The following links will transport within a large table which contains a list of the Joint Colloquium speakers between 1995 and present. Dates with an asterisk are special colloquia.

Colloquium Speaker Archive

Year Date Speaker Institution Title of Talk

1995 Jan. 19 Dr. Michael Fall Space Telescope Science Institute Consequences of Dust in Galaxies at High Redshift
1995 Jan. 26 Dr. Evan Skillman University of Minnesota Primordial Helium: Big Bang Model Constraint or Consistency Check?
1995* May 30 Dr. H. C. Arp Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics New X-ray Observations of Galaxy-Quasar Associations
1995* August 5 Dr. Guenther Hasinger Director, Astronomisches Institut Potsdam News About the X-ray Background
1995 Sept. 7 Dr. Chris Sweden University of Texas A Rosetta Stone for r-Process Nucleosynthesis
1995 Sept. 14 Dr. Puragra Guhathakurta University of California, Santa Cruz Great Balls of Stars: Studying the Density Distribution and Stellar Populations in the Centers of Globular Clusters with HST
1995 Sept. 21 Dr. Mark Dickinson Space Telescope Science Institute Galaxy Clusters and Cluster Galaxies at Z~1
1995 Sept. 28 Dr. Mario Mateo University of Michigan The Surprising Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
1995 October 5 Dr. Gary Hill University of Texas at Austin Infrared Tests of AGN Unification Theories
1995 October 12 Dr. John Norris Mount Stromlo/ Siding Spring Observatories The Enrichment of Omega Centauri
1995 October 19 Dr. Don Terndrup Ohio State University Abundances and Kinematics of Bulge Stars: Where is the Bar?
1995 October 26 Dr. Christoph Keller National Solar Observatory Weak Magnetic Fields in the Solar Photosphere
1995 Nov. 2 Dr. Jacqueline Van Gorkom Columbia University The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments
1995 Nov. 9 Dr. Guy Worthey University of Michigan The Chemical Abundance Pattern in OTHER Galaxies
1995 Nov. 16 Dr. Alex Filippenko University of California/ Berkeley A Search for Low-Luminosity Active Nuclei in Nuclei in Nearby Galaxies
1995 Nov. 30 Dr. Wal Sargent California Institute of Technology QSO Absorption Lines and the Evolution of Heavy Elements
1995 Dec. 7 Dr. Arjun Dey NOAO/ Kitt Peak National Observatory Distant Radio Galaxies: The View from HST and Keck
1995 Feb. 2 Dr. Tad Pryor Rutgers University/ Steward Observatory Testing Models of the Globular Cluster Dynamical Evolution Using Fabry-Perot Velocities
1995 Feb. 9 Dr. Matthew Colless Australian National Observatory Redshift Surveys and Galaxy Evolution
1995 Feb. 16 Dr. Richard Tweedy Steward Observatory Ancient Planetary Nebulae: How Else Are You Going to Probe the Diffuse ISM?
1995 Feb. 23 Dr. Marc Kutner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Molecular Clouds in the LMC: How Does Environment Affect Star Formation?
1995 March 2 Dr. Icko Iben University of Illinois Low Mass X-Ray Binaries and Millisecond Pulsars
1995 March 9 Dr. Tony Marston Drake University Multiple Rings and Wolf-Rayet Evolution
1995 March 23 Dr. Chris Impey Steward Observatory The True Population of Galaxies
1995 March 30 Dr. David Burstein Arizona State University Towards Understanding the Physical Properties of Stellar Systems
1995 April 6 Dr. John Stocke University of Colorado The Local Lyman Alpha Forest: Association with Galaxies Superclusters and Voids
1995 April 13 Dr. Ted von Hippel University of Wisconsin/WIYN White Dwarfs in Open Clusters: The Age of the Galaxy
1995 April 20 Dr. Julianne Dalcanton The Observatories of CIW (Carnegie) Teeming Masses of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
1995 April 27 Dr. Stu Bowyer Center for EUV Astrophysics/ University of California, Berkeley Recent Results from the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
1995 May 4 Dr. Neill Reid California Institute of Technology White Dwarf Masses and Redshifts Revisited
1995 Jan. 11 Dr. Jeff Hester Arizona State University Nebular Microbiology with the Hubble Space Telescope
1996 Jan. 18 Dr. Ken Sembach Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Ionization and Elemental Abundances of Galactic Halo Gas
1996 Jan. 25 Dr. David Sprayberry Groningen What's Really Out There? Searching for Hidden Galaxies
1996 Feb. 1 Dr. Margaret Hanson Steward Observatory Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Massive Stars
1996 Feb. 8 Dr. Doug Rabin NOAO/NSO "Mysteries of the Solar Comosphere"
1996 Feb. 15 Dr. Joan Najita Center for Astrophysics "The Exciting Lives of Young Stars: Origin of Winds and Studies of Protoplanetary Disks"
1996 Feb. 22 Dr. Julio Navarrro Steward Observatory "A Universal Density Profile from Hierarhical Clustering"
1996* March 5 Dr. Matthias Steinmetz Max Planck Institute fur Astrophysik and University of California, Berkeley "Stimulating Galaxy Formation: Progress Failures and Prospects"
1996 March 7 Dr. Neal Katz University of Washington "Simulating Quasar Absorption Lines to Test Cosmological Models"
1996* March 12 Dr. Bill Latter NASA/ Ames Research Center "Photon-Domination of Circumstellar Gas in the Early and Late Stages of Stellar Evolution"
1996 March 14 Dr. Emma Bakes Vassar College "Carbonaceous Grains: The Key to Interstellar Chemistry and Thermodynamics"
1996* March 19 Dr. William Langer Jet Propulsion Laboratory " What Chemistry Tells Us About Protostar Formation"
1996* March 20 Dr. David Wilner Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory "Close Encounters with Protostars: High Resolution Millimeter-wave Imaging"
