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Events for the Public CfA Colloquium Series Conferences and Workshops Seminars Weekly Calendar Map and Directions	CfA Colloquium Speakers Sorted by Name   DATE FIRST LAST INSTITUTION TITLE HOST 1996 May 30 Bok Prize Lecture - To Be Announced 1997 May 29 Bok Prize Lecture 2006/01/19 Michael A'Hearn University of Maryland Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1 Dan Green 11/13/03 Fred Adams University of Michigan Chaotic Case Studies: Sensitive dependence on initial conditions in star formation and planet formation Charles Lada 10/12/00 Fred C. Adams Michigan Phil Myers 2007/03/15 Felix Aharonian MPI Heidelberg High Energy Processes in Shell-type SNRs and Pulsar Wind Nebulae Doug Finkbeiner 4/8/99 Charles Alcock LLNL R. Di Stefano 10/30/03 Charles Alcock Univ. of Pennsylvania Fishing in the Dark: Searching for extremely faint objects in the outer Solar System Matthew Holman 12/09/04 Lori Allen Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics What Spitzer is teaching us about star formation and disk evolution 1996 September 5 Roger Angel Steward How to Look for Primitive Life on Planets Orbiting Other Stars 11/07/02 Spiro Antiochos NRL J. Raymond 11/18/04 Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard Univ., Physics Dept. The Accelerating Universes Matias Zaldarriaga 02/06/03 Phil Armitage U. Colorado S. Kenyon 5/3/01 Monique Arnaud Saclay Bill Forman 1997 April 24 Jonathan W. Arons University of California Pulsar Death At An Advanced Age 1996 May 2 Anthony Aveni Colgate University Mystery of the Nazca Lines 9/10/98 John Bahcall Inst. for Adv. Study A. Loeb 10/14/99 Neta A. Bahcall Princeton Christine Jones 11/04/04 Bruce Balick University of Washington Stars as Artists: The Shaping of Planetary Nebulae Andrew Szentgyorgyi 1997 February 20 John Bally University of Colorado Parsec-Scale Herbig-Haro Outflows from Young Stars 2007/03/01 John Bally University of Colorado Star and Planet Formation in Orion, Perseus, and Cepheus Bob Wilson 2005/10/27 Amy Barger University of Wisconsin AGN Evolution Nelson Caldwell 3/1/01 Amy J. Barger Hawaii Harvey Tananbaum 1996 December 12 Peter Barthel 2005/10/06 Peter Barthel Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,Groningen To be or not to be active Belinda Wilkes 3/15/01 Jill Bechtold Arizona Aneta Siemiginowska 9/21/00 Robert H. Becker UC Davis Steve Murray 4/30/98 Steve Beckwith MPI Heidelberg C. Lada 3/9/00 Timothy C. Beers Michigan State Dave Latham 1997 May 22 Mitchell Begelman JILA, Universityo f Colorado The Emancipation of Slaved Accretion Disks: Why Disks Warp and Precess 11/20/03 Mitchell Begelman Univ. of Colorado Boulder Cooling Flows Sing the Blues Aneta Siemiginowska 2006/10/26 David Bennett Notre Dame Detection of Low-Mass Extrasolar Planets by Gravitational Microlensing Charles Alcock 11/18/99 Rebecca Bernstein OCIW John Huchra 12/11/03 Mario Biagioli Harvard University Distance and authority in early telescopic astronomy Owen Gingerich 2/18/99 Lars Bildsten UC Berkeley Dimitrios Psaltis 04/17/03 Geoff Blake Caltech P. Myers 10/22/98 Roger Blandford Cal Tech L. Hernquist 1997 March 27 Leo Blitz University of California, Berkeley What the High Velocity Clouds Are 4/13/00 Michael Bolte Lick Lars Hernquist 12/9/99 Alan P. Boss DTM Dave Latham 4/27/00 Gregory D. Bothun Oregon Margaret Geller 2006/11/09 Niel Brandt Penn State University Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe: Recent Results from the Chandra Deep Field Surveys Jeff McClintock 12/04/03 Jean Brodie UC Observatories/Lick Globular Cluster Sub-Populations and Galaxy Assembly John Huchra 2007/04/12 Mike Brown Caltech The Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System