| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host |
| 09/11/03 |
Peter Hauschildt (Univ. of Hamburg) |
Model Atmospheres of M, L, and T dwarfs
|
Scott Kenyon (Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 09/18/03 |
Kathryn Johnston (Wesleyan University) |
Stellar Halos and Hierarchical Structure Formation
|
James Bullock (Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 09/25/03 |
Brian Fields (Univ. of Illinois) |
Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of the Cosmic Microwave
Background
|
Kentaro Nagamine (Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 10/02/03 |
Anton Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute) |
Extreme X-ray/Optical sources (EXOs): Probes of the High Redshift Universe
|
Harvey Tananbaum (High Energy Astrophysics) |
| 10/09/03 |
Don Lamb (Univ. of Chicago) |
Scientific highlights of the HETE-2 mission
|
Ramesh Narayan (Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 10/16/03 |
John Raymond (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) |
Coronal Mass Ejections Associated with the Most Powerful Solar Flares
|
John Kohl
(Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 10/23/03 |
Janet Drew (Imperial College London) |
A binary taxonomy brain-teaser: the first carbon-enhanced cataclysmic
variable
|
Scott Kenyon (Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 10/30/03 |
Charles Alcock (Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
Fishing in the Dark: Searching for extremely faint objects in the outer Solar System
|
Matthew Holman (Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 11/06/03 |
John Mather (Goddard Space Flight Center) |
The James Webb Space Telescope
|
Margaret Geller (Optical and Infrared Astronomy) |
| 11/13/03 |
Fred Adams ( University of Michigan) |
Chaotic Case Studies: Sensitive dependence on initial conditions
in star formation and planet formation
|
Charles Lada (Radio and Geoastronomy) |
| 11/20/03 |
Mitchell Begelman (Univ. of Colorado Boulder) |
Cooling Flows Sing the Blues
|
Aneta Siemiginowska (High Energy Astrophysics) |
| 11/27/03 |
Thanksgiving |
|
|
| 12/04/03 |
Jean Brodie (UC Observatories/Lick) |
Globular Cluster Sub-Populations and Galaxy
Assembly
|
John Huchra (Optical and Infrared Astronomy) |
| 12/11/03 |
Mario Biagioli (Harvard University) |
History of Astronomy Talk Distance and authority in early telescopic astronomy
|
Owen Gingerich (Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 12/18/03 |
Jacqueline Hewitt (MIT) |
LOFAR as a Radio Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope
|
Alyssa Goodman (Radio and Geoastronomy) |