The Smithsonian Associates'
Physics and the Universe

Summer 2000 Smithsonian Institution Resident Assoicate short course on Physics and the Universe registration information

Schedule of Lecturers

Virtual Laboratory Experiments

Astronomy Course Sites of Interest:

Mathematics review sites:

Other Astronomy/Space Sites of Interest:

Here are links to pages related to a Mars project which dealt with the discovery of microbial life on a meteorite with Mars origins and my team's efforts to simulate the temperature conditions on Mars billions of years ago and how that would effect the development of life (particularly the size of the microbes) at that time.

Additional links related to the Mars modeling project:

First test run using SGI f77: Output file
FORTRAN program for calculating Temp vs. Lat: MARSMAIN.FOR
FORTRAN subroutine for displaying Mars data: MARS1.FOR
FORTRAN subroutine for displaying Earth Temp vs. Lat: MARS2.FOR
FORTRAN Subroutine for displaying Mars Temp vs. Lat: MARS4.FOR
FORTRAN Subroutine for displaying Solar flux: SUNFLUX.FOR
Solar output data : SO.DAT
FORTRAN Subroutine for displaying Mars Temp vs. Lat: MARS6.FOR
Numeric Model Approach to Mars Climate :: Symbols Defined for Model
Crater Coordinates :: Modeling Mars climate in time
A review of Mars, which includes a more elaborate introduction to the concepts required to model the Mars climate.
A FORTRAN routine whose output is the temperature on Earth vs. latitude: SUN2.FOR
1997 Mars Conference :: The Whole Mars Catalog
Information on random number generators
Read a news release about the possible source crater for the meteorite believed to be from Mars and having possible fossils produced by a microbial-like lifeform. But there is disagreement here.
Even Congress held a hearing about the possibility of life on Mars.
Read an article on-line from The American Scientist called The Evolution of the Martian Climate
The Center for Mars Exploration at Ames Research Center :: at UCSD :: at SI :: A reference list

Miscellaneous Links

Link to the academic section of Masonlink: GMU Student Information
Link to the Institute for Computational Science and Informatics: CSI
Link to the Center for Earth Observations and Space Research: CEOSR
Potomac Geophysical Society (local meetings with speakers that discuss astronomy as well as earth science): PGS
Association of Science and Technology Centers: ASTC
Learn what a consulting synthesist does: A consulting synthesist
A personal view of a geophysicist
A different view of global change or not
Take a break: West End Dinner Theater
Enjoy some rock music with the Virginia Coalition
Do some EMC measurements: Carl T. Jones Corporation
Find an old classmate at Alumni.Net or at Classmates.Com

And finally you may want to mail me here
And then there's the old fashioned contact method of telephone:
At GMU: 703-993-1276 Office Telephone in ST1 Rm328C

The Smithsonian Associates' Physics and the Universe

Schedule of Lecturers

10 July 2000 Physics from the Small to the Large - Harold Geller

17 July 2000 Understanding the Solar System - Michael Summers

24 July 2000 The Life and Death of Stars - John Evans

31 July 2000 Life and the Universe - Mitchell K. Hobish

7 August 2000 Einstein, Bell and the Conscious Universe - Menas Kafatos