Dan Green 5/24/01 Timothy M. Brown HAO Bob Noyes 2006/04/06 Warren Brown CfA Clay Fellowship Lecture: Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center Charles Alcock 2007/04/26 Warren Brown CfA Bok Prize Lecture: Discoveries of Hypervelocity Stars and What They Tell Us About the Galactic Center Margaret Geller 1996 May 23 Don Brownlee U.Washington GEMS 1997 January 30 James Buckley F.L. Whipple Observatory TeV Gamma-Rays from Blazars and Supernova Remnants 3/16/00 Adam S. Burrows Arizona Dimitar Sasselov 02/27/03 Daniela Calzetti STScI L. Kewley 5/7/99 Claude Canizares *Sackler Lecture* Ramesh Narayan 03/27/03 Robin Canup SWRI M. Holman 09/16/04 Chris Carilli NRAO Radio Astronomical Probes of Cosmic Reionization Lincoln Greenhill 1997 10 16 John Carlstrom U. Chicago 02/11/02 John Carlstrom U. Chicago L. Grego 2/11/99 Marcella Carollo Johns Hopkins George Rybicki 03/25/04 Annalisa Celotti International School for Advanced Studies, Italy Jets in Active Nuclei: what are we learning? Antonella Fruscione 11/01/01 Catherine Cesarsky ESO G. Fazio 2/15/01 Brian Chaboyer Dartmouth Dimitar Sasselov 03/18/04 Dave Charbonneau Caltech The Brown Dwarf Radial Velocity Survey Robert Noyes 1997 March 20 Jane Charlton Pennsylvania State University Quasar Absorption Lines: The Evolution of Galactic Gas Over Cosmic Time 1996 September 19 Roger Chevalier University of Virginia Diversity of Supernovae: SN 1987A and SN 1993J 04/01/04 Roger Chevalier University of Virginia Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and their Supernovae Robert Kirshner 05/13/04 Philip Christensen Arizona State University The history of water on Mars: Evidence from minerals, morphology (and rovers).[Video of the Presentation] Scott Kenyon 2006/09/07 Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard University of Aarhus, Denmark Helio- and asteroseismology: windows on stellar interiors James Arthur Lecture Sylvain Korzennik 03/31/05 Edward B. Churchwell The University of Wisconsin Recent Results from the Spitzer GLIMPSE Legacy Science Program Tom Megeath 09/26/02 Robin Ciardullo Penn State W. Forman 1/18/01 Matthew Colless Stromlo John Huchra 1996 Feb 8 Francoise Combes IAP, Paris Molecular Absorption at z~1 04/03/03 Stephane Corbel Saclay P. Kaaret 2005/09/29 Gary Da Costa Mt. Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National Observatory The Structure of the Sculptor and Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Nelson Caldwell 12/05/02 Len Cowie U. Hawaii, IfA J. Huchra 2006/03/09 Steve Cranmer CfA Leaky Stars: Pulsations, Waves, and Turbulence in Stellar Winds across the H-R Diagram John Kohl 12/19/02 Juliane Dalcanton U. Washington K. Stanek 04/18/02 Alex Dalgarno CfA K. Kirby 12/21/00 Thomas M. Dame CfA Pat Thaddeus 1996 October 3 Arthur Davidsen Johns Hopkins Intergalactic hydrogen and helium and the baryon density of the Universe 03/13/03 James Davis CfA J. Moran 1996 May 9 Marc Davis UC Berkeley Large Scale Comparison of Peculiar Velocity and Gravity Fields 1997 April 10 David DeVorkin National Air and Space Museum The Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution under Charles Greeley Abbot: A Time of Expansive Dreams and Promise. 05/06/04 Avishai Dekel The Hebrew University, Israel The Characteristic Scale of Galaxy Formation Abraham Loeb 2006/12/14 Steven Dick NASA Headquarters Astrobiology and the Biological Universe Owen Gingerich 1997 11 13 Mark Dickinson STScI 01/31/02 Megan Donahue STScI C. Jones 04/21/05 Chris Done University of Durham Accretion onto black holes: from galactic binaries to AGN Aneta Siemiginowska 2/26/98 Bruce Draine Princeton A. Goodman 2006/02/23 Bruce Draine Princeton New Views of Interstellar Dust: From Infrared to X-Rays Phil Myers 11/02/00 Frank Drake SETI Institute Dave Latham 10/23/03 Janet Drew Imperial College London A binary taxonomy brain-teaser: the first carbon-enhanced cataclysmic variable Scott Kenyon 1996 Apr 11 Andrea Dupree CfA Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy: What's Hot about Cool Stars? 