| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 2001 |
Nov. 29 |
Dr. Betsy Barton Gillespie |
Steward Observatory |
Interactions and the Evolution of Galaxies |
| 2001 |
Dec. 6 |
None (Faculty Retreat) |
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| 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) |
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| 2002 |
Mar. 21 |
None Scheduled |
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| 2002 |
Mar. 28 |
None Scheduled |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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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'" |
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