Zoom and In-person at UW Physics Building. Please join us for an evening with Dr. Adam Smercina, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Dr. Smercina's research includes how galaxies form and evolve, from the smallest dwarf galaxies to large galaxies like the Milky Way. Using gas content, resolved stellar populations, and satellite populations of galaxies roughly the size of our Milky Way to understand how they change over time, ... more

Zoom and In-person at UW Physics Building. Please join us for an evening with Dr. Adam Smercina, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. Dr. Smercina's research includes how galaxies form and evolve, from the smallest dwarf galaxies to large galaxies like the Milky Way. Using gas content, resolved stellar populations, and satellite populations of galaxies roughly the size of our Milky Way to understand how they change over time, ... more

We welcome Andrea Kunder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics at Saint Martin's University. She will be speaking with atendees about her research on the stars near the center of the Milky Way and what that research can tell us about the formation of our galaxy. Every month SAS meets for our general meeting commonly featuring a guest speaker and presentation via zoom. As always, our monthly general meetings are open to both SAS members and the public. We hope to see you online and/or ... more

Please join us for our November General Meeting. Board Elections will take place at the beginning of the meeting, so please try to attend! We are pleased that Lori Beerman, who is a sixth year graduate student in the UW Department of Astronomy, will provide our guest presentation. Her abstract is provided as a note below.

We know that the spatial distribution of matter just after the Big Bang was nearly uniform, yet at the present day it is far from uniform. We live in a galaxy that is much denser than most regions in the Universe-and in a very dense place within our galaxy. UW astrophysicist Matt McQuinn will describe the physically intuitive steps by which small matter fluctuations transformed into galaxies, stars, and planets. He'll show computer simulations which do a remarkable job at producing ... more