2006/04/27 Jerry Edelstein Berkeley The Galactic Far Ultraviolet Sky Jeremy Drake 5/14/98 George Efstathiou IOA, Cambridge A. Loeb 2/19/98 Richard Ellis Cambridge 09/27/01 Bruce Elmegreen IBM C. Jones 2007/04/19 Debra Meloy Elmegreen Vassar College Clumpy Galaxies in the Early Universe John Huchra 1996 Feb 29 Martin Elvis CfA X-rays and High Redshift Quasars 03/14/02 Aaron Evans SUNY, Stony Brook D. Dobrzycka 02/10/05 Neal Evans University of Texas Star Formation in Context Phil Myers 10/19/00 August E. Evrard Michigan Bill Forman 03/03/05 Pepi Fabbiano Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Investigating galaxy evolution with Chandra Jonathan Grindlay 05/27/04 Sandra Faber UC Observatories/Lick Observatory Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture: Galaxy Evolution over the Latter Half of Cosmic History[Video of the Presentation] Irwin Shapiro 5/7/98 Andy Fabian IOA, Cambridge W. Forman 05/16/02 Heino Falcke MPIfR Bonn A. Siemiginowska 11/4/99 Emilio Falco CfA Dan Fabricant 11/15/01 Xiaohui Fan Princeton K. Stanek 01/29/04 Giovanni Fazio Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the Infrared Universe Dan Fabricant 1996 Feb 1 William Feldman Ulysses 4/12/01 Henry C. Ferguson STScI Rick Harnden 1997 11 20 Andrea Ferrara Arcetri 03/07/02 Laura Ferrarese Rutgers J. Huchra 05/15/03 Brian Fields U. Illinois M. Zaldarriaga 09/25/03 Brian Fields Univ. of Illinois Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of the Cosmic Microwave Background Kentaro Nagamine 2/24/00 Alexei V. Filippenko Berkeley Bob Kirshner 2007/01/25 Douglas Finkbeiner CfA "Exciting" Dark Matter and the 511 keV line. Alyssa Goodman 1997 February 13 Fabrizio Fiore Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma Observations with the BeppoSAX Satellite 12/7/00 Debra Fischer Berkeley Bob Noyes 2006/02/16 Debra Fischer San Francisco State University Radcliffe Lecture in the Sciences: Formation and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems Bob Noyes 10/07/04 Len Fisk University of Michigan Behavior of the Open Magnetic Flux of the Sun Leon Golub 1995 Dec 14 Adam Frank U.Minn Jets from Young Stellar Objects 1997 11 06 Wendy Freedman Carnegie 2006/03/16 Wendy Freedman Carnegie Observatories Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture: Measuring Cosmological Parameters Charles Alcock 05/26/05 Richard French Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College Saturn's Rings in the Cassini Era Brian McLeod 10/5/00 Andrew S. Fruchter STScI Alyssa Goodman 04/25/02 Bryan Gaensler CfA I. Shapiro 2005/10/20 Bryan Gaensler CfA Magnetars and Their Environments Josh Grindlay 1997 January 23 Antoinette B. Galvin University of Maryland Solar Wind Composition Measurements: Guideposts to Solar and Heliospheric Processes 2005/10/13 Giuseppe Gavazzi Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca The Evolution of Evolved Galaxies Antonella Fruscione 2005/11/17 Marla Geha Carnegie Observatories Dwarf Disk Galaxies: Exploring Dynamics and Baryon Content at the Faint-end of the Luminosity Function Charles Alcock 05/12/05 Neil Gehrels NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission Stephen Murray 2006/05/18 Margaret Geller CfA A Lensing Map... A Redshift Survey Daniel Fabricant 1997 10 09 Reinhard Genzel Max Planck 1996 October 10 Andrea Ghez UCLA The Frequency and Effect of Young Companion Stars 4/22/99 Andrea Ghez UCLA Mark Reid 5/4/00 Andrea M. Ghez UCLA Alyssa Goodman 05/01/03 Riccardo Giaconni AUI I. Shapiro 05/24/02 Roberto Gilmozzi ESO D. Fabricant 12/13/01 Owen Gingerich Harvard D. Latham 1996 September 26 Riccardo Giovanelli Cornell Deviations from Hubble Flow in the Local Universe 03/10/05 Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth College History of Astronomy Lecture Owen Gingerich 3/19/98 Peter Goldreich Caltech A. Loeb 04/29/04 Peter Goldreich Caltech Final Stages of Planet Formation Ramesh Narayan 2006/01/26 Leon Golub CfA Observing The X-ray Sun Ed DeLuca 1995 Oct 5 Alyssa Goodman Harvard CfA 9/17/98 Alyssa Goodman *Bok Prize Lecture* R. Narayan 5/6/99 Lincoln Greenhill *Bok Prize I* Alyssa Goodman 01/20/05 Phil Gregory University of British Columbia A Bayesian Revolution in Spectral Analysis Vinay Kashyap 1996 Apr 4 Josh Grindlay CfA Compact Objects and Binaries in Globular Clusters: ROSAT and HST Revelations 11/30/00 Tristan Guillot Nice Dimitar Sasselov 2006/05/25 James Gunn Princeton University Sackler Lecture: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Past and Future Charles Alcock 03/28/02 Evan Hadingham WGBH M. Schneps 1996 November 14 Fred Hamann UC San Diego 1995 Nov 30 Heidi Hammel MIT SL9 Impact with Jupiter 03/11/04 Brad Hansen UCLA The White Dwarf cooling sequence in the Globular Cluster Messier 4 Josh Grindlay 11/29/01 Lee Hartmann SAO A. Dupree 09/11/03 Peter Hauschildt Univ. of Hamburg Model Atmospheres of M, L, and T dwarfs Scott Kenyon 5/21/98 Mike Hauser STScI J. Vrtilek 09/12/02 John Hawley U. Virginia S. Kenyon 4/20/00 Martha P. Haynes Cornell Dave Latham 05/29/03 Tim Heckman Johns Hopkins M. Elvis 12/10/98 Carl Heiles UC Berkeley A. Goodman 1996 Mar 21 David Helfand Columbia First Science from the FIRST Survey 1995 Oct 26 Pat Henry U.Hawaii 1996 Apr 25 Lars Hernquist UC Santa Cruz Quasar Absorbtion Lines in a CD Universe 3/12/98 Lars Hernquist U.C. Santa Cruz A. Loeb 5/13/99 James Herrnstein *Bok Prize II* Jim Moran 02/07/02 Jeff Hester Arizona State P. Slane 12/18/03 Jacqueline Hewitt MIT LOFAR as a Radio Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope Alyssa Goodman 2007/02/22 Lynne Hillenbrand Caltech From Protostars to Planets to Debris Around Young Suns Lori Allen 2006/02/02 Phil Hinz University of Arizona Searching for other Solar Systems with the MMT Deformable Secondary Brian McLeod 1995 Oct 19 R. Hjellming NRAO Socorro 02/24/05 Luis Ho Carnegie Observatories Black Hole Demographics in the Local Universe Paul Ho 03/17/05 Paul Ho Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Science with the Submillimeter Array James Moran 06/03/04 Jarita Holbrook BARA - University of Arizona Cultural Astronomy of Africa Antonella Fruscione 2005/12/01 Matt Holman CfA The Use of Transit Timing to Detect Extrasolar Planets Joshua Winn 2/8/01 Martin Huber ESA John Kohl 2006/09/21 Jack Hughes Rutgers University New Insights into the Physics of Supernovae and their Remnants: A Comprehensive X-ray Study of SN 1572 Pat Slane 10/28/04 Scott A. Hughes MIT Gravitational Waves: A Tool for Studying Black Hole Physics Rosanne Di Stefano 04/08/04 Deidre Hunter Lowell Observatory The Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies Margaret Geller 05/08/03 Chris Impey U. Arizona B. McLeod 09/18/03 Kathryn Johnston Wesleyan University Stellar Halos and Hierarchical Structure Formation James Bullock 05/20/04 Christine Jones Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The Impacts of AGN Outbursts on the Hot Gaseous Atmospheres of Elliptical Galaxies[Video of the Presentation] Maxim Markevitch 9/23/99 Steven M. Kahn Columbia Josh Grindlay 4/26/01 Vassiliki Kalogera CfA Irwin Shapiro 2007/05/17 