1996 March 21 Dr. Jordi Miralda-Escude Institute for Advanced Study "Substructure in Dark Matter Halos"
1996 March 28 Dr. Dante Minniti IGPP/ Livermore "The Formation of the Galactic Bulge"
1996* March 29 Dr. Stephen Charnley University of California, Berkeley "Astrochemistry of Star-Forming Regions"
1996* April 2 Dr. Shudong Zhou University of Illinois Searching for Protostars: The Holy Grail of Star Formation
1996* April 3 Dr. Lucy Ziurys Arizona State University Millimeter-Wave Studies of Interstellar Refractory Molecules: From the Laboratory to Evolved Stars
1996 April 4 Dr. Geoff Marcy San Francisco State University Planets Around Solar-Type Stars
1996* April 10 Dr. Sarah Church California Institute of Technology "Probing Omega with Small Scale Measurements of the Cosmic Background Radiation"
1996 April 11 Dr. Al Cameron Harvard-Smithsonian (CfA) Extinct Radioactivity Time Constraints on Star Formation
1996 April 18 Dr. Mauro Giavalisco Carnegie Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts Z>3
1996* April 23 Dr. Bob Williams Director, Space Telescope Science Institute "Research on the Hubble Deep Field"
1996** April 24 Dr. Uli Heber University of Erlangen-Bamberg, Germany "Apparently Normal O and B Stars in the Halo of our Galaxy"
1996 April 25 Dr. Richard McCray University of Colorado/JILA The Impact of SN1987A with its Circumstellar Ring
1996 Sept. 5 Dr. Ken Mighell National Optical Astronomy Observatories The Star Formation Histories of the Local Group Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
1996 Sept. 12 Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand University of California, Berkeley The Structure and Stellar Population of the Orion Nebula Cluster: Understanding the Origin of the Stellar Mass Function
1996 Sept. 19 Dr. Brian Chaboyer Steward Observatory Ages of Globular Clusters
1996 Sept. 26 Dr. Lori Lubin Carnegie Observatories High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies: The Palomar Distant Cluster Survey
1996 October 3 Dr. Marten van Kerkwijk California Institute of Technology "Unique White Dwarfs Accompanying Recycled Pulsars"
1996 October 10 Dr. George Helou IPAC "Early Results from ISO: Galaxies, etc."
1996 October 17 Dr. Tony Tyson AT&T Bell Laboratories "Unlensing the Sky: Exploration of Dark Matter Clumping"
1996 October 24 Dr. Hal Weaver Applied Research Corporation "The Impact of Comet D/Shoemaker Levy 9 with Jupiter"
1996 October 31 Dr. Jim Liebert Steward Observatory "Binary White Dwarfs and Type 1a Supernovae"
1996 Nov. 7 Mr. Mario Hamuy Steward Observatory "Near-Field Cosmology Results from Type 1a Supernovae"
1996 Nov. 14 Dr. David J. Helfand Columbia University "First Scientific Results from First Survey"
1996 Nov. 21 Dr. Susanne Aalto-Bergman California Institute of Technology "Properties and Dynamics of the Cold Gas in Merging and Interacting Galaxies"
1996 Dec. 5 Dr. John Mulchaey The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington "New Insights Into Groups of Galaxies"
1997 Jan. 16 Dr. Eugene Capriotti Michigan State University "Evaporation, Disruption and Orbital Decay of Globular Clusters in a Galactic Halo"
1997 Jan. 23 Dr. Paul F. Goldsmith Cornell University "The Arecibo Upgrade-Status and Scientific Possibilities"
1997 Jan. 30 Dr. Peter Conti University of Colorado "Hot Stars, Starburst Galaxies and the Hubble Deep Field"
1997 Feb. 6 Dr. Arthur Davidsen Johns Hopkins University "Where the Baryons Are: Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium"
1997 Feb. 13 Dr. Crystal Martin Space Telescope Science Institute "The Impact of Star-Formation on the Interstellar Medium in Dwarf Galaxies"
1997 Feb. 27 Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi Carnegie Observatories "High Redshift Neutral Gas: The Interface Between Cosmology and Astrophysics"
1997 March 6 Dr. Thomas Greene IFA, Hawaii "Near-IR Spectroscopy and the Evolutionary Status of Very Young Stars"
1997 March 13 Dr. James Larkin University of Chicago "The Chicago Adaptive Optics System and Prospects for High Resolution Imaging"
1997* March 18 Dr. Andrew McWilliam Carnegie Observatories "Metal-Poor Stars and Chemical Evolution"
1997 March 20 Dr. Abhijit Saha Space Telescope Science Institute "Cepheid Calibration of the Peak Absolute Magnitudes of type Ia Supernovae"
1997 April 3 Dr. Lincoln Greenhill Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Hot Water in AGV-Masers, Accretion Disks, and Jets"
1997 April 10 Dr. Paul Scowen Arizona State University "Recent Results on the Dynamic Nature of the Crab Nebula as Seen with the HST"
1997 April 17 Dr. Chris Tinney Anglo-Australian Observatory "Departments at the Bottom of the Main Sequence"
1997 April 24 Dr. Richard Gott Princeton University "Time Travel and General Relativity"
1997 April 28 Dr. Chris Impey Steward Observatory "Things They Don't Teach in Grad School"
1997 Sept. 4 Dr. Jeff Valenti Kitt Peak National Observatory "Magnetic Fields on Fully Convective Stars"
1997 Sept. 11 Dr. Dany Vanbeveren Vrje Universiteit Brussel "Massive Star Population Number Synthesis Including the Effect of Binaries"
1997 Sept. 18 Dr. Richard Green National Optical Astronomy Observatories "From the Interstellar Medium to Massive Black Hole: First Results from STIS"
1997 Sept. 25 Dr. Ken Freeman Mount Stromlo "Kinematics of the Outer Regions of Early-Type Galaxies from Planetary Nebulae"
1997 October 2 Dr. Richard Wade Pennsylvania State University "Accretion in Cataclysmic Binary Stars: No Such Thing as a Steady-State Disk?"
