Everyone is welcome to attend the talk! It will take place at 3:30 pm on Friday. This week’s speakers will present via Zoom.
May 6th — Claire Murray ’11 and David French ’11: “How to put telescopes in space and make them work: supporting Hubble, JWST and beyond”
After graduating from Carleton in 2011, we both pursued PhDs in Astronomy. However, following the post-PhD path in research has led us to unique careers outside of traditional academia. In this talk, we will share how our interests and research choices led us to the Space Telescope Science Institute, a science operations center for flagship NASA space missions. David works for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, calibrating and enabling new modes to help extend the lifetime of the instrument into the 2030s.Claire works for the archive branch, assembling and curating repositories of space telescope data, including ongoing commissioning data for the recently-launched JWST. We’ll discuss how the skills we learned at Carleton Physics, including programming, data science, communication (and resilience), prepared us to help put telescopes into space and keep them running smoothly.