John Gizis
This is a personal blog by John Gizis. I am a professor of astronomy.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
What good are brown dwarf planets? Let's ask Iain Banks
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From Iain Bank's novel The Hydrogen Sonata: There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of ton...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
White House Astronomy Night 2015
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The White House is having its annual astronomy night on October 19, 2015.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Physics Careers: Founding Computer Science
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Today's New York Times has an obituary of Joseph Traub : Joseph F. Traub, who founded the computer science department at Columbia Unive...
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Astronomy and Physics Job Statistics
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I am preserving these links to job statistics, but maybe you will find them useful too. AIP report on Astronomy jobs : This 2015 report inc...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
LSST approved for construction
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LSST approved for contruction . I am working this week at the LSST Cadence workshop.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
President Obama's Introduction to Cosmos
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
AAS Statement on Scientific Travel
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I agree completely with this new statement from the AAS. As a personal example, when I, not wanting to travel so much, stopped going to conf...
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