Lisa Kaltenegger CfA pH Lecture: Spectral Fingerprints of Earth-like Exoplanets Charles Alcock 5/11/00 Marc Kamionkowski Caltech Avi Loeb 2006/09/14 David Kaplan MIT Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars: Laboratories for Extreme Physics Pat Slane 1997 10 30 Vicky Kaspi MIT 2006/04/20 Charles Keeton Rutgers University Testing Theories of Gravity with Lensing by Compact Objects Aneta Siemiginowska 11/12/98 Rob Kennicutt U. Arizona J. Huchra 1997 January 16 Brian W. Kernigan Bell Laboratories The C Programming Language -- Past, Present and Future 1996 Apr 18 Martin Kessler ESA ISO - Initial In-Orbit Results 09/13/01 Andrew King U. Leicester M. Garcia 9/24/98 Bob Kirshner Harvard U. I. Shapiro 2007/05/10 Robert Kirshner CfA Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology Daniel Fabricant 2005/09/08 Andrew Knoll Harvard, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Opportunity, Meridiani, and the Search for Life on Mars Dimitar Sasselov 9/30/99 Andrew H. Knoll Harvard Dimitar Sasselov 1997 February 6 Christopher Kochanek Harvard University Rebuilding the Cepheid Distance Scale 10/02/03 Anton Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute Extreme X-ray/Optical sources (EXOs): Probes of the High Redshift Universe Harvey Tananbaum 1996 November 21 John Kohl CfA 12/16/04 Arieh Konigl University of Chicago Relativistic Jets in Gamma-Ray Burst Sources and Active Galactic Nuclei George Rybicki 2006/03/23 Alan Kostelecky Indiana University Testing Relativity Ron Walsworth 1997 12 11 Shri Kulkarni Caltech 4/9/01 Shri Kulkarni Caltech/MIT Irwin Shapiro 2007/02/01 Shri Kulkarni Caltech An explosion of cosmic explosions Ramesh Narayan 1997 March 13 Charles Lada Center for Astrophysics Deciphering the Nature of the Youngest Stellar Objects And the Need for an Infrared Spectrograph for the MMT 3/25/99 Charlie Lada CfA George Field 10/09/03 Don Lamb Univ. of Chicago Scientific highlights of the HETE-2 mission Ramesh Narayan 4/2/98 Bill Langer JPL P. Myers 2006/10/05 Greg Laughlin UC Santa Cruz Extrasolar Planets David Charbonneau 02/20/03 John Learned U. Hawaii A. Szentgyorgyi 1996 Mar 14 John Leibacher 1996 James Arthur Lecture GONG 2005/08/25 Bob Lin Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley Particle Acceleration by the Sun Ed DeLuca 1996 October 1 Doug Lin Santa Cruz The Ubiquity of Planets and the Diversity of Planetary Systems 4/23/98 Mario Livio STScI J. Raymond 02/28/02 Mario Livio STScI S. Kenyon 10/24/02 Jay Lockman NRAO L. Matthews 1996 Jan 25 Avi Loeb Harvard Structure Formation in the Universe at High Redshift 10/29/98 Avi Loeb Harvard U. G. Field 02/03/05 Avi Loeb Center for Astrophysics Mapping Cosmic Hydrogen in the Infant Universe Lincoln Greenhill 1996 September 12 Tom Loredo Cornell Learning How To Count: The Statistics of Gamma Ray Bursts 2/4/99 Lori Lubin Caltech George Rybicki 2007/03/22 Kevin Luhman Pennsylvania State University The Origin of Brown Dwarfs Eric Mamajek 3/5/98 Jonathan Lunine U. Arizona R. Noyes 10/15/98 Donald Lynden-Bell Institute of Astronomy (Busses to MIT) 10/28/99 Piero Madau Cambridge Avi Loeb 2005/09/15 Renu Malhotra University of Arizona The Origin of Planetary Impactors in the Inner Solar System Matt Holman 04/24/03 Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas CfA I. Shapiro 04/14/05 Eric Mamajek Center for Astrophysics Clay Fellow Clay Fellow Symposium Charles Alcock 1997 January 9 Geoffrey Marcy San Francisco State University Planets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars 02/26/04 Alan Marscher Institute for Astrophysical Research,Boston University Spying on Blazars: Life in the Fast Lane Martin Elvis 10/14/04 Chris Martin