NASA Cosmologist in the House: Jonathan Gardner

• public talk: A Scientific Revolution: the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
• more technical: The James Webb Space Telescope

Superluminal Neutrino Update

• as predicted, new research papers aplenty already here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here
• Illinois weighs in Fermilab MINOS experiment

Galactic Rotation Curve

• the data

Milky Way Dark Matter

• What the heck is it?!?
• Case study: white dwarf dark matter
  • predictions: we see omlettes, so where are the broken eggs?
  • tests: HST non-observation and of dim halo white dwarfs
    other troubles
• favorite candidate today: exotic relic particles
  underground detection experiment

Galaxies

Some History

• What he heck are these nebulae? are they like these nebulae?
• Curtis-Shapley debate (1920)
• Hubble (the man) discovers a cephied in M31
• Hubble (the telescope): Cephieds in M100
  the recordholder: NGC 4603