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SUMMARY:HYBRID – General Meeting – July 2023
DESCRIPTION:TAAA’s next general member meeting will be held on Friday\, July 7\, 2023. The Main Presentation will start at 6:30 P.M. This will be a hybrid meeting (both in person and on social media). TAAA members will receive a Zoom link should they wish to attend remotely. The public may attend in person or online through our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TucsonAstronomy/. It will still be posted to YouTube afterwards.\nTitle:  The Shocking History of A Giant Lens!\n\n\n\nPresentation:  Walking though your high school or college hallways you’re likely to find tchotchkes\, curios\, and relics of the past. Good chance you’ve passed them every day and never given a second glance. In this presentation\, Max Lipitz asks the question: what if you did take that second look? And what if that curio was a giant camera lens that for the past decade sat unassumingly on the 3rd floor\, of the northwest corner\, of the Rochester Institute of Technology\, (RIT) Carlson Center for Imaging Science Building (CIS)? The scuttle bug around the center was that it was built in support of the U-2 (Dragon Lady) spy plane program begun in 1955. However\, that is far from the truth and the reality is far more astounding…as Max’s talk will reveal. \n\n\n\nBio:  Maxmillian (Max) Lipitz could best be described as a strange amalgamation of NASA obsession\, photographic prowess\, and insatiable curiosity. In his attempt to acquire empirical knowledge\, he has accumulated thousands of useless facts over a period of decades. This has led him to be an oddball graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technologies Imaging Science Program; a highly interdisciplinary field that combines physics\, math\, computer science\, and engineering. Whether it’s developing image processing algorithms to turn people into Simpsons characters or restoring a 31-year-old digital camera just because\, Max puts his whole heart into everything he does. In the past he’s worked with Dr. Robert Kremens to develop next-generation probes (“Kremboxes”) to monitor wildfires in the thermal and visible spectrum\, providing valuable data that could save thousands of lives. Currently Max works as a scientist at Tucson-based GEOST\, developing ground and space based electro-optical systems.
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LOCATION:Steward Observatory Lecture Hall (Room N210)\, 933 N Cherry Ave\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85721\, United States
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