*2008*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January
February
	Ho Seong Hwang	Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)	"Merging between Galaxies and between Galaxy Clusters" (Abstract)
	Julia Scharwaechter	ESO	"Case Studies of QSO Host Galaxies" (Abstract)
March CTIO REU/PIA Miniworkshop	Adele Plunket Matthew Schenker Peter Mares Emily Lynch Emma Crow-Willard Macarena Campos Regis Cartier Amit Misra	Middlebury College Dartmouth College Cornell University Dartmouth College Occidental College Universidad de Concepción Universidad de Chile Case Western Reserve University	"Iron Abundances on Open Clusters Dwarfs: Pleiades" "Search for SW Sextantis Cataclysmic Variables" "Characterizing the Phase Space of Our Galactic Halo by Using Blue Horizontal Branch Stars as Distance Indicators" "Globular Clusters in NGC 3370" "The Brightest Cluster Galaxy Catalogue and Density Correlations Analysis" "HST Imaging Observations of z~1 Radio Sources and their Radio-optical Alignments" "Spectroscopy of Red X-ray Selected Quasars" "Impact of Galaxy Cluster Mergers on Radio Galaxies"
March	Erika Grundstrom	Vanderbilt University	"Studying Be Stars Using Optical Spectroscopy"
April
	James Beletic	Teledyne	"Scientific Detectors for Astronomy" (Abstract)
	Sidney Bludman	Universidad de Chile	"Our Recently Accelerating Universe" (Abstract)
	Roberta Humphreys	University of Minnesota	"The Cool Hypergiants -- Episodic Mass Loss, Convective Activity and Magnetic Fields" (Abstract)
	Kaspar Von Braun	IPAC	"Directly Determined Radii and Effective Surface Temperatures of Exoplanet Host Stars" (Abstract)
	Simon Krughoff	University of Washington	"Next Generations Surveys: Planning, Algorithms and Visualization" (Abstract)
May	William E. Harris	McMaster University	"Ages of the Halo Stars in E Galaxies" (Abstract)
	Gabriel Brammer	Yale University	"Red galaxies at z>3.5: is this an important epoch for feedback mechanisms in massive galaxies?" (Abstract)
	Oliver Schuetz	ESO	"Astromineralogy of Circumstellar Disks" (Abstract)
	Beth Biller	IfA - Hawaii	"An Imaging Survey for Extrasolar Planets around 45 Close, Young Stars with SDI at the VLT and MMT " (Abstract)
	Ann Marie Cody	Caltech	"Searching for Pulsation in Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars" (Abstract)
	Alan Whiting	University of Birmingham	"A Vision for the Compact-Aperture Telescope System" (Abstract)
	Mark Everett	Planetary Science Institute	"Groundwork for NASA's Kepler Mission: Creating the Kepler Input Catalog" (Abstract)
	Jayadev Rajagopal	CTIO/NGSC	"Dust Formation around Massive Evolved Stars: A High Angular Resolution Interferometric Study" (Abstract)
	Debra Fischer	San Francisco State University	"Mission to Alpha Centauri" (Abstract)
	S. Josephine Chan	Diamond Light Source	"Search for Evolved Objects: Candidates" (Abstract)
June	Quentin Parker	Macquarie University	"The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha Planetary Nebula Project: MASH"* (Abstract)
July	Karen Kinemuchi	Universidad de Concepcion	"Probing the Outer Halo Galactic Formation: The New SDSS dSph Galaxies and their Variable Stars" (Abstract)
August
September
October
November
December

*2007*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Kevin Heng	JILA, University of Colorado & Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	"Balmer-Dominated Shocks Revisited: Applications to SNR 1987A"
	Jacques Lepine	Universidade de Sao Paulo	"Properties of the Spiral Arms of the Galaxy Based on the Dynamics of Open Clusters"
	Marie Lemoine-Busserolle	Oxford Astrophysics, UK	"Mass and Kinematics of Late-type Galaxies (1.3 < z < 3.3) from the VVDS"
February
	Paul Francis	The Australian National University Mt. Stromlo Observatory	"What We don't Know About Oort Clouds"
	Catherine Espaillat	University of Michigan	"Probing the Gas and Dust of Transitional Disks"
	Hans Ulrich Käufl	Europen Southern Observatory (ESO)	"CRIRES: A High Resolution Infrared Spectrograph for ESO's VLT"
March
	Thomas Dall	Gemini Observatory	"V.S.O.P. - or: How to fix the Variable Sky"
	Tomotsugu Goto	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency	"The Physical Origin of E+A (Post-Starburst) Galaxies"
	Alceste Bonanos	Carnegie Institution of Washington	"The Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe"
	Amanda Bauer	University of Texas	"Stellar Mass Assembly: Combining Surveys and Observables for z < 1.6"
