An Evening With Neil deGrasse Tyson

Presented by Books & Books, Miami Book Fair, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and Adrienne Arsht Center

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Dates

October 3, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Venue

Knight Concert Hall

Run Time

60 minutes

Parental Guide

All ages

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the No. 1 best seller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, among other books. He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he has served since 1996. Dr. Tyson is also the host and co-founder of the Emmy-nominated podcast StarTalk and its spinoff StarTalk Sports Edition, which combine science, humor and pop culture. He is a recipient of 21 honorary doctorates, the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and the Distinguished Public Service Medal from NASA. Asteroid 13123 Tyson is named in his honor.

Dr. Tyson will be in conversation with Dr. Doug Roberts, vice president, science education and director of the Frost Planetarium at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, and introduced by Mitchell Kaplan.

His new book, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization, is included with the purchase of each full-price ticket.

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Moderator

Doug Roberts, Ph. D.

Vice President, Science Education and Director of the Frost Planetarium

Doug Roberts, Ph. D. joins Frost Science with more than two decades of experience bringing together informal science education and academic research. One of the areas of intersection between science and education is that of scientific visualization. Dr. Roberts has lead visualization efforts for researchers at previous jobs at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, as well as the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Most recently, he led the technology efforts at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, planning huge updates to its Omni theater.

Dr. Roberts grew up in Kansas and was always interested in astronomy and science. His passion for technology was given direction to support his astronomy research efforts on the radio, which he did at the University of Oklahoma and at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

Although science education and public engagement takes up most of his time, Dr. Roberts is also engaged in active research using telescopes like the Very Large Array radio telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope to better understand the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Looking up at the stars still gives Dr. Roberts a thrill and the next best thing to going to space.

An Evening With Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Moderator

Doug Roberts, Ph. D.

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