Caltech Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) Mike Pahre 04/22/04 Paul Martini Center for Astrophysics Clay Fellow Clay Fellow Symposiumhe Feeding of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes Irwin Shapiro 2005/12/15 Mario Mateo University of Michigan The Darkest Galaxies: Kinematics and Dark Matter in the Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites of the Milky Way Andrew Szentgyorgyi 11/06/03 John Mather Goddard Space Flight Center The James Webb Space Telescope Margaret Geller 1995 Nov 2 Smita Mathur CfA 04/28/05 Jaymie M. Matthews University of British Columbia Probing Pulsations and Planets with a Humble Space Telescope: Results of Ultraprecise Photometry from Canada's MOST Microsat Rosanne Di Stefano 04/25/02 Lynn Matthews CfA I. Shapiro 3/8/01 Claire Max Livermore Dave Latham 02/05/04 Claire Max UC Santa Cruz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Nearby active galactic nuclei seen via adaptive optics at the Keck Telescope Jim Moran 2006/12/07 Michael McCarthy CfA The First Negative Molecular Ion in the Interstellar Gas Pat Thaddeus 1996 October 31 Michael C. McCarthy CfA Nine New Carbon Chains 2006/10/12 Jeff McClintock CfA The Spin of the Near-Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105 Ramesh Narayan 04/10/03 Naomi McClure-Griffiths ATNF B. Gaensler 2/25/99 Dick McCray Colorado Bob Kirshner 2006/03/02 Tom Megeath CfA Star Formation in the Nearest Kiloparsec, The View from Spitzer Lori Allen 2/3/00 Peter Meszaros Penn State Ramesh Narayan 10/10/02 Joe Mohr U. Illinois M. Geller 12/16/99 Michael R. Molnar Rutgers Owen Gingerich 2/10/00 H. Warren Moos Johns Hopkins Andrea Dupree 1997 10 23 Mark Morris UCLA 11/21/02 Heather Morrison Case Western W. Brown 11/9/00 Philip Morrison MIT Dave Latham 10/18/01 Michael Mumma GSFC E. Bergin 11/08/01 Norm Murray CITA M. Holman 1996 October 24 Richard Mushotzky GSFC X-ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies--A Cosmological Laboratory 2/12/98 Ramesh Narayan CfA J. McClintock 12/06/01 Priya Natarajan Yale C. Kochanek 06/05/03 Antonella Natta Arcetri S. Kenyon 10/17/02 Jerry Nelson UCSC D. Fabricant 6/1/00 C. Barth Netterfield Univ. of Toronto Bob Wilson? 2/17/00 David A. Neufeld Johns Hopkins Gary Melnick 10/31/02 Fabrizio Nicastro CfA M. Elvis 04/11/02 Michael Norman UCSD W. Forman 12/2/99 Robert W. Noyes CfA Mike Lecar 10/21/04 Knut Olsen Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Globular Clusters and the Disks of Nearby Galaxies Paul Green 11/14/02 Eve Ostriker U. Maryland A. Goodman 11/16/00 Eve C. Ostriker Maryland Alyssa Goodman 2007/02/15 Feryal Ozel University of Arizona Peeking into a Neutron Star: Neutrons, Condensates, or Quarks? Pat Slane 1997 May 1 Bohdan Paczynski Princeton University Observatory Present and Future of Microlensing Searches 4/29/99 Bohdan Paczynski Princeton Dimitar Sasselov 1997 12 04 Lyman Page Princeton 10/7/99 John Peacock ROE Lars Hernquist 2006/03/30 Rosalba Perna University of Colorado The many lives of Neutron Stars Tom Aldcroft 03/20/03 Brad Peterson Ohio State U. B. Wilkes 3/2/00 Max Pettini RGO Bob Kirshner 05/09/02 Caty Pilachowski Indiana U. D. Latham 12/14/00 Eric R. Priest St. Andrews Gene Avrett 03/04/04 Ralph Pudritz McMaster University, Canada The formation of star clusters - 3D simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence in self-gravitating gas Phil Myers 04/07/05 Eliot Quataert Univ. of California, Berkeley Bok Prize Lecture Ramesh Narayan 2006/02/09 Scott Ransom NRAO Bok Prize Lecture Exotica and Basic Physics: A Globular Cluster Pulsar Renaissance with the GBT Giovanni Fazio 1996 May 16 Fred Rasio MIT Stellar Collisions and the Formation of Blue Stragglers 1/27/00 Frederic A. Rasio MIT