Word: cfa
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...president, you’re really the hit person for astronomy,” said Andrea K. Dupree, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) who served as president of the AAS from 1996 to 1998. “You have a chance to speak for the profession and to have influence on where the profession goes...
...faculty member of the CFA and professor of Science A-35, “Matter and the Universe,” Kirshner is currently researching an entity called “dark matter,” which he believes acts directly against gravity and is causing expansion of the universe to accelerate...
...industry that's still struggling with computers." Indeed, high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin her booth's isolation: "It's almost a blessing in disguise, because the people coming back here are really looking...
...Star Parties,” which will begin April 20 and run through May 16, are an attempt by the CFA to engage the community in its work...
...CFA spokesperson Christine E. Lafon said the special alignment is a vivid demonstration that the solar system is formed like a disk...