
Montana Williams, New Mexico Tech – Tuning into the Universe: The Science of the Very Large Array
THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT
Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this lecture, featuring our speaker joining us remotely. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom, but we’d love to see you in person in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards.
Tuning into the Universe: The Science of the Very Large Array
WAS Welcomes Montana Williams, a 5th-year Ph.D. student at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, NM, the same town home to the array operations center for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO) Very Large Array. Most of her time is dedicated to imaging non-thermal emission from classical novae using NRAO’s Very Long Baseline Array, or, as she likes to say, “looking at cute star explosions.” She is also a tour guide at the VLA, where she facilitates public tours so everyone can enjoy radio astronomy and the “cute antennas.”