Mike Lecar 10/16/03 John Raymond Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Coronal Mass Ejections Associated with the Most Powerful Solar Flares John Kohl 05/22/03 Tony Readhead Caltech M. Reid 5/25/00 I. Neill Reid Penn Chris Kochanek 02/12/04 Mark Reid Center for Astrophysics Must Sgr A* be a super-massive black hole? David Wilner 10/21/99 Bo Reipurth ESO Lee Hartmann 1997 February 27 Ronald Remillard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Probing the Pandemonium: RXTE Observations of the Galactic Microquasars 12/3/98 Ron Reynolds U. Wisconsin K. Wood 4/9/98 Doug Richstone U. Michigan R. Kirshner 10/25/01 Adam Riess STScI R. Kirshner 1997 March 6 Dr. Hans-Walter Rix University of Arizona Dark Matter in Elliptsicals at Small and at Very Small Radii 3/4/99 Ian Robson JAC/JCMT Paul Ho 2007/03/29 David Sanders University of Hawaii The Origin and Evolution of Luminous Infrared Galaxies: new results from the Spitzer-COSMOS survey. Margaret Geller 3/22/01 Anneila I. Sargent Caltech Irwin Shapiro 1995 Nov 16 W.L.W. Sargent Caltech Arthur Sackler Lecture 1996 Feb 22 Dimitar Sasselov CfA Cepheids and the Distance Scale 2005/12/08 Sara Schechner Harvard, History of Science Department Politics and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop's Observations of the Transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 Owen Gingerich 10/03/02 Paul Schechter MIT C. Kochanek 3/23/00 Brian Schmidt Stromlo Owen Gingerich 2006/11/16 Gary Schmidt University of Arizona Funnels, Siphons, and Winds, "Oh, My!" The Weird and Wonderful World of Magnetic Accretion Belinda Wilkes 2006/04/13 Matthew Schneps CfA Award-Winning Television from the CfA Science Education Department Philip Sadler 03/21/02 Dan Schwartz CfA W. Forman 2/22/01 Douglas Scott UBC Martin White 03/18/04 Sara Seager Carnegie Institution of Washington Bok Prize Lecture (shared)owards a Physical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets 09/23/04 Uros Seljak Princeton University Cosmology with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Matias Zaldarriaga 1995 Sept 7 Neil Shelley NRL James Arthur Lecture 4/12/99 Frank Shu UC Berkeley Philip Myers 01/30/03 Frank Shu Tsinghua University C. Lada 2007/05/03 Mike Shull University of Colorado Search for the Missing Baryons Andrea Dupree 1995 Oct 12 Joe Silk UC Berkeley 05/19/05 Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Astrophysical tests of quantum gravity Margaret Geller 10/26/00 Christopher Sneden Texas Dave Latham 02/19/04 David Spergel Princeton University WMAP and Beyond Matias Zaldarriaga 5/17/01 Hy Spinrad Berkeley Bob Kirshner 2005/09/22 Steven Stahler UC Berkeley Unsolved Problems in Star Formation Gary Melnick 02/13/03 Kris Stanek CfA J. Grindlay 2007/05/24 Antony Stark CfA Cosmology and Galactic Astronomy from the South Pole Bob Wilson 04/24/03 Daniel Steeghs CfA I. Shapiro 2005/11/10 Rosanne Di Stefano CfA/Tufts Mesolensing: Discovering Nearby Stellar Remnants and Low-Mass Dwarfs Ramesh Narayan 1997 April 3 Charles C. Steidel California Institute of Technology Galaxies and Large Scale Structure at Redshift Z~3 3/11/99 Paul Steinhardt Princeton Avi Loeb 9/28/00 F. Richard Stephenson Durham Owen Gingerich 1/25/01 S. Alan Stern Southwest Research Brian Marsden 2/5/98 Chris Stubbs U. Washington D. Sasselov 03/22/05 Rashid Sunyaev Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik; Sackler Lecture Sackler Lecture Charles Alcock 12/12/02 Noel Swerdlow U. Chicago S. Kenyon 03/06/03 Alex Szalay Johns Hopkins U. M. Geller 9/16/99 Harvey D. Tananbaum CfA Irwin Shapiro 4/16/98 Jill Tarter SETI Institute J. Moran 11/19/98 Susan Terebey Extrasolar Research Corp P. Myers 09/09/04 Caroline