1997 October 9 Dr. Pat Seitzer University of Michigan "The M31 Globular Cluster System"
1997 October 16 Dr. Tamara Helfer National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Tucson "Dense Molecular Gas in the Milky Way and Other Disk Galaxies"
1997 October 23 Dr. Brian Schmidt Mount Stromlo ?"Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and the Global Geometry of the Universe with Type Ia Supernovae"
1997 October 30 Dr. Dean Hines First Science With Nicmos: (All Steward Observatory) "Bigfoot Stomps on the EGG: NICMOS Early Release Observations of CRL2688"
1997 October 30 Dr. Hua Chen "Proplyds"
1997 October 30 Dr. Susan Stolovy "Violent Outflows in Orion: 2-Micron Continuum and H2 Observations of OMC-1"
1997 October 30 Dr. Varsha Kulkarni "IC5063"
1997 Nov. 6 Dr. Jon Holtzman New Mexico State "Counting Faint Stars in the LMC and Other Nearby Systems: What Can We Learn About the IMF and Star Formation Histories?"
1997 Nov. 13 Dr. Claus Leitherer Space Telescope Science Institute "Starburst Galaxies in the Ultraviolet"
1997 Nov. 20 Dr. Jane Luu Harvard University "Comets and Their Origin"
*1997 Nov. 24 Dr. Stuart Pottasch Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - Groningen (The Netherlands) "On Distances to Planetary Nebulae After Hipparcos"
1997 Dec. 4 Dr. Michael Rauch California Institute of Technology "Sense & Sensitivity: Some Recent Progress with QSO Absorption Lines"
1998 Jan. 29 Dr. Roger Davies University of Durham - United Kingdom "The Star Formation History of Early Type Galaxies"
1998 Feb. 5 Dr. Ray Carlberg Carnegie Observatories "Omega_M from the CNOC Cluster Redshift Survey"
1998 Feb. 12 Dr. Ruth Daly Princeton University "New Methods of Probing Evolution of Structure and Cosmological Parameters"
1998 Feb. 19 Dr. Rachel Akeson Radio Astronomy Lab-UC Berkeley "Sub-arcsecond Millimeter Imaging of Circumstellar Disks"
1998 Feb. 26 Dr. Kem F. Cook IGGP-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Probing the Dark and Luminous Matter Distribution of the Milky Way: The Latest Results from the Macho Project's Microlensing Survey"
1998 March 5 Dr. Michael Meyer Steward Observatory-University of Arizona "The Origins of Stellar Masses: Probing the IMF in Star-Forming Regions"
1998 March 26 Dr. Leo Blitz University of California at Berkley - Radio Astronomy Lab "High Velocity Clouds: Building Blocks of the Local Group"
1998 April 9 Dr. Margaret Meixner University of Illinois-Department of Astronomy "Planetary Nebulae Dustshells: The Fossil Records of AGB Star Mass Loss"
1998 April 16 Dr. Rodger Thompson Steward Observatory-University of Arizona NICMOS Preliminary Results on HDF
1998 April 23 Dr. John Salzer Wesleyan University-Department of Astronomy "First KISS - Preliminary Results from the KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey"
1998 April 30 Dr. Howard Yee University of Toronto "The CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Universe at z~0.1 to 0.6"
1998 May 7 Dr. Jeff Linsky University of Colorado-Boulder "The Solar Wind Not Unique: First Evidence for Solar-Like Atrospheres"
1998 August 25 Dr. Dennis Zaritsky University of California-Santa Cruz "The Magellanic Clouds: A Training Sample for the Extragalactic Universe"
1998 August 27 Dr. Anne Zabludoff University of California-Santa Cruz "A New Look at Poor Groups of Galaxies"
1998 Sept. 3 Dr. Tom L. Wilson Sub-Millimeter Telescope Observatory "Dense Molecular Cores in Orion"
1998 August 17 Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki University of Munich "Hot Luminous Stars and Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy"
1998 August 24 Dr. Roelof de Jong Durham University "The Space Density of Galaxies as Function of Their Luminosity Surface Brightness and Scale Size"
1998 October 1 Dr. Kenneth Johnston US Naval Observatory "The Navy Prototype Interferometer"
1998 October 8 Dr. Roc Cutri Caltech-IPAC ?"The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Results from the First Year of Operations"
1998 October 15 Dr. Charles R. Keeton Steward Observatory "Using Gravitational Lenses to Study Galaxies and Cosmology"
1998 October 22 Dr. Dave Crampton Dominion Astrophysical Observatory "Extragalactic Astronomy with Adaptive Optics: Latest Results from CFHT"
1998 October 29 Dr. Huan Lin Steward Observatory "Results from the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey"
1998 Nov. 5 Dr. Eduardo Martin University of California-Berkeley "News From the Substellar World"
1998 Nov. 12 Dr. Dave Meyer Northwestern ?"Elemental Abundances in the Diffuse Interstellar Gas"
1998 Nov. 19 Dr. Dave Clements Cardiff University/Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale "Cosmological Surveys with ISO"
1998 Dec. 3 Dr. Don Garnett Steward Observatory "Element Abundance Patterns in Star Forming Galaxies"
1998 Dec. 10 Dr. Sue Terebey Extrasolar Research Corporation "A Candidate Protoplanet in the Taurus Star-Forming Region?"
1999 Jan. 21 Dr. Dean Hines Steward Observatory "Misdirected QSOs in the Most Luminous Infrared Galaxies"
1999 Jan. 28 Dr. Patrick Thaddeus Harvard University "Large Carbon Chains in the Laboratory and in the Interstellar Gas."
