BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0c5f694e-7568-4091-99fe-2d70f0cb435a@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261012T002326Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261111T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261111T203000 SUMMARY:Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson DESCRIPTION:Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Bio Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clea r through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson we nt on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. In 2001\, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a twelve-member commission that studied the Future of the U.S. Aeros pace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained reco mmendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation\, space explorati on\, and national security. In 2004\, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a nine-member commission on the Implementatio n of the United States Space Exploration Policy\, dubbed the “Moon\, Mar s\, and Beyond” commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And i n 2006\, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Ad visory Council\, which guides NASA through its perennial need to fit amb itious visions into restricted budgets. In addition to dozens of profess ional publications\, Dr. Tyson has written\, and continues to write for the public. From 1995 to 2005\, Tyson was a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title Universe. And among Tyson’s eightteen books is his memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Ast rophysicist\; and Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution\, co-written with Donald Goldsmith. Origins is the companion book to the P BS NOVA four-part mini-series Origins\, in which Tyson served as on-came ra host. The program premiered in September 2004. Two of Tyson’s other b ooks are the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmi c Quandaries\, which was a New York Times bestseller\, and The Pluto Fil es: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet\, chronicling his exp erience at the center of the controversy over Pluto’s planetary status. The PBS NOVA documentary The Pluto Files\, based on the book\, premiered in March 2010. In February 2012\, Tyson released his tenth book\, conta ining every thought he has ever had on the past\, present\, and future o f space exploration: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier. For five seasons\, beginning in the fall of 2006\, Tyson appeared as the on -camera host of PBS NOVA’s spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW\, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the unde rstanding of our place in the universe. During the summer of 2009 Tyson identified a cadre of professional standup comedians to assist his effor t in bringing science to commercial radio with the NSF-funded pilot prog ram StarTalk. Now also a popular Podcast\, for three years it enjoyed a limited-run Television Series on the National Geographic Channel. StarTa lk combines celebrity guests with informative yet playful banter. The ta rget audience is all those people who never thought they would\, or coul d\, like science. In its first year on television and in three successiv e seasons\, it was nominated for a Best Informational Programming Emmy. Tyson is the recipient of twenty-seven honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal\, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. His contributions to the public appreciation o f the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Unio n in their official naming of asteroid “13123 Tyson.” And by zoologists\ , with the naming of Indirani Tysoni\, a native species of leaping frog in India. On the lighter side\, Tyson was voted “Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive” by People Magazine in 2000. In 2017\, Tyson published Astrophysic s for People In A Hurry\, which was a domestic and international bestsel ler. This adorably readable book is an introduction to all that you’ve r ead and heard about that’s making news in the universe—consummated\, in one place\, succinctly presented\, for people in a hurry. That was follo wed in 2018 by Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophys ics and the Military\, coauthored with Avis Lang\, in 2019 by Letters fr om an Astrophysicist\, both New York Times Bestsellers\, and in 2021 by Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are\, How We Got Here\, and W here We are Going\, coauthored with James Trefil. Tyson served as Execut ive Science Editor and on-camera Host & Narrator for Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey\, the 21st century continuation of Carl Sagan’s landmark televi sion series. The show began in March 2014 and ran thirteen episodes in p rimetime on the FOX network\, and appeared in 181 countries in 45 langua ges around the world on the National Geographic Channels. Cosmos won fou r Emmy Awards\, a Peabody Award\, two Critics Choice awards\, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions. Tyson reprised his role as on-came ra host for the next season of Cosmos—Cosmos: Possible Worlds\, which pr emiered on the National Geographic Channel in March 2020 and on the FOX network in September 2020. Tyson’s latest books are Starry Messenger: Co smic Perspectives on Civilization containing his life’s wisdom on the in tersection of science literacy and culture and To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery\, coauthored with Lindsey Nyx Walker\, both New York Times bestsellers. In 2024\, Tyson published Merlin’s Tour of the Universe\, a 21st century update of his very first book\, a playful Q&A on the universe conducted by Merlin\, a visitor from Andromeda whose task is to help Earthlings understand how the universe works. The book is illustrated by his artist brother\, Stephen J. Tyson. Tyson leads the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural His tory in New York City where he is the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose Directorship. He is also a research associate of the Museum’s Depa rtment of Astrophysics. Neil deGrasse Tyson lives in New York City with his wife\, a former IT project manager with Bloomberg Financial Markets. \n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/dr-neil-degrasse-tyson-madison -wisconsin-11-11-2026/event/0700648217A5C23C\n\nhttps://findlocal.commun ity/event/0c5f694e-7568-4091-99fe-2d70f0cb435a LOCATION:Orpheum Theater\, 216 State Street\, Madison\, WI 53703 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/0c5f694e-7568-4091-99fe-2d70f0cb435 a STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR