Astro 735 PanSTARRs Seminar 

Fall 2004

Mostly Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 IfA Auditorium  

This is the actual schedule as it has evolved over the semester.   

    Wed

Aug  25     Introduction, PS1                                         Chambers 
Sept  1     PanSTARRS overview                                        Chambers  
Sept 10     Optical Design of the PS Telescopes                       Hodapp
Sept 17     CCDs, OTAs, and The Gigapixel Camera                      Tonry
Sept 22     Astrometry, orbit computation                             Tholen
Sept 29     Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs) and MOPS             Jedicke  
Oct   6     The PanSTARRS Image Processing Pipeline                   Magnier 
Oct  15     Photometry and calibration with the IPP                   Magnier
Oct  20     KBOs and studies of the outer solar system with PS        Jewitt 
Nov   1     Star Formation studies with PS                            Reipurth 
Nov  17     Gamma Ray Bursters and orphan afterglows                  Price 
Nov  24     Relational Databases                                      Raja 
Dec   1     Supernova and dark energy                                 Tonry 
Dec   8     Weak lensing and Dark Matter                              Kaiser