MƒA teachers can register for this event on the Small-World Network.
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
The MƒA Thursday Think Speaker Series brings accomplished speakers who dive into cutting-edge topics in STEM education to MƒA. These talks, held once a month throughout the school year, invite MƒA teachers and the general public to learn and engage with these thought leaders and professionals in mathematics, science, and education.
It is an exciting time for space science. With several high-profile astronomy mapping missions sharing their findings, scientists have an unprecedented opportunity to explore this new data for the next big discovery about our place in the Universe. In this talk, Dr. Jackie Faherty launches teachers into an immersive tour of the most complete map of the Milky Way Galaxy (and beyond) and guides them on an adventure into nearby stellar systems, exoplanet systems, star-forming regions, and more. Specifically, Dr. Faherty focuses on the distribution of objects within 1500 light-years—including stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets—and discusses how they form and disperse.
Dr. Jacqueline (Jackie) Faherty is a staff scientist and senior educator at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Her research centers on novel techniques for refining the detection and characterization of brown dwarfs, exoplanets, and exoplanet atmospheres. In addition, Jackie is a passionate educator at AMNH, preparing public programs and sharing her love of space with teachers in the Masters of Arts in Teaching program.