	Karen Lewis	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	"Long-Term Profile Variability of Double-Peaked Emission Line AGN"
	Sandro D'Odorico	ESO	"Current VLT Instrumentation Projects and Future Plans for VLT and ELT"
April
	Artie Hatzes	Thueringer Landessternwarte, Germany	"Extrasolar Planets and Stellar Oscillations of K Giant Stars"
	Karen Meech	IfA, University of Hawaii	"Origin of Earth's Oceans"
	Frank Winkler	Middlebury College	"SN 1006 at Age 1000 Years: Dazzling Star to Puzzling Remnant"
	Ricardo Salinas Aaron Romanowsky	Universidad de Concepción	"Where Dark Matter Shines - The "Star Pile" in Abell 545" "Early-type Galaxies: Dynamics and Dark Matter Dichotomies"
	Eric Pellegrini	Michigan State University	"Exploring an Alternative Equation for Star Forming Regions" (Abstract)
	Gayandhi De Silva	ESO	"Chemical Homogeneity in Galactic Star Clusters" (Abstract)
May	Sidney Bludman	Universidad de Chile Depto. de Astronomía	"Accelerated Cosmological Expansion: Phenomenology" (Abstract)
	Sidney Bludman	Universidad de Chile Depto. de Astronomía	"What Drives the Cosmological Acceleration?" (Abstract)
	Jon Fulbright	Johns Hopkins	"Early Science Results from the RAVE Survey" (Abstract)
	Valeriy Kravtsov	Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta	"U-based CMDs of the Metal-poor ([Fe/H < -1.0) Galactic Globular Clusters" (Abstract)
	Bruce Atwood	Ohio State University	"LBT and the MODS Spectrograph, a Brief Status Report" (Abstract)
	Alan Stockton	University of Hawaii	"Extended Emission-Line Regions around QSOs" (Abstract)
June
	Hans Zinnecker	Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam, Germany	"Giant Exo-planets around White Dwarfs?" (Abstract) & (Presentation in PDF)
	Peter Allen	Pennsylvania State University	"The Smallest Stars: Their Role in the Universe" (Abstract)
	Patrice Bouchet	Observatoire de Paris-Meudon	"SN 1987A: 20 Years Later" (Abstract)
	Susan Ilani Loubser	Centre for Astrophysics University of Central Lancashire, UK	"Stellar Populations Across cD Galaxies" (Abstract)
	Peter Frinchaboy	NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison	"Dark Matter and Tidal Disruption in the Local Group" (Abstract)
	Fred K.Y. Lo	National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Director)	"Mega-masers, Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant" (Abstract)
July	Shinky Oyabu	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency	"Deep Extragalactic Surveys around the Ecliptic Poles with AKARI" (Abstract)
	David James	Vanderbilt University	"Research Using the SMARTS Telescopes: Recent Highlights from the Astronomers of Fisk & Vanderbilt Universities" (Abstract)
	Paolo G. Calisse	Cardiff University	"Clover: A High-sensitivity Polarization Instrument for CMB B-mode Observations" (Abstract)
	Claus Tappert	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	"Are Pre-CVs really Pre-CVs?" (Abstract)
	Alan Stockton	IfA, University of Hawaii, & CTIO	"Massive Galaxies with Old Stellar Populations at High Redshifts - Part 2" (Abstract)
August	Pascal Fouque	Observatoire du Midi-Pyrenees (Toulouse)	"A New Calibration of Galactic Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relations from B to K Bands, and a Comparison to LMC PL Relations" (Abstract)
	Andreas Kaufer	Director La Silla Paranal Observatory, ESO	"Recent developments at the ESO La Silla Paranal Observatory" (Abstract)
	David Lee Nidever	University of Virginia	"New Discoveries in The Clouds" (Abstract)
	Michel Cure	Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile	"AstroMeteorology in the University of Valparaiso" (Abstract)
	Christina Papadaki	Royal Observatory of Belgium	"V2051 Oph After Superoutburst: Out of Plane Material and Unique Doppler Maps" (Abstract)
September	Thomas R. Geballe	Gemini Observatory, Hilo	"Oxygen-18 and the Origins of Hydrogen-deficient Carbon Stars and R Coronae Borealis Stars" (Abstract)
September	Povilas Palunas	University of Texas at Austin	"Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Early Universe" (Abstract)
October	Mark Lacy	Spitzer Science Centre	"The Host Galaxies of Dust-Reddened Quasars" (Abstract)
	Jayant Narlikar	Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics(IUCAA)	"A Critique of Standard Big Bang Cosmology" (Abstract)
	Charles F. Claver	NOAO/LSST	"An Update on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope" (Abstract)
