* C = Colloquium
L = Lunchtime Seminar
Colloquia are held in
the IfA Auditorium at 3:30 pm, with refreshments served at 3:15
pm, unless otherwise noted.
Lunch talks are usually
held in the IfA Auditorium at 12:30 pm.
e-mail: Dave
Sanders
(Colloquium Chair)
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Colloquia: Spring/Summer 2001
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TYPE* |
TITLE |
| Fri 19th Jan |
David E Trilling |
Univ of Pennsylvania |
C |
Observations
of Extrasolar Planetary Systems from Mauna Kea |
| Thu 1st Feb |
Claus Leitherer |
Space Telescope Sci Inst |
C |
Ultraviolet
Line Spectra of Metal-Poor Star-Forming Galaxies |
| Fri 2nd Feb |
Hugh S. Hudson |
UCSD/SPRC/ISAS |
C |
Searching
for Solar Shocks |
| Fri 9th Feb |
Walter R Steiger |
Univ of Hawaii |
C |
The
Origins of Astronomy in Hawai`i |
| Thu 15th Feb |
Phil Massey |
Lowell Observatory |
C |
Understanding
Massive Star Evolution |
| Fri 16th Feb |
Bob Romeo |
Composite Mirror Applications, Inc |
L |
Lightweight Mirror Technology |
| Fri 16th Feb |
Gerard van Belle |
Jet Propulsion Lab |
C |
Astrophysics
on the High Frontier of High Resolution |
| Wed 21st Feb |
Andrew Bunker |
Institute of Astronomy,
Cambridge |
L |
Stellar
Populations and Morphology at High Redshift |
| Fri 23rd Feb |
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Dedication of IfA Building in Hilo |
| Thu 1st Mar |
Andisheh Mahdavi |
Center for Astrophysics |
L |
A
Unification of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies |
| Fri 2nd Mar |
Mike Shao |
Jet Propulsion Lab |
C |
The
Keck Interferometer |
| Fri 9th Mar |
Ralph Neuhaeuser |
IfA & MPE,
Garching |
C |
Large-Scale
Distribution of Young Nearby Stars |
| Wed 14th Mar |
Ed Colbert |
Johns Hopkins Univ |
L |
Intermediate-Luminosity X-Ray Objects |
| Wed 14th Mar |
Philip C Myers |
Center for Astrophysics |
C |
Star-Forming
Motions in the Nearest Molecular Cloud Complexes |
| Fri 16th Mar |
Clive Ruggles |
Univ of Leicester |
C |
Astronomy,
Oral Literature, and Landscape in Ancient Hawaiċi |
| Mon 19th Mar |
Thomas Hearty |
Jet Propulsion Lab |
C |
MBM12:
The Nearest Known Star-Forming Cloud |
| Fri 23rd Mar |
Tom Phillips |
Caltech |
C |
Progress
and Recent Results from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory |
| Tue 27th Mar |
Aaron Barth |
Center for Astrophysics |
L |
Measuring
the Masses of Black Holes in the Nuclei of Nearby Galaxies |
| Fri 30th Mar |
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Spring Recess |
| Thu 5th Apr |
K. Y. Lo |
Institute of Astronomy
& Astrophysics, Taiwan |
C |
Cancelled due to UHPA strike |
| Fri 6th Apr |
Felix Mirabel |
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay |
C |
Microquasars |
| Mon 9th Apr |
Bo Reipurth |
Univ of Colorado |
C |
Herbig-Haro
Jets, Disintegrating Triple Systems, and Brown Dwarfs: Pieces of a Puzzle |
| Thu 12th Apr |
Steven T. Suess |
NASA Marshall |
C |
Coronal
Plumes |
| Fri 13th Apr |
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Good Friday Holiday |
| Fri 20th Apr |
Roberto H Mendez |
Munich University Observatory |
C |
Detection,
photometry and slitless radial velocities of 535 planetary nebulae in the
flattened elliptical galaxy NGC 4697 |
| Fri 27th Apr |
Len Cowie |
IfA |
C |
Mapping
the universal history of star formation and AGN activity |
| Fri 4th May |
Marc Davis |
Univ of California, Berkeley |
C |
The
DEIMOS Spectrograph and the DEEP2 Redshift Survey |
| Fri 11th May |
Sally Oey |
Lowell Observatory |
C |
Consequences
of Massive Star Feedback in Star-Forming Galaxies |
| Mon 21st May |
Sarah Bridle & Oliver Czoske |
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse |
C |
A
