Tour of Duty in the High Desert at VERITAS, by Dr Josh Reynolds - 2022-10-10

Dr Paul (Josh) Reynolds is a lecturer in both the Department of Physical Sciences and the Department of Computing of Munster Technological University (MTU) in Cork, Ireland. He is also an Instructor, Cyperops Associate, and Instructor, CCNA Security, for Cisco Networking Academy. He specialises in Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy; Computer Security; Computer Networking, Modelling and Simulation; and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Josh has a long academic record, being a graduate from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1985 with a BSc (Hons) in Experimental Physics, followed in 1989 by a PhD in Astrophysics during which he spent a year at the Whipple Observatory in Arizona as a Post Graduate Fellow for the Smithsonian Institution. He became a Lecturer in electronics to Master of Applied Physics at UCD in 1990, but soon returned to the United States to spend two years at Iowa State University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.

He became a Lecturer at Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Dublin, in 1992, then took up his current position in 1998 as Lecturer in the Department of Physical Sciences and Department of Computer Science at what was then Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), now part of MTU. He has also been an External Examiner for the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and the Dublin Institute of Technology, and is also an Instructor at the Cisco Networking Academy.

In this presentation, at Cork Astronomy Club's regular public lecture at University College, Cork (UCC) on 10 Oct 2022, and simultaneously streamed on Zoom, Josh talks about his research in Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy as part of the VERITAS collaboration. VERITAS is the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System, a ground-based gamma-ray instrument operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in southern Arizona, USA. It is an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV - TeV (giga electron volt to tera electron volt) energy range. These imaging Cherenkov telescopes are deployed such that they have the highest sensitivity in the VHE energy band (50 GeV - 50 TeV), with maximum sensitivity from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. The observatory effectively complements NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which has been in orbit since 2008.

(https://ie.linkedin.com/in/paul-josh-reynolds-5501a13a)
(https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/)

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#Astronomy #Cork_Astronomy_Club #Cork #Ireland #Gamma_Ray_Astronomy #VERITAS #Munster_Technological_University #MTU #Very_High_Energy_Gamma_Ray_Astronomy

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