November	Todd Henry	Georgia State University	"Spying on Your Southern Neighbors" (Abstract)
	Ian Robson	Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), UK	"Supercool Astronomy" (Abstract)
	Robert Blum	NOAO	"Dissecting Newly Born Massive Stars with NIFS" (Abstract)
	Ronald Mennickent	Universidad de Concepción, Chile	"Unveiling the Phenomenon of Double Periodic Variables" (Abstract)
	Philippe Delorme	Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Universite Joseph Fourier	"Looking for Cool Brown Dwarfs in Wide Field Surveys" (Abstract)
	Paul Vanden Bout	National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)	"Molecular Gas in the Early Universe - Prospects with ALMA (and Status of Construction) (Abstract)
December	Doug Geisler	Universidad de Concepción	"The M31 Globular Cluster System" (Abstract)
December	Keivan Stassun	Vanderbilt University, College of Arts and Science Department of Physics and Astronomy	"Empirical Constraints on the Physical Properties of Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs" (Abstract)

*2006*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Jason Harris	University of Arizona	"Stellar Archaeology in the Magellanic Clouds"
	Jordi Barr	Oxford University	"Multiwavelength Views of Clusters of Galaxies from Redshift 0 to 2.5"
	Gary Da Costa	Mt. Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatory Canberra, Australia	"Stellar Populations of dE Galaxies in Nearby Groups" (Presentation in PDF)
	Rodrigo Carrasco	Gemini South	"Structure of the Shapley Supercluster and Cluster Properties and Galaxy Population of Poor Galaxy Clusters at 0.2 < z < 0.5"
	Etienne Artigau	Universite de Montreal Gemini South	"T Dwarf Variability: Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations"
February
	Eric Gawiser	Yale University Gemini South	"The MUSYC Census of Protogalaxies at z=3"
	Katrina Exter	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias / Gemini South	"Spatially resolved spectroscopy of stellar and interstellar gas"
	Jason Harris	Steward Observatory / Gemini South	"Astrosynthesis: Explorations of star formation in nearby galaxies"
	Henry Lee	University of Minnesota / Gemini South	"The Infrared Luminosity-Metallicity Relation for Dwarf Irregular Galaxies in the Local Volume"
March
	Marc Sarazin	ESO	"European Site Testing Program for ELT: An Update" (Presentation in PDF)
	Kenji Bekki	University of New South Wales, Australia	"Globular Cluster Systems and Galaxy Formation" (Presentation in PDF) (Animations)
	Thomas P. Greene	NASA Ames Research Center	"Stellar Properties of Embedded Protostars"
April
April	Jay Farihi	Gemini Observatory	"Digging in the Stellar Graveyard"
May	Ginny McSwain	Yale University	"The Evolutionary Status of Be Stars"
June
	David C. Knauth	Northwestern University	"High-Resolution Survey of the Interstellar 7Li/6Li Isotope Ratio in the Solar Neighborhood"
	Jean-Rene Roy	Gemini Observatory	"Traffic at the Galactic Center and the Nature of IRS-8"
	Peter Manev Pessev	Space Telescope Science Institute	"Integrated Light Properties of Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters"
July	Bengt Edvardsson	Uppsala University	"Subgiant Stars as Probes of Galactic Evolution"
	Ovidiu Vaduvescu	UKZN & SAAO, South Africa	"Infrared Properties of Star Forming Dwarf Galaxies"
	Ilona Soechting	UK Gemini Support Group Dept. of Astrophysics	"FSVS Cluster Catalogue - Exploring the Intermediate Redshift Range"
August	Félix Mirabel	ESO/Chile	"Microquasars"
August	Damien Gratadour	Gemini	"Studying Active Galactic Nuclei at High Resolution in the Near-IR: Adaptive Optics and Image Restoration"
September	Rene Fassbender	Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Garching,Germany	"Finding X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters at z>1"
October	David Silva	AURA / TMT	"The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Overview and Status"
	Alan Stockton	IfA, University of Hawaii & CTIO	"Morphologies of Massive Galaxies with Old Stellar Populations at High Redshifts"
	Roberto Mignani	Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory	"Comprehensive Studies of Planetary Nebulae with On-Line Catalogues"
	Juan Carlos Forte	Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina	"The Globular Cluster-Halo Connection in Elliptical Galaxies"
	Donald Lynden-Bell	Institute of Astronomy & Clare College, Cambridge, UK	"Why Jets?"
