| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host |
| 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
(Optical and Infrared Astronomy) |
| 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
( Radio and Geoastronomy) |
| 02/12/04 |
Mark Reid
(Center for Astrophysics) |
Must Sgr A* be a super-massive black hole?
|
David Wilner
(Radio and Geoastronomy) |
| 02/19/04 |
David Spergel
(Princeton University) |
WMAP and Beyond
|
Matias Zaldarriaga
(Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 02/26/04 |
Alan Marscher
(Institute for Astrophysical Research,Boston University) |
Spying on Blazars: Life in the Fast Lane
|
Martin Elvis
(High Energy Astrophysics) |
| 03/04/04 |
Ralph Pudritz
(McMaster University, Canada) |
The formation of star clusters - 3D simulations of hydrodynamic
turbulence in self-gravitating gas
|
Phil Myers
(Radio and Geoastronomy) |
| 03/11/04 |
Brad Hansen
(UCLA) |
The White Dwarf cooling sequence in the Globular Cluster Messier 4
|
Josh Grindlay
(High Energy Astrophysics ) |
| 03/18/04 |
Sara Seager
(Carnegie Institution of Washington) |
Bok Prize Lecture (shared)
Towards a Physical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
|
Dimitar Sasselov
(Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 03/18/04 |
Dave Charbonneau
(Caltech) |
Bok Prize Lecture (shared)
The Brown Dwarf Radial Velocity Survey
|
Robert Noyes
(Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 03/25/04 |
Annalisa Celotti
(International School for Advanced Studies, Italy) |
Jets in Active Nuclei: what are we learning?
|
Antonella Fruscione
(High Energy Astrophysics) |
| 04/01/04 |
Roger Chevalier
(University of Virginia) |
Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and their Supernovae
|
Robert Kirshner
(Optical and Infrared Astronomy) |
| 04/08/04 |
Deidre Hunter
(Lowell Observatory) |
The Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies
|
Margaret Geller
(Optical and Infrared Astronomy) |
| 04/15/04 |
Lucy Ziurys
(Steward Observatory) |
New Trends in Interstellar Chemistry: From Nucleosynthesis to Nucleic Acids
|
Kate Kirby
(Atomic and Molecular Physics) |
| 04/22/04 |
Paul Martini
(Center for Astrophysics Clay Fellow) |
Clay Fellow Symposium
The Feeding of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
|
Irwin Shapiro
(Director) |
| 04/29/04 |
Peter Goldreich
(Caltech) |
Sackler Lecture:
Final Stages of Planet Formation
|
Ramesh Narayan
(Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 05/06/04 |
Avishai Dekel
(The Hebrew University, Israel) |
The Characteristic Scale of Galaxy Formation
|
Abraham Loeb
(Theoretical Astrophysics) |
| 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
(Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences) |
| 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
(High Energy Astrophysics) |
| 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
(Director) |
| 06/03/04 |
Jarita Holbrook
(BARA - University of Arizona) |
Cultural Astronomy of Africa
|
Antonella Fruscione
(High Energy Astrophysics) |