Terquem Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and Universite Paris 7 Planet-disk Interactions and Orbital Migration Matt Holman 5/10/01 Alan M. Title Stanford/Lockheed Dave Latham 3/30/00 John L. Tonry Hawaii Dave Latham 1996 Mar 7 Charles Townes UC Berkeley Stellar Interferometry in the Mid-infrared 05/02/02 Scott Tremaine Princeton U. I. Shapiro 2006/09/28 Christy Tremonti University of Arizona Post-starburst Galaxies and Fossil Galactic Winds: new constraints on feedback and the starburst-AGN connection Nelson Caldwell 1995 Sept 21 Jean Turner UCLA Molecular Gas in Galaxies 10/11/01 Michael Turner U. Chicago W. Forman 1996 Feb 15 Mike Turner U.Chicago 1996 Jan 11 David Tytler UCSD Detection and Characterization of Earth-like planets 2005/11/03 Stephane Udry University of Geneva From Hot Jupiters to Hot Neptunes and below David Latham 1996 November 7 Roger Ulrich UCLA 09/30/04 Meg Urry Yale University In Search of Supermassive Black Holes Antonella Fruscione 3/29/01 Alexey Vikhlinin IKI Moscow Bill Forman 2006/05/11 Alexey Vikhlinin CfA pH Lecture: Following the dynamics of the Universe with galaxy cluster counts Charles Alcock 2007/03/08 Faith Vilas MMT Observatory Probing Near-Earth Asteroid Characteristics: The Japanese Hayabusa Mission to Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Daniel Fabricant 2006/10/19 Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University The principle of mediocrity Doug Finkbeiner 12/17/98 James Voelkel MIT O. Gingerich 4/15/99 Michael Vogeley STScI Margaret Geller 1995 Sept 14 Steve Vogt UCSC High Resolution Spectroscopy with Keck 02/17/05 Marta Volonteri Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK Hierarchical Assembly of Massive Black Holes Martin Elvis 1996 December 5 Saeqa Vrtilek CfA 12/02/04 Ron Walsworth CfA Multidisciplinary applications with state-selected atoms Kelly Chance 11/5/98 Bill Ward JPL M. Lecar 09/20/01 Jerry Wasserburg Caltech I. Shapiro 09/19/02 Alycia Weinberger DTM L. Hartmann 3/18/99 Jack Welch UC Berkeley David Wilner 4/6/00 Martin White CfA Avi Loeb 1997 April 17 Simon D.M. White Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik The Formation of Galaxies 2/1/01 Frank Wilczek MIT Avi Loeb 1997 May 15 Robert E. Williams Space Telescope Science Institute 2007/04/05 Beth Willman CfA Clay Lecture: The Stellar Halos of Galaxies Charles Alcock 2006/05/04 David Wilner CfA Protoplanetary Disks: Analogs of the Early Solar System Philip Myers 10/04/01 Rogier Windhorst Arizona State S. Kenyon 1997 May 8 Arthur M. Wolfe University of California at San Diego On the Nature of the Damped Lyman Alpha Protogalaxies 1995 Dec 7 Alexander Wolsczcan Penn State Searches for Planetary Systems around Neutron Stars 4/19/01 Aleksander Wolszczan Penn State Dave Latham 10/8/98 Ned Wright UCLA S. Willner 1996 Mar 28 Gareth Wynn-Williams U.Hawaii Hot Dust in Galaxies 4/5/01 Rosemary F. G. Wyse Johns Hopkins Dave Latham 2007/02/08 Matias Zaldarriaga CfA Probing the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background Dimitar Sasselov 04/15/04 Lucy Ziurys Steward Observatory New Trends in Interstellar Chemistry: From Nucleosynthesis to Nucleic Acids Kate Kirby 1995 Sept 28 C. Zwaan U.Utrecht Magnetic Activity of Sun and Stars 2006/11/30 Ellen Zweibel University of Wisconsin Primordial Generation of Magnetic Fields Ed DeLuca 5/31/01 Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden Ramesh Narayan 04/13/05 Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden Observatory Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Lecture Charles Alcock 1/29/98 Jan van Paradijs U. Amsterdam J. Grindlay 10/1/98 Michiel van der Klis U. Amsterdam J. Grindlay
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