1999 Feb. 4 Dr. Rebecca Bernstein Carnegie Observatory "The First Measurement of the Optical Extragalactic Background Light"
1999 Feb. 11 Dr. Ian Dell'Antonio Kitt Peak National Observatory "Measuring the Distribution of Mass in Galaxy Clusters via Gravitational Lensing"
1999 Feb. 18 Dr. James Rhoads Kitt Peak National Observatory "Gamma Ray Burst Energetics and Environments from Afterglow Studies"
1999 Feb. 25 Dr. Sangeeta Malhotra Kitt Peak National Observatory "Understanding ISM Energetics from ISO Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Normal Galaxies"
1999 March 4 Dr. You-Hua Chu University of Illinois "X-ray Views of Planetary Nebulae: Hot Stars and Hot Gas"
1999 March 11 Dr. Andreas Eckart Max Planck Institute-Garching (Germany) "First Results from ALFA: The MPE/MPIA Laser Guide Star AO System"
1999 March 25 Dr. Alyssa Goodman Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "What Sculpts the Interstellar Medium?"
1999 April 1 Dr. Michael Meyer Steward Observatory "The Structure & Evolution of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars"
1999 April 8 Dr. Scott Trager Carnegie Observatories "The Timescales of Galaxy Formation: The Stellar Evidence"
1999 April 15 Dr. Ann Boesgaard Institute of Astronomy-University of Hawaii "Rewriting the Chemical History of the Galaxy: Keck Results on the Evolution of Beryllium and Oxygen"
1999 April 21 Dr. Michael Regan Carnegie Institute of Washington "Mass Inflow in Barred Galaxies and its Effect on the Evolution of the Nuclear Regions of Galaxies"
1999 April 29 Dr. Marc Postmas Space Telescope Science Institute "A long time ago in a cluster far, far away . . ."
1999 May 6 Dr. Robert T. Rood Department of Astronomy-University of Virginia "A Potpourri of HST Results Relating to Globular Clusters"
1999 August 26 Dr. Thomas Beckert Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The Inflow/Outflow Connection for Advection-Dominated Accretion"
1999 Sept. 2 Dr. Shoko Sakai National Optical Astronomy Observatories "The Hubble Constant Key Project: Final Results"
1999 Sept. 9 Dr. James Liebert Steward Observatory "Between Giant Planets and Small Stars"
1999 Sept. 16 Dr. Art Code Steward Observatory "Y2K and Beyond - Astrophysics in the 21st Century"
1999 Sept. 23 Dr. Joseph Patterson Columbia University-Department of Astronomy "The Last Rites of Binary Star Evolution"
1999 Sept. 30 Dr. Rosemary Wyse Johns Hopkins University "Dwarf Galaxies and Hierarchical Clustering Models"
1999 October 7 Dr. Tim Pickering Kapteyn Astronomical Institute-Groningen (The Netherlands) "Properties of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies"
1999 October 14 Dr. Kevin Luhman Harvard-Smithsonian-Center for Astrophysics "TBA"?
1999 October 20 Dr. Simon Lilly University of Toronto "Deep Sub-mm Surveys and the Hidden Phases of Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
1999 October 21 Dr. Alex Szalay Johns Hopkins University "The Universe on 100 Mpc Scales"
1999 Nov. 4 Dr. Daniel Eisenstein Institute for Advanced Study-School of Natural Sciences "Precision Cosmology with CMB Experiments and Large Redshift Surveys"
1999 Nov. 18 Dr. Bohdan Paczynski Princeton University Observatory "Gamma Ray Bursts from the Sky"
1999 Dec. 2 Dr. Ivan King University of California-Berkeley "Precision Astrometry: a New HST Gold Mine"
1999 Dec. 9 Dr. Anthony Tyson Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies ?"Weak Lensing Direct Tests of Cosmology"
2000 Jan. 20 Dr. Adam Stanford Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Early-type Galaxies in the HDF-N"
2000 Jan. 27 Dr. Eric Bell Steward Observatory "Exploring the Star Formation Histories of Spiral Galaxies"
2000 Feb. 3 Dr. Don Garnett Steward Observatory "The Pesky Recombination Line Abundance Problem in Planetary Nebulae"
2000 Feb. 10 Dr. Michael Corbin Steward Observatory "Galaxies & QSOs in the NICMOS Parallel Fields"
2000 Feb. 17 Dr. Bruce Hrivnak Valparaiso University "What Have We Learned from Studying Proto-Planetary Nebulae"
2000 Feb. 24 Dr. Harold Butner Steward Observatory-SMT "The Submillimeter Telescope Observatory Science in Y2K"
2000 March 2 Dr. Laird Close Garching (Germany) "Adaptive Optics Observations of Circumstellar Disks and Massive Exo-planet Detection Experiments"
2000 March 9 Dr. David Koerner U. of Pennsylvania "Cosmic Habitability: The Origin and Character of Planetary Systems"
2000 March 23 Dr. Joan Najita NOAO "From Stars to Super-planets: the Low-Mass IMF in the Young Cluster IC348"
2000 March 30 Dr. Richard Mushotzky Goddard Space Flight Center "The X-Ray Background, Black Holes and Chandra"
2000 April 6 Professor Detlev Koester Universit�t Kiel-Institut f�r Theoretische Physik und Astropbysik "Pulsating White Dwarfs"
2000 April 13 Dr. Ben R. Oppenheimer University of California, Berkeley-Department of Astronomy "Cool Atmospheres: Recent Results in Brown & White Dwarfs"
2000 April 20 Dr. Robert Deupree Dynamic Experimentation-Los Alamos National Laboratory "2-D Stellar Evolution of Rotating Stars with Hydrodynamic Convection"
2000 April 27 Dr. Donald Brownlee University of Washington "Rare Earth - Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe"
2000 May 3 Dr. Richard Ellis Cal Tech "The Mass Assembly History of Galaxies"
2000 May 11 Dr. Karl Gordon Steward Observatory "Dust & Radiative Transfer in Galaxies: Doing It Right"
2000 May 17 Dr. Bruce A. Peterson Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories "The Geometry of the Universe"
2000 Sept. 7 Dr. Romeel Dave Hubble Fellow-Steward Observatory "The History of Intergalactic Baryons"
2000 Sept. 14 Dr. Phil Massey Kitt Peak National Observatory "Understanding Massive Star Evolution"
2000 Sept. 21 Dr. Dave Bennett University of Notre Dame-Physics Department "The Detection of Terrestrial Extra-Solar Planets via Gravitational Microlensing from Space"
2000 Sept. 28 Dr. Michael Strauss Princeton University "High-Redshift Quasars, Brown Dwarfs, and Weird Objects: Recent Scientific Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