	Vincent Coude du Foresto	Observatoire de Paris	"Revealing the Inner Part of Debris Disks with Infrared Interferometry"
November	Kenneth J. Rines	Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	"Cosmology with the Mass Function of Galaxy Clusters"
	Sangeeta Malhotra	School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University	"Reionization Constraints from ly-alpha Emmiters at z=6.5"
	Michael Wood-Vasey	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	"The ESSENCE of Dark Energy"
	Timothy Davidge	Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics National Research Council of Canada	"Comparing Predictions from Spectra with the Resolved Stellar Content of M32"
December	Mariska Kriek	Leiden University (The Netherlands)	"Clues on Massive Galaxy Formation at z~2.5 from NIR Spectroscopy"

*2005*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Dr. Jacques Beckers	Chicago University	“Interferometric Imaging in Astronomy: A Personal Retrspective” (Presentation in PDF)
	Prof. Davis D. Sentman	University of Alaska	“Recent Discoveries of Electrical Breakdown Phenomena in the Atmospheric D-Region above Thunderstorms” (Presentation in PDF)
	Prof. Michael Ashley	University of New South Wales	"Extremely Large Telescopes in Antarctica" (Presentation in PDF)
February	Scott Dahm	University of Hawaii	"The Origin and Evolution of Low Mass Stars in Young Galactic Clusters"
	Jasonjot Kalirai	Lick Observatory	“Studies of White Dwarfs: in the Field and in Star Clusters"
	Rubén Diaz	National University of Cordoba	"Fueling Mechanisms of Activity in Galaxies"
	Romano Corradi	Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Spain	"The Study of Planetary Nebulae With Large Telescopes" (Presentation in PDF)
	Damien Gratadour	Meudon Observatory (ONERA)	“Adaptive Optics and Image Restoration - Study of Archetypal AGNs with NAOS-CONICA”
	Gordon Richards	Princeton University	“Quasars and Cosmology: Accretion Related Feedback and the Growth of Galaxies” (Presentation in PDF)
	Dara Norman	CTIO	"Quasars and Dark Matter Overdensities"
	Lucas Macri	Hubble/Goldberg Fellow	"Improving the Cepheid Distance Scale" (Presentation in PDF)
	Tim Kendall	Laboratoire d' Astrophysique Observatoire de Grenoble	"Wide-field Imaging Surveys for Complete, Coeval Brown Dwarf Populations in Young Stellar Clusters"
	Sandra Savaglio	Johns Hopkins	"Metal enrichment of the interstellar medium over cosmic time"
	John Blakeslee	Johns Hopkins	“12 Billion Years of Galaxy Evolution in Clusters” (Presentation in PDF)
	Susan Ridgway	Johns Hopkins	“The Evolution and Luminosity Dependence of Quasar Host Galaxies”
	Steven Margheim	Indiana University	"Precision Stellar Abundances"
	Oliver Shuetz	Max Plank Institut	"Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Disks"
March	Adwin Boogert	Caltech	“Interstellar Ices, from Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks” (Presentation in PDF)
	Daniel Reichart	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	"Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes"
	Ivan Baldry	Johns Hopkins	“Galaxy Bimodality, Evolution and the SDSS U-band Galaxy Survey” (Presentation in PDF)
	Knut Olsen	CTIO	“Tracing M31's Bulge and Disk Stellar Populations with Gemini” (Presentation in PDF)
	Mark Gieles	Ultrecht University	“The Evolution of Star Cluster Populations” (Presentation in PDF)
	Aaron Romanowsky	Universidad de Concepción	“Dark Matter and Dynamics in Galaxy Halos”
	Kevin Luhman	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	“The Origin of Brown Dwarfs”
April	Maren Hempel	Michigan State University	“Globular Cluster Populations in Early-Type Galaxies”
	Roberto De Propris	University of Bristol	“Galaxy Formation and Evolution” (Presentation in PDF)
	Simon Driver	Australian National University Canberra	“Cosmology, Galaxies and Galaxy Structure” (Presentation in PDF)
	Félix Mirabel	ESO/Chile	“Microquasars” (Presentation in PDF)
	Victor Krabbendam Nicholas Suntzeff Abhijit Saha Christopher Miller	LSST/CTIO	“LSST Project” (V. Krabbendam Presentation (PDF)) (A. Saha Presentation (PDF))
