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Contact: Ericca R. Clark (reynoldse@nsula.edu)
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
11/13/2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES -Arlo U. Landolt, professor of astronomy at Louisiana State University, will be speaking at Northwestern State University Monday, Nov. 17. This visit is sponsored by the NSU's College of Science and Technology and is part of the Harlow Shapely Visiting Lectureship program.
Landolt will lecture at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 123 of Fournet Hall on the NSU campus. He will discuss comets, eclipses, extraterrestrial life, gravity waves, telescopes, meteorites, missing mass, neutron stars, black holes, planets, pulsars, quasars and neutrinos. Landolt will feature illustrations of stars, solar evolution and the galaxy.
Landolt will be available for discussions and questions after each talk. He will also be available Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. in Room 111 of Fournet Hall for additional questions.
The Visiting Lectureships Program of the American Astronomical Society is a program of two-day visits by professional astronomers to college campuses designed to bring the excitement of the modern astronomer's view of the cosmos to any host institution.