2000 October 5 Dr. Glenn Schneider Steward Observatory "A Closer Look at Some Nearby Stars: Dusty Disks and Substellar Companions"
2000 October 12 Dr. Andrew Hamilton University of Colorado "The Advent of Precision Cosmology"
2000 October 26 Dr. Adolf Witt University of Toledo "Photoluminescence by Interstellar Nanoparticles"
2000 Nov. 2 Dr. Jeff Hester Arizona State University "The Crab Nebula: The Gift That Keeps on Giving"
2000 Nov. 9 Dr. Robert Kirshner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae"
2000 Nov. 16 Dr. Linda Sparke University of Wisconsin-Madison "Multiply Barred and Lopsided Galaxies"
2000 Dec. 14 Dr. Hans Zinnecker Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam "The Binary Mode of Star Formation"
2001 Feb. 1 Dr. David Soderblom Space Telescope Science Institute "A Look At the Ages of Low-Mass Stars: How They are Measured, and How
They Are Used"
2001 Feb. 8 Dr. Gary Hill U. Texas at Austin "The TEXOX Surveys: Radiosources, Clusters and Large-Scale Structure"
2001 Feb. 15 Dr. Erica Ellingson University of Colorado "The Evolution of Galaxies in Rich Clusters"
2001 Feb. 22 Dr. Roger Angel Steward Observatory "The 20/20 telescope: an interferometric concept for a 30 m Giant Segmente Mirror Telescope"
2001 Mar. 1 Dr. Connie Rockossi University of Chicago "Looking for Globular Cluster Tidal Tails with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
2001 Mar. 8 Dr. Amy Barger U. Hawaii & U. Wisconsin at Madison "Cosmic Census of AGN and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes"
2001 Mar. 22 Dr. Tim Heckman John Hopkins University "Starbursts and Their Winds: A Global Perspective"
2001 Apr. 12 Dr. Mike Brown CalTech "The Edge of the Solar System"
2001 Apr. 19 Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden University in the Netherlands "Gas and Dust in Protoplanetary Disks"
2001 Apr. 26 Dr. Tim de Zeeuw
2001 Sept. 6 Dr. Verne Smith U. Texas at El Paso & McDonald Observatory The Distinctive Chemical Evolution of the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
2001 Sept. 13 None Scheduled
2001 Sept. 20 Dr. Mario Hamuy Steward Observatory Type II Supernovae as Distance Indicators
2001 Sept. 27 Dr. Paul S. Smith Steward Observatory Red AGN Discovered by 2MASS
2001 Oct. 4 Dr. Sylvain Veilleux U. Maryland Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and the Origin of Nuclear Activity
2001 Oct. 11 Dr. Jill Tarter SETI Inst Pulling SETI Signals Out of Cosmic Noise
2001 Oct. 18 Dr. Steve Shectman Carnegie Obs (OCIW) The Magellan Telescopes
2001 Oct. 25 Dr. Jerry Kriss STScI Resolving the He II Lyman Alpha Forest with FUSE
2001 Nov. 1 None (Internal Symposium)
2001 Nov. 8 Dr. Neil Brandt Penn State University The Chandra Deep Field North Survey
2001 Nov. 15 Dr. Abraham Loeb Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe
2001 Nov. 22 None (Thanksgiving)
2001 Nov. 29 Dr. Betsy Barton Gillespie Steward Observatory Interactions and the Evolution of Galaxies
2001 Dec. 6 None (Faculty Retreat)
2001 Dec. 13 Dr. Eva Grebel Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) - Heidelberg, Germany Evolutionary Histories of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group and Beyond.
2002 Jan. 17 Dr. Karl Gebhardt University of Texas (McDonald Observatory/Astronomy Dept.) Supermassive Black Holes: Their Relation to Galaxy Evolution
2002 Jan. 24 Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann MPA-Garching Bulges, Black Holes and Quasars: A Cosmological Perspective
2002 Jan. 31 Dr. Davy Kirkpatrick IPAC/Caltech The Complexities of L and T Dwarfs
2002 Feb. 7 Dr. Julio Navarro University of Victoria Galaxy Formation: A Test of the Small Scale Structure of Cold Dark Matter
2002 Feb. 14 Dr. Frank van den Bosch Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics Disk Galaxies and the Crises for CDM Galaxy Formation Models
2002 Feb. 21 Dr. Xiaohui Fan Princeton University z~6 Quasars from the SDSS: Probing the Reionization Epoch
2002 Feb. 28 Dr. John Monnier Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Imaging with Optical Interferometry
2002 Mar. 7 Dr. Alan Dressler Carnegie Observatory CANCELLED
2002 Mar. 14 None (Spring Break)
2002 Mar. 21 None Scheduled
2002 Mar. 28 None Scheduled
2002 Apr. 4 Dr. Chris Fryer Los Alamos National Laboratories Black-Hole Accretion Disk Engines for Gamma-Ray Bursts
2002 Apr. 11 None (Gillett Symposium)
2002 Apr. 18 Dr. Brian McNamara Ohio University Cluster Cooling Flows in the Chandra Era
2002 Apr. 25 Dr. Aaron Evans SUNY Molecular Gas and the Host Galaxies of Infrared Excess Quasi-Stellar Objects
2002 May 2 Dr. Robert A. Benjamin Univ. of Wisconsin,Madison Galactic Rotation Curves: Adding the Third Dimension
2002 May 9 Dr. Michael Zeilik University of New Mexico Active Learning, Assessment, and Achievement in Astronomy: Transforming the Classroom Environment
2002 May 16 Ms. Ilona K. S�chting University of Central Lancashire The Relation of Quasars to Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters
2002 Aug. 27 Dr. Patrick Hall University Catolica/Princeton BAL Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
2002 Aug. 29 Dr. Harald Ebeling University of Hawaii MACS - the most massive clusters of galaxies in the Universe
2002 Sep. 05 Dr. Wolfgang Duschl University of Heidelberg The formation and feeding of the most massive black holes in the young Universe
2002 Sep. 12 Dr. Pierre Cox Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France Dust and CO Emission from high z Quasars
2002 Sep. 19 General Simon "Pete" Worden Peterson Airforce Base Colorado Springs, Colorado Planetary Defense
2002 Sep. 26 Dr. Neill Reid Telescope Science Institute How unusual are stars with planets
2002 Oct. 10 Dr. Jon Morse   Joint Colloquium Series
2002 Oct. 24 Dr. Martin Lo JPL "Hitchhiking the Planetary Superhighway"
2002 Oct. 31 Dr. Geoff Marcy University of California, Berkeley The Nature of Planetary Systems
2002 Nov. 07 Dr. Mike Gladders The Observatories of the Carnegie Insitution of Washington The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey
