Speaker – Dr. Alex Vrenios.
Topic – “Radio Astronomy”. Beginning with a brief history of Radio Astronomy, he discusses the subjects of Solar Energy, Jupiter’s Radio Storms, Meteor Scatter Communications, Galactic Radio Sources and finally… how to create radio images.
Dr. Vrenios is a retired computer scientist who specialized in the design and development of distributed computing systems. He has dozens of technical presentations and publications to his credit, including a book on Linux clusters. His other interests include astronomy, photography and amateur radio. The program. For other material by him on the subject see:: Conference Paper, Radio Sky Article, and Amateur Radio Astronomy.