, and planetary systems and the origins of life. |
Theatre Building 3 |
| 8:45 pm | Reception | Theatre Building 3, Lobby |
| 9:15 pm | Telescopic Observations | Science Building 36, Rooftop Observatory |
Dr. Thomas Greene
Thomas Greene is an astrophysicist in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. He conducts observational studies of exoplanets and young stars and develops astronomical technologies and instrumentation.
Dr. Greene is a co-investigator on the NIRCam and MIRI science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope and serves on the JWST Users Committee. While at NASA Ames he has served as the Director of the Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies, Project Scientist of the SOFIA mission, and Chief of the Astrophysics Branch.
Before joining NASA, he worked at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center on NASA astrophysics missions. Prior to that, Dr. Greene was on the faculty of the University of Hawaii where he was a support astronomer and later Director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona.