2002 Nov. 14 Dr. Harry Shipman University of Delaware Astronomy Education Research...
2002 Nov. 21 Dr. Mike Dopita The Australian National University The Dynamical Evolution of Narrow Line Regions in Active Galaxies
2002 Dec. 05 Dr. Holland Ford The John Hopkins University The Advanced Camera for Surveys: On-Orbit Performance, and New Results
2002 Dec. 12 Dr. William G. Tifft The University of Arizona Redshift Periodicities. The Galaxy-Quasar Connection
2003 Jan. 16 Dr. Andrea Ghez University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy "The Galactic Center: New Results"
2003 Jan. 23 Dr. Xander Tielens The Kapteyn Institute, Department of Astronomy Interstellar PAHs, MAH and grandPAH: A Family History
2003 Jan. 30 Dr. Adam J. Burgasser University of California at Los Angeles "EXTREME! L and T dwarfs"
2003 Feb. 06 Dr. Bob Nichol Carnegie Mellon University "Galaxy Evolution in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
2003 Feb. 13 Dr. Patrick Hall Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile "Red Quasars"
2003 Feb. 26 Dr. Mark Dickinson Space Telescope Science Institute Observing the Assembly of Galaxies
2003 Feb. 27 Dr. Eva Schinnerer National Radio Astronomy Observatory "Gas Dynamics in the Central Kiloparsec: Fueling the Nucleus"
2003 Mar. 06 Dr. Lisa Kewley Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The H-alpha and Infrared Star Formation Rates for the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey."
2003 Mar. 13 Dr. Crystal L. Martin University of California, Santa Barbara "From Stars to the Intergalactic Medium - The Role of Galactic Winds in Enrichment and Ionization"
2003 Apr. 03 Dr. Rita Sambruna George Mason University, Physics and Astronomy "The X-ray View of Radio-Loud Active Galaxies"
2003 Apr. 10 Dr. Charles C. Steidel California Institute of Technology, Department of Astronomy "Baryonic Structure in the High Redshift Universe"
2003 Apr. 17 Dr. Jason Glenn University of Colorado "Probing the High-Redshift Universe with Millimeter-Wave Surveys for Galaxies and Clusters"
2003 May 01 Dr. Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers University of Utrecht, Astronomical Institute "The Formation and Destruction of Star Clusters in (interacting) Galaxies"
2003 May 05 Professor Mark Swain Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Antarctic Planet Interferometer
2003 Sep. 11 Dr. John Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study Solar Neutrinos: An Overview
2003 Sep. 18 Dr. Roc Cutri California Institute of Technology, IPAC "The 2MASS All-Sky Data Release"
2003 Sep. 25 Dr. David Hogg Department of Physics, New York University "150,000 Galaxies and Their Environments"
2003 Oct. 02 Dr. Kathryn A. Flanagan MIT Center for Space Research "A High-Resolution X-Ray Spectrum of SNR E0102-72: X-Ray Astronomy from Your Armchair"
2003 Oct. 09 Dr. Renyue Cen Princeton University Observatory, Department of Astrophysics "Reionization of the Universe"
2003 Oct. 16 Dr. E. Philip Krider The University of Arizona, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics "Current Topics in Lightning Research"
2003 Oct. 23 Dr. Edward A. (Ted) Baltz KIPAC, Stanford University "Microlensing Probes of the Dark Universe"
2003 Oct. 30 Dr. Marcin Sawicki Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada "Probing for Galaxy Evolution in the Distant Universe"
2003 Nov. 06 Dr. Thomas Henning Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie "Formation and Early Evolution of Massive Stars"
2003 Nov. 13 Dr. Sandra Faber UC Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz "The DEIMOS Spectrograph and First Results from the DEEP2 Survey of Distant Galaxies"
2003 Nov. 20 Dr. Gibor Basri University of California, Berkeley, Department of Astronomy "Baby Brown Dwarfs (Very Low Mass T Tauri Stars)"
2003 Dec. 04 Dr. Liliya L.R. Williams University of Minnesota, Department of Astronomy "Weak Lensing of Point Sources: Quasars, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Supernovae"
2003 Dec. 11 Dr. Krzysztof Z. Stanek Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Gamma-Ray Bursts---A Mystery Solved?"
2003 Dec. 18 Dr. Kim-Vy H. Tran Institute for Astronomy, ETH Hoenggerberg Campus "Nature of E+A Galaxies in Intermediate Redshift Clusters"
2004 Jan. 15 Dr. B.T. Draine Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University " What Aligns Interstellar Grains?"
