Jacob Hamer
Assistant Curator, NJ State Museum Planetarium
TBA
June 10th, 2025
Assistant Curator, NJ State Museum Planetarium
TBA
June 10th, 2025
TBA
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June at Peyton HallThe June 2025 meeting of the AAAP will take place Tuesday, June 10th at 7:30 PM. The location will be the planetarium at the NJ State Museum in Trenton, NJ. The club’s custom for many years has been to travel to the planetarium for the last meeting of the academic year. The meeting will feature a sky tour of the Spring and Summer constellations, and a special showing of the planetarium’s new show from the American Museum of Natural History, “Worlds Beyond Earth.” Meetings at the club’s customary venue, Peyton Hall on the campus of Princeton University, will resume in September.
Options for Attending the MeetingPlease note that the meeting will take place at the planetarium of the NJ State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ. There is plenty of free parking behind the museum, next to the planetarium entrance.
This is an IN-PERSON ONLY event; you must be present at the planetarium to view the sky tour, experience the planetarium show projected onto its dome by the museum’s recently refurbished projection equipment, and participate in the meeting’s agenda. There will be no option to Zoom at this meeting, nor will there be a recorded version to play back later.
“Meet the Speaker” DinnerThere is no "Meet the Speaker" dinner this month.
How To Participate:
In PersonZoom YouTube A look ahead at future guest speakers:
| Date | Featured Speaker(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
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Emeritus Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |
“Why a Universe Devoid of Extraterrestrial Life is Quite Plausible” A discussion of why there’s little foundation for the popular expectation that life in the universe may be common. |
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Assistant Professor in Physics, Villanova University |
Prof. Phillipson is an astrophysicist who leverages statistics, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning to study the explosive and highly variable characteristics of exotic astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Thanks to Bill Thomas for suggesting this speaker. |
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Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University |
Prof. Teyssier’s main research activity is to perform simulations of cosmic structure using supercomputers in order to understand the origins of stars and galaxies. |
As always, members’ comments and suggestions are gratefully accepted and much appreciated.
