The SBAU First Friday meeting July 7, 2023, 730pm will have a presentation by Sahil Hegde of UCLA, a member of the Furlanetto Group looking at the early universe "Cosmic Dawn".  We are guessing the topic will be "Predicting Radio Signals from the First Stars for Lunar Radio Telescopes"


Also, please check out some of our past meetings' video recordings and associated club videos below:

First Friday meeting June 2, 2023, was a presentation by Dr. Robert "Ski" Antonucci, UCSB Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology on "Supermassive Black Holes and Quasar behavior - still Mysterious to us" [click - Youtube recording].  Also, see these articles:
 "Quasars still defy explanation" by Robert Antonucci
"An Identity Problem" UCSB - The Current
Unified model of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN)

Research of Robert Antonucci into AGN's

First Friday meeting May 5, 2023, was a presentation by Joseph Farah, an award winning graduate student at UCSB, also working with the Las Cumbres Observatory.  He is listed as the lead author of the paper describing the imaging of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way using the Event Horizon Telescope.

See more about Mr. Farah here: https://josephfarah.co/#  and the imaging here: https://lco.global/news/Milky-Way-black-hole 
Meeting recorded:  SBAU Youtube...skip first 20 minutes

First Friday meeting April 7, 2023, presentation by UCLA Post-Doc Daniel Gilman, reaching us via Zoom from Toronto, Canada.  He will cover the latest information on Dark Energy and Dark Matter detected using Gravitational Lensing. 
Meeting recorded:  SBAU Channel Daniel Gilman


First Friday meeting March 3, 2023, 730pm, had a presentation by Rafael Stavros Cottom, the Lead Astronomy Programs Presenter at the SBMNH, & President, SBCC Astronomy Club, reviewing research on the first generation of stars of a specific group of metal-poor stars. Meeting was not recorded.


First Friday Meeting, February 3, 2023, presenter was Joseph "Joe" Bassi, Phd, Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, informing us about "Spaceweather".  Meeting was not recorded.


First Friday Meeting, January 6, 2023, presenter was our Outreach Coordinator, Chuck McPartlin, showing how asteroid occultations provide information for NASA missions.  See the meeting and talk here:
https://youtu.be/svPnhShmeXE


First Friday "Members Night" Meeting, December 2, 2022, speakers were SBAU President Jerry A. Wilson on "My New Backyard Observatory" and Vice President Ron Herron, "My Astronomy Questions Needing Answers".  The club's 2023 Slate of Officers for SBAU Members was approved. See the recording: https://youtu.be/nbSXrlILa0w


First Friday November 4, 2022, speaker was Rory O. Bentley, Ph.D., on "The Extreme Realm of the Milky Way's Core!"  See recording on our Youtube AstroUnit channel https://youtu.be/sGfC3T5_9mc .

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Rory-O-Bentley

First Friday October 7, 2022, speaker was Dr. Claudio Campagnari, Chair of the Department of Physics at UCSB.  He described the latest high energy physics at CERN.  View his talk here:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_ns8qr_Kk

http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/claudio/CV_short_2022.pdf

First Friday, September 2, 2022, speakers were our Museum Astronomy Programs Manager, Krissie Cook, and CalTech Post-Doctoral Researcher, Rocio Kiman, gave us a "Grand Tour of the James Webb [Space Telescope findings] Up to now".  View it here:  https://youtu.be/fnVPbjGZ2t0


First Friday August 5, 2022, speaker was Claire Williams of UCLA, speaking on "Recent Supersonic Progress on the Foundation of the First Structures in the Universe" . View at Youtube SB AstroUnit channel:  https://youtu.be/0HolG_9i3GM.

https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~clairewilliams/

First Friday General Meeting, July 1, 2022, was Dr. Rob Zellem on "Exoplanet Atmospheres"

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/301/rob-zellem/

First Friday General Meeting, June 3, 2022, was Ben Darvish on "Evolution of galaxies in diverse environments", see the replay at SB AstroUnit Channel.  

Ben's astrophotography at: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Astrolab/ and his CV-résumé.

First Friday General Meeting, May 6, 2022, was Dr. Timothy Brandt, Asst. Professor, UCSB Physics, presenting "The Mystery of Dark Matter" now saved at the SB AstroUnit Channel. 

See more on Tim: https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~tbrandt/

First Friday "Zoom" Meeting, April 1st, 2022, was Mirek Brandt and his topic was "Weighing Exoplanets, Watching the Star".  A Ph.D. candidate at UCSB working with Las Cumbres Observatory.  See the replay at https://youtu.be/vC75jDooc7U

Also see https://www.mirekbrandt.com/

Our First Friday Meeting, March 4, 2022 was Briley Lewis as our speaker.  Her topic was "How to take an Exo-planet's Picture". See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvxPljD9TY .  She is a NSF fellow and 3rd year graduate student at UCLA, studying Astronomy and Astrophysics. 

Also see:  http://www.briley-lewis.com.


MANY MORE YouTube "SBAstroUnit" meeting videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0r4RxzoyT_pwNcfN5aJsA/videos