2004 Jan. 29 Dr. Matthew Lehnert Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching "Lyman Break Galaxies at High Redshift"
2004 Feb. 05 Dr. Mordecai-Mark MacLow Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History "The Control of Star Formation by Supersonic Turbulence"
2004 Feb. 19 Dr. Feryal Ozel Department of Physics, The University of Arizona "Neutron Stars as Gravitational Lenses"
2004 Feb. 26 Dr. Matthias Steinmetz Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam "Galactic Archeology: The Formation History of the Galaxy Revealed"
2004 Mar. 04 Dr. Christy Tremonti Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona "The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Insights from 50,000 SDSS Galaxies"
2004 Mar. 11 Dr. Jon Fulbright Carnegie Institutes of Washington, The Observatories "The First Gigayear of the Galaxy"
2004 Mar. 25 Dr. Jason Harris Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona "Stellar Archaeology in the Small Magellanic Cloud"
2004 Apr. 01 Dr. Lyman Page Department of Physics, Princeton University "Results from WMAP and Future Directions in Studies of the CMB"
2004 Apr. 08 Dr. George Rieke Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona "First Science Results from the Spitzer Telescope"
2004 Apr. 15 Dr. Charles Dermer U.S. Naval Research Laboratory "Gamma Ray Bursts and the Origin of the Cosmic Rays"
2004 Apr. 22 Dr. Peter Foukal Heliophysics, Inc. "Surprising New Light on Solar Luminosity Variation and Climate"
2004 Apr. 29 Dr. Christopher D. Martin California Institute of Technology "The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results from the First Year"
2004 Sep. 06 TBD TBD "TBA"
2004 Sep. 23 Martin Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Quasar Winds: the 4th Element
2004 Sep. 30 Franklin Chang-Diaz NASA Astronaut & Director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center "The Challenge of Human Space Exploration"
2004 Oct. 07 James Rhoads Space Telescope Science Institute "Lyman Alpha Galaxies"
2004 Oct. 14 Dr. Steve Beckwith Director, Space Telescope Science Institute "First Results from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field"
2004 Oct. 21 Tony Tyson UC Davis Weak Lensing Cosmology and LSST
2004 Oct. 28 Kurtis Williams Steward Observatory Digging Dusky Diamonds In The Stellar Graveyard: New Results From Open Cluster White Dwarf Studies
2004 Nov. 04 Anthony Gonzalez University of Florida The FLAMINGOS Extragalactic Survey: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe
2004 Nov. 18 Joe Miller University of California Lick Observatory Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasi-Stellar Objects, and Galaxies: Relationships and Evolution
2004 Dec. 02 Dr. Yasuhiro Shioya Tohoku University "High Redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Suburu Deep Fields"
2004 Dec. 09 Fred Baganoff MIT Chandra Observations of Sgr A* and Its Galactic Habitat
2004 Dec. 16 Scott Wolk Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Chandra Looks at Regions of Massive Star Formation"
2005 Jan. 27 Mario Mateo University of Michigan "Plugging Away at Dark Matter"
2005 Feb. 03 Dr. Dimitrios Psaltis Physics Department, University of Arizona "New tests of strong-field General Relativity with Black Holes and Neutron Stars"
2005 Feb. 10 Tod Lauer National Optical Astronomical Obervatory "Black Holes and the Central Structure of Galaxies"
2005 Feb. 17 Jeff Valenti Space Telescope Science Institute "Relationship between Stellar Metallicity and Extrasolar Planets"
2005 Feb. 24 Dr. Gary Schmidt Steward Observatory "Cooking with Gauss. The designer kitchen of magnetic funnels and siphons in close binary systems."
2005 Mar. 10 Inese Ivans Caltech "Construction of the MWG: Chemical Clues from Globular Cluster Stars"
2005 Mar. 24 Jeff Hester Arizona State University "Understanding our Origins: Low Mass Star Formation in H II Region Environments"
2005 Mar. 31 Megan Donahue Michigan State University Are Cluster "Cooling Flows" Heated by Active Galactic Nuclei?
2005 Apr. 14 Steve Strom and Sidney Wolff National Optical Astronomy Observatory "Stellar Rotation: A Probe of Star Formation Modes and Initial Conditions?"
2005 Apr. 21 Robert Kennicutt and J.D. Smith Steward Observatory "Nearby Galaxies as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope"
2005 Apr. 28 Yancy Shirley National Radio Astronomy Observatory "Tracing the Mass During the Deeply Embedded Stages of Low-mass and High-mass Star Formation"
2005 May 04 Dr. Frank Shu University of California San Diego "TBA"
2005 May 05 Murray Silverstone, Kate Su, & J. Serena Kim Steward Observatory "Worlds in Collision: New Results from Spitzer Concerning the Evolution of Debris Disks Surrounding Normal Stars"
2005 Aug. 25 Professor John H. Black Chalmers University & Technology, Sweden "Crises and Challenges in Astrochemistry"
2005 Sep. 08 Dr. Julianne Dalcanton University of Washington "The Early Evolution of Disk Galaxies"
2005 Sep. 15 Dr. Jennifer Scott NASA/GSFC/NRC "AGN Outflows: UV and X-ray Observations of Intrinsic Absorption in Two Seyfert 1 Galaxies"
2005 Sep. 22 Dr. Eric Becklin UCLA and SOFIA Observatory "SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy"
2005 Sep. 29 Dr. Benne Holwerda Space Telescope Science Institute "The Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks"
2005 Oct. 06 Hal Levison Southwest Research Institute- Boulder "The Early Dynamical Evolution of the Outer Solar System: A Fairy Tale"
2005 Oct. 13 Jason X. Prochaska University of California Lick Observatory "Probing the ISM of High z Galaxies with DLA and GRB's"
2005 Oct. 20 Dr. Dave Arnett Steward Observatory "The Solar Neon Puzzle, or which is wrong: Helioseismology, Stellar Atmospheres, and Stellar Evolution?"
