Public Lecture (free)
Presenter: Dr. Janice Voss, NASA Ames Research Center.
Poultry Science Auditorium, 7:00 PM

Kepler is a spacecraft scheduled to be launched in November, 2008, and will look for habitable planets (Earth-size planets in the habitable zone) around distant stars.  Dr. Voss will describe the design and expected results from the (nominal) four-year mission.

* The University of Arkansas chapter of the Arkansas Women in Statistics and Mathematics is working with the space center to facilitate this public lecture.  The Arkansas Women in Statistics and Mathematics (AWSM, pronounced "awesome") was created in 2002 as a support and discussion group for female students and faculty involved in the mathematical sciences. Women are still a minority in the scientific community worldwide: among AWSM's chief goals is to foster, encourage and promote the participation of women in the hard sciences at the University of Arkansas.  For more information on AWSM, please click here.