Far Out Journal Club Episode 4 with Guest Emily Levesque

     From the outer limits of the Milky Way, the Alachua Astronomy Club brings you the Far Out Journal Club. Produced by Rich Russin and hosted by past president Terry Smiljanich, the goal is to have a personal, in-depth visit with the authors, artists, musicians, and other cultural icons who bring us the vast world of cultural science and science fiction. 

     The Far Out Journal Club is back for Season 2. Our first guest will be the award-winning author and astrophysicist Emily Levesque. Her book, The Last Stargazers is an instant classic. Her engaging dialogue takes you behind the scenes of some of the most powerful scopes in the world to reveal what it is really like to drive these machines.

     Here is a quote from Kirkus Reviews: “From the lonely quiet of midnight stargazing to tall tales of wild bears loose in the observatory, The Last Stargazers is a love letter to astronomy and an affirmation of the crucial role humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery.”

Please join us for a casual evening with program host Terry Smiljanich and guest Emily Levesque.

Emily Levesque Ph.D. Astronomy

Associate Professor, University of Washington

Biography:

     I’m an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. My research combines observations and theory to explain how the largest (and weirdest!) stars in the universe evolve and die.

     I was most recent a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. I’ve received the American Astronomical Society’s 2023 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, the 2020 Newton Lacy Pierce prize, and the 2014 Annie Jump Cannon award. I’m also a 2019 Cottrell Scholar, a 2018 Kavli Fellow, and a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. From 2010 to 2015 I was a Hubble and Einstein postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I received my astronomy PhD at the University of Hawaii in 2010 and my S.B. in physics from MIT in 2006.

     My first popular science book, The Last Stargazers, shares the tales and experiences of astronomical observing. I’ve also written two academic books: a professional text on red supergiants and a graduate textbook on stellar interiors and evolution written with co-author Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers.

The Last Stargazers

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