2005 Oct. 27 Dr. Brian Schmidt Australian National University "The SkyMapper Telescope and Southern Sky Survey"
2005 Nov. 03 Dr. Marla Geha Carnegie Observatories "Dwarf Disk Galaxies: Exploring Dynamics and Baryon Content at the Faint-end of the Luminosity Function"
2005 Nov. 10 Dr. Luis Ho Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena "Black Hole Demographics from AGN Statistics"
2005 Nov. 15 Dr. Oliver Guyon Subaru Telescope, NAOJ "New Prospects for Imaging Giant and Terrestrial Exoplanets"
2005 Nov. 17 CANCELLED CANCELLED "COLLOQUIUM FOR 11/17/05 CANCELLED"
2005 Dec. 01 Dr. Alison Coil Steward Observatory- Hubble Fellow "Galaxy Clustering Properties at z=1: Results from the DEEP2 Survey"
2005 Dec. 08 Dr. Lynn Hillenbrand CalTech "Stellar Populations in Nearby Molecular Clouds and Young Clusters: Ages, Accretion, the IMF, and Incompleteness"
2006 Jan. 19 Dr. Warren Brown Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center"
2006 Jan. 26 Dr. Masami Ouchi Hubble Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute "Mapping the Universe Traced by Galaxies at z=3-7"
2006 Feb. 02 Dr. Peter Milne Steward Observatory "Positron Annihilation in the Galaxy: The first 33 years"
2006 Feb. 09 Dr. Michael Cushing Steward Observatory "Clouds and Chemistry: Probing the Atmospheres of Ultracool Dwarfs with Spitzer"
2006 Feb. 16 Dr. Tom Statler Ohio University "The Hot Interstellar Medium of Normal Elliptical Galaxies"
2006 Feb. 23 Dr. Scott Kenyon Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Formation and Evolution of Planets and Debris Disks"
2006 Mar. 02 CANCELED CANCELED "CANCELED"
2006 Mar. 09 Dr. Mike Brown California Institute of Technology "The 10th Planet (and friends)"
2006 Mar. 23 Dr. Faith Vilas Director, MMT Observatory "Exploring Near-Earth Asteroid Characteristics: The Japanese Hayabusa Mission"
2006 Mar. 30 Dr. Jaymie Matthews University of British Columbia "A SUITCASE FULL OF STARLIGHT: Ultraprecise photometry from the MOST space telescope"
2006 Apr. 06 Dr. Alexander Szalay Johns Hopkins University "Astrophysics with Terabytes of Data"
2006 Apr. 13 Dr. Dante Minniti Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chili "Red Hot Chili Planets"
2006 Apr. 20 Dr. Sally Oey University of Michigan "Massive Star Feedback: Global Properties in Star-Forming Galaxies"
2006 Apr. 27 Dr. Rachel Akeson Michaelson Center for Interferometry - IPAC, Pasadena "Studying the Inner Disks Around Young Stars with Infrared Interferometry"
2006 May 04 Dr. Frank H. Shu University of California San Diego "Magnetic Field Dissipation in Star Formation"
2006 Aug. 31 Huub Rottgering Leiden Observatory (Netherlands) "LOFAR - A New Low-frequency Radio Telescope"
2006 Sep. 07 Dr. Roger Angel Steward Observatory "Applied Astronomy: Sunshades and Renewable Energy"
2006 Sep. 14 Neal Evans University of Texas Astronomy Department "Highlights from the Cores to Disks Spitzer Legacy Program"
2006 Sep. 21 Chung-Pei Ma University of California, Berkeley "Mergers of Massive Galaxies and their Central Black Holes"
2006 Sep. 28 Alice Shapley Princeton University "Star-Formation, Chemical Enrichment, and Feedback at z~2-3"
2006 Oct. 05 Keivan Stassun Vanderbilt University "Fundamental Issues in the Formation and Early Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs"
2006 Oct. 12 None None "Colloquium is cancelled for this week"
2006 Oct. 19 Constance Rockosi UCO- Lick "The Thick Disk of the Milky Way in the SEGUE Survey"
2006 Oct. 26 Anthony Remijan NRAO Green Bank "The Search for our Molecular Origins: The Formation and Distribution of Large Prebiotic Interstellar Molecules"
2006 Nov. 02 Teddy Cheung Stanford "Shedding New Light on Extragalactic Radio Sources with the Great Observatories"
2006 Nov. 09 Daniela Calzetti Space Telescope Science Institute "Star Formation and the Schmidt Law in the Local Universe from Spitzer"
2006 Nov. 16 Fred Ciesla Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism "Chondritic Meteorites and the Evolution of the Solar Nebula"
2006 Nov. 30 Sangeeta Malhotra ASU "Now we are (at Redshift) Six*"
2006 Dec. 07 Emanuele Daddi CEA Saclay/ Service d'Astrophysique (France) "Observational Challenges about Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Distant Universe"
2007 Jan. 18 Dr. Shri Kulkarni California Institute of Technology "The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More"
2007 Jan. 25 Dr. Andrew Blain California Institute of Technology " Dust Enshrouded Star Formation and AGNs at High Redshift"
2007 Feb. 01 Dr. Daniel Eisenstein Steward Observatory "Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"
2007 Feb. 08 Dr. Reinhard Genzel Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley "Spatially Resolved Dynamics of High Redshift Galaxies"
2007 Feb. 15 Bob Blum NOAO "Mass Loss in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A Spitzer SAGE View"
2007 Feb. 22 Dr. Andrea Ghez UCLA "The Central Dark Mass at the Center of Our Galaxy"
2007 Mar. 08 Dr. Darren Croton Douglass Fellow "The Environments of Galaxies as Triggers for Star Formation 'Quenching'"