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This is the regular monthly meeting of the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers, held in the Radnorshire Room at the Radnor Community Building.  The meeting is open to DVAA members and the public.  We start with a short business meeting focusing on announcements and upcoming events, followed by a featured presentation.  We gather beginning at 7pm; the program and the livestream begin at 7:30pm.

The meeting will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel beginning at 7:30pm. 

Featured presentation:   Dr. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Associate Professor, Drexel University. 

“Seeing the Universe from the Earth's South Pole”

The Universe has been studied using light since the dawn of astronomy, when starlight captured the human eye. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, observes the Universe in a different and unique way: in high-energy neutrinos. What are neutrinos? How are they different from light? What are the merits of "neutrino astronomy," as we call our field? These questions and more will be answered in this talk that explains the cutting edge science emerging at the boundaries of astronomy and particle physics. Finally, a spectacular first observation of our Milky Way in "not light" was announced in June 2023. This result and its impact will be explained to showcase the exciting science happening at Drexel. 

Professor Kurahashi Neilson's research centers on high-energy neutrinos, high-energy particle astrophysics and particle physics. Kurahashi Neilson's efforts are mainly involved in the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory. She also contributes to BL3, a next-generation beam neutron life-time experiment, and P-ONE, the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Observatory, an ocean neutrino telescope. Kurahashi Neilson earned her PhD by listening acoustically to extremely high-energy neutrinos in the Bahamian ocean. Her research group at Drexel works to resolve high-energy neutrino sources in the sky.

 

Observing talk:  Jeremy Carlo on Winter Observing