CMSO student wins Churchill Scholarship
Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
Lecoanet, who worked on the internal dynamics of stars at UW-Madison, says he intends to pursue theoretical physics in grad school. "In theoretical physics, you have the opportunity to understand the essence of what's going on. There is this process of distilling a lot of experimental information into one clean idea," he says.
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Bridging Laboratory & Astrophysics: Frontiers in Plasma Astrophysics
May 23-27 2010 Miami Florida

The 216th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society will host a Meeting within a Meeting on this topic. The 6 sessions will be:

• Hydrodynamics of Supernovae and Jets in Astrophysics and the Laboratory
• Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysics and the Laboratory
• Relativistic, Strongly Magnetized Plasmas in Astrophysics and the Laboratory
• Charged Dust in Space and Laboratory
• Astrophysical MHD in Experiment and Theory
• The Magnetorotational Instability in Astrophysical Disks and Laboratory

See www.aas.org to be led to meeting information. Steve Spangler is the lead organizer.