It's Not Rocket Science: How First-Year Students Can Build Tools to Understand the Universe

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How old are the Sun and other stars? Astrophysics has the reputation of being inaccessibly hard, but in fact the ideas for learning how the Universe works are often quite easy to formulate and to understand. Join me to learn how you can measure the ages of star clusters, using tools developed by first-year students at Ohio State in a newly-launched course titled Astronomy Data Analysis.

Presenters:

Don Terndrup

Associate Professor

Department of Astrononmy

The Ohio State University

terndrup.1@osu.edu

A faculty member at Ohio State since 1990, Don Terndrup is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy. His research focuses on several areas of observational astrophysics, particularly the application of advanced computational and statistical techniques to understand the physics of outflows in stars and quasars. Terndrup is engaged in new course development, and in the revision of existing course, to expose students to computation and data analysis at critical times in their studies.

It's Not Rocket Science: How First-Year Students Can Build Tools to Understand the Universe

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