* 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 2002
| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TYPE* |
TITLE |
| Wed 16th Jan |
Markus Aschwanden |
Lockheed Martin |
C |
A Fresh View on the Coronal Heating Problem
from TRACE |
| Wed 23th Jan |
Leon Golub |
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics |
C |
Coronal Science from TRACE |
| Fri 25th Jan |
Klaus G. Strassmeier |
Astrophysical Institute
Potsdam, Germany |
C |
Observing stellar surfaces.
New instrumentation, old problems |
| Mon 28th Jan |
Sydney D'Silva |
Michigan State Univ |
C |
Slicing the Sun |
| Wed 13th Feb |
Fabio Bresolin |
IfA |
C |
Optical Spectroscopy Of Metal-Rich Extragalactic HII Regions
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| Wed 20th Feb |
Phil Gregory |
Univ of British Columbia |
C |
A Bayesian Revolution in Spectral Analysis |
| Tue 26th Feb |
Leslie Looney |
Max-Planck-Institute for Space Physics |
C |
The Structures of Star Formation: Small and Large Scales |
| Wed 27th Feb |
Norna Robertson |
Univ of Glasgow, Scotland
& Stanford Univ |
C |
The Search for Gravitational Waves |
| Fri 1st Mar |
Ed Fomalont |
National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
L |
What Do Micro-Jansky Radio Sources Look Like? |
| Tue 5th Mar |
John Carpenter |
Caltech |
C |
Evolution of Circumstellar Accretion Disks |
| Wed 6th Mar |
Jayant V. Narlikar |
Inter-University Centre for
Astronomy & Astrophysics, India |
C |
Small Scale Fluctuations of the CMBR in the
Quasi-Steady State Cosmology |
| Tue 19th Mar |
Jonathan Williams |
Univ of Florida |
C |
Star Formation Studies with the SMA |
| Fri 22nd Mar |
Nicholas Z. Scoville |
Caltech |
C |
Starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Mon 25th Mar |
Ben Lane |
Caltech |
L |
The low-mass binary GJ 569B |
| Wed 3rd April |
Andrew Blain |
Caltech |
C |
The history of star formation in dusty galaxies |
| Fri 5th Apr |
Paul Abell & Paul Hardersen |
Rensselaer Polytechnic |
L |
Main-Belt and Near-Earth Asteroid Results from the IRTF using SpeX |
| Wed 10th Apr |
Andy Adamson |
U.K. Infrared Telescope |
C |
Present status and future developments at UKIRT |
| Wed 17th Apr |
Dan Werthimer |
U.C. Berkeley |
C |
Searching for ET with Help from Three Million Volunteers:
SETI@home, SERENDIP, Radio and Optical SETI |
| Fri 19th April |
Bahram Mobasher |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
C |
Dust-free Star Formation Rate from Multi-Waveband Galaxy Surveys |
| Mon 22nd April |
Alejandre Vazdekis |
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain |
L |
Are current stellar population synthesis models good enough for interpreting 8-10m class telescope data?
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| Wed 24th Apr |
Ian McLean |
U.C.L.A. |
C |
Performance and Results of NIRSPEC on the Keck Telescope |
| Wed 8th May |
Pat Henry |
IfA |
C |
Evolution of the X-ray Properties of Clusters of Galaxies |
| Wed 15th May |
Helmut Dannerbauer |
Max-Planck-Institute for Space Physics, Germany |
L |
Identification of Sources in MAMBO (1.2mm) Deep Fields |
| Fri 17th May |
Tom Greene |
NASA Ames Research Center |
C |
Towards the Astrophysics of Protostars via IR Spectroscopy |
| Mon 20th May |
Kartik Sheth |
Caltech |
C |
Molecular Gas Properties of Barred Spiral Galaxies |
| Wed 22nd May |
Ben Greene |
ESO |
L |
The Role of Laser Tracking in Obtaining a Debris
Catalogue to Protect HST |
| Wed 29th May |
Robert Jedicke |
Univ of Arizona |
L |
The Spacewatch Project: Unveiling the Origins of Near Earth Objects |
| Wed 29th May |
Eberhard Gruen |
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics
&Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology |
C |
Interstellar Dust in the Heliosphere and in the Local
Interstellar Cloud |
| Thu 30th May |
Reinhard Genzel |
MPE-Garching
& U. C. Berkeley |
C |
Studying Galaxy Dynamics with Infrared/Millimeter Techniques |
| Fri 31st May |
Yakiv Pavlenko |
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine |
C |
Modeling of Spectra of Stars and Brown Dwarfs -- an
Interplay of Observation and Theory |
| Mon 3rd Jun |
Pui Hin Rhoads |
IfA |
L |
Discussion on E-Mail Spam/Viruses and Filtering |
| Wed 12th Jun |
Nicholas Rattenbury |
Univ of Auckland, New Zealand |
L |
Detecting Extra-Solar Planets via Microlensing at High Magnification |
| Tue 2nd Jul |
Sangeeta Malhotra |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
C |
Large Area Lyman-Alpha Survey |
| Tue 9th Jul |
James Rhoads |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
L |
Gamma-Ray Bursters |
| Wed 24th Jul |
Dave Monet |
U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff |
C |
The USNO-B Catalog |
| Wed 7th Aug |
Vladimir V. Tchernyi |
Russian Academy of Science |
L |
Possible Superconductivity of Saturn's Rings |
| Mon 12th Aug |
Jan Stenflo |
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
C |
Astrophysical Spectro-Polarimetry: New Developments |
| Thu 22nd Aug |
Fred Lo |
Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taiwan |
C |
Megamasers and Galaxies |
| Fri 23rd Aug |
Andy Lawrence &
Steve Warren |
Univ of Edinburgh &
Imperial College London |
C |
Quasars: the Ghost in the Machine &
The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey |
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