comprehensive survey of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at z=0.2 &
a new method for extracting galaxy shapes from images |
| Wed 23rd May |
Roberto Ragazzoni |
Astronomical Observatory, Padua |
C |
Multi
Conjugated Adaptive Optics with solely Natural Guide Stars: a dream, a
possibility or a bench for Laser Guide Stars? |
| Thu 24th May |
Wallace L W Sargent |
Caltech |
C |
Gas in Galaxies
and the Intergalactic Medium at High Redshifts |
| Tues 29th May |
Laird Thompson |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
C |
Laser
Guide Stars in Astronomy |
| Wed 30th May |
John Carpenter |
Caltech |
C |
Star
Formation Potpourri: Clouds, Clusters, the IMF, and Variability |
| Wed 13th June |
Qizhou Zhang |
CfA |
C |
High-Mass
Star Formation: Coalescence vs. Accretion |
| Mon 18th June |
Christ Ftaclas |
Michigan Technical University |
C |
The
Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager |
| Tue 19th June |
Gary Fuller |
UMIST |
C |
Probing The Evolution of
Protostars and Their Dense Cores |
| Thu 21th June |
Eric Bloemhof |
Caltech |
C |
Adaptive
Optics at Palomar |
| Tue 26th June |
Olivier Lai |
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope |
L |
OHANA: Turning the Mauna Kea
Telescopes into a Giant Interferometer |
| Tue 26th June |
Andrew Sheinis |
Lick Observatory |
C |
ESI,
IFUs and QSOs |
| Thu 28th Jun |
Mark Chun |
Gemini Observatory |
C |
Imaging
the Low-Redshift Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers |
| Thu 5th Jul |
Pierre Baudoz |
IfA |
C |
The Best Tools for Reaching High Dynamical Range Imaging
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| Fri 6th Jul |
Tim Slater |
Univ of Arizona |
C |
Why Johnny Can't Learn Astronomy: A Research Progress Report |
| Wed 11th Jul |
Scott Chapman |
Caltech |
C |
Understanding the high redshift sub-mm luminous population and the
relation to other galaxy populations |
| Mon 16th Jul |
Paul Coleman |
Univ of Puerto Rico |
C |
The Fractal Nature of the Universe
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| Tue 17th Jul |
John Peacock |
Univ of Edinburgh |
C |
Measuring Large-Scale Structure with the 2dF
Galaxy Redshift Survey
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| Fri 20th Jul |
John Peacock |
Univ of Edinburgh |
C |
Submillimetre Surveys and Star Formation
at High Redshifts
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| Tue 24th Jul |
Gil Moretto |
Univ of Durham |
C |
Melding Good Optics and Good Astronomy -- Making Every Photon Count!
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| Thu 26th Jul |
Alex Szalay & John Peacock |
Johns Hopkins Univ &
Univ of Edinburgh |
L |
How to Access the SDSS EDR and 2dF Databases
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| Fri 27th Jul |
Alex Szalay |
Johns Hopkins Univ |
C |
Measuring the Shape of the
Galaxy Fluctuation Spectrum from SDSS |
| Mon 30th Jul |
John Peacock |
Univ of Edinburgh |
L |
The Halo Model: A Tutorial
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| Wed 1st Aug |
Christophe Dumas |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech |
L |
Neptune Inner Satellites and Ring-Arcs |
| Mon 6th Aug |
Roger Davies |
Durham Univ |
C |
Mapping Local Galaxies with a Panoramic
IFU: The SAURON Survey |
| Wed 8th Aug |
Oliver Czoske |
IfA & Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse |
L |
The Cluster(s) of Galaxies Cl0024+1654 |
| Thu 16th Aug |
Lothar Strueder |
Max-Planck-Institute for Semiconductor Research |
C |
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| Thu 23rd Aug |
Haimin Wang |
Big Bear Solar Observatory & New Jersey Institute of Technology |
C |
Solar Eruptions and Geomagnetic Consequences |
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