Doug Welch is an astrophysicist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. His research areas include supernovae, dark matter, variable stars and the extragalactic distance scale. He received his PhD (Astronomy and Astrophysics) from the University of Toronto and was a National Research Council of Canada Research Associate at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, BC. He became a faculty member at McMaster in 1988.

Doug has been a member of the Science Team of both the MACHO and SuperMACHO Projects and he mines the enormous databases of images and brightness records created by these efforts to identify astrophysically-interesting systems for further analysis. He has been a Co-Investigator on several successful Hubble Space Telescope proposals and is a frequent user of offshore international facilities such as the Gemini Observatory.

In addressing important cosmological questions with forefront observatory instrumentation, he has always been impressed with how many unexpected discoveries come out of the research.

Doug Welch's home page

This is a free public lecture.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture begins at 7 p.m.
Hamilton Specator Auditorium
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