A New Path to New Earths

Press Briefing and Webcast
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
1:00 to 2:00 p.m., ET
ACCESS Center
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Arlington, VA 22205

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		Press Release
		Agenda
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		Michael Turner Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences National Science Foundation Speaker Biography
		Scott Tremaine Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences Princeton University Speaker Biography Substituting for:
		Bohdan Paczynski Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Professor of Astrophysics Princeton University Speaker Biography
		Jean-Philippe Beaulieu Charge de Recherche CNRS Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Speaker Biography
		David Bennett Research Associate Professor, Astrophysics and Cosmology University of Notre Dame Speaker Biography

ANIMATIONS

• Computer simulation of a microlensing event.
  
  
• Animator's conception of gravitational lensing and microlensing events.

See also:

• Pre-print of paper in Nature
  
  
• Discovery: Ogling Distant Stars, Aug. 9, 2004

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