	Stephen S. Eikenberry	University of Florida	“Black Holes and Long-necked Birds: The FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey”
May	Andrei Tokovinin	CTIO	“Turbulence at Cerro Pachon from MASS, DIMM, and SODAR”
May	Doug Geisler	Universidad de Concepción	“The SIMple Life”
June	Rachel Mason	NGSC – NOAO Gemini Science Center	“Infrared Spectroscopy of Nearby Galaxies: Implications for the Nature and Distribution of the Dust”
	Laerte Sodré, Jr.	Instituto Astronómico y Geofísico (IAG) Universidad de Sao Paulo	“Spectral Synthesis of SDSS Galaxies”
	Evgenya Shkolnik	NASA Astrobiology Institute University of Hawaii, Manoa	“Magnetized Exoplanets”
July	Stephen Eikenberry	University of Florida Department of Astronomy	“A Near-IR Integral Field Spectrograph for the Kitt Peak 4-meter” (Presentation in PDF)
August
September	Varsha Kulkarni	University of South Carolina	"Quasar Absorption Systems as Probes of Galaxy Evolution"
	Alan Whiting	CTIO	"The Local Group Dwarf Hunt"
	Alan Whiting	CTIO	"The Combined Small Telescope Observatory"
October	Bernadette Rodgers	Gemini South	"HAEBE Binary Project: First Results"
	Bryan Miller	Gemini South	"The Globular Cluster and Nuclei of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies"
	Michael West	University of Hawaii	"Reconstructing Galaxy Histories: New Insights from Globular Clusters"
November	Sandrine Thomas	NOAO / CTIO	"Tertiary Companions to Close Spectroscopic Binaries" (Presentation in PDF)
	Styliani Kafka	NOAO / CTIO	"Hyperactivity on the Secondary Star of AM Her"
	Eduardo Cypriano	SOAR/LNA	"Fossil Groups, Compact Groups and High-z Galaxy Clusters with the Gemini Telescopes" (Presentation in PDF)
December	Chow-Choong Ngeow	University of Illinois (UC)	"Non-linearity of the Cepheid PL Relation: An Old Subject with a New Twist" (Presentation in PDF)
	Inese I. Ivans	Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena	"New Insights into the Nature of r-Process-Rich Stars"
	Hektor Monteiro	Dept. Physics & Astronomy Georgia State University	"Ages of White Dwarf-Red Subdwarf Systems"
	Carlos Alexandre Wuensche	INPE (Intututo Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Divisão de Astrofísica	"The Zunyaev-Zel' dovich Effect" (Presentation in PDF)

*2004*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Dr. Arlin Crotts	Columbia University	“Evidence of Halo Microlensing in M31”
	Dr. Hugo E. Schwarz	CTIO	"Circumstellar Matter in PNe and Other Evolved Stars"
	Dr. Eugene Stansbery Dr. John Africano	NASA Boeing	"NASA and Observing the Orbital Debris Environment"
	Dr. Linda Schmidtobreick	ESO	"Old Novae and The Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables"
	Dr. Thierry Courvoisier	Observatoire de Geneve	"The INTEGRAL Mission and Its First Results"
February	Dr. Jeremy Mould	NOAO	“The Long Period Variables of M31”
	Dr. Patrick Hall	Princeton University	“Dust and Quasars”
	Dr. Mariangela Bernardi	Carnegie Mellon University	“Evolution, Environment and Mass of Early-type Galaxies: Constraints of Models of Galaxy Formation”
	Dr. Thomas Matheson	Harvard-Smithonian CfA	“Spectroscopic Evidence for the Supernova/Gamma-Ray Burst Connection: A Mystery Solved?”
	Dr. Danielle Alloin	ESO	“Molecular Material in the Vicinity of the Central Engine in NGC 1068: Distribution, Kinematics and Excitation”
	Dr. Dean McLaughlin	Space Telescope Science Institute	“The Fundamental Plane of Globular Clusters”
	Dr. Trevor Miles	University of Birmingham	“Multiwavelength Observations of Nearby Groups of Galaxies”
	Dr. Ravi Sheth	University of Pittsburgh	“In Halos We Trust”
March	Mr. Hektor Monteiro	CTIO	“3D Photoionization Modeling of NGC 6369”
	Dr. Christopher Miller	Carnegie Mellon University	“Current and Future Science with Large Astronomical Databases”
	Dr. Marla Geha	Carnegie Observatories	“Internal Dynamics, Structure and Formation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies”
	Dr. James De Buizer	CTIO	“Born in Shadows: The Quest to Understand Massive Star Formation”
	Dr. Dara Norman	CTIO	“Are Quasars Associated with Dark Matter Overdensities?”
	Dr. Roelof de Jong	Space Telescope Science Institute	“Dark and Luminous Matter in Nearby Galaxies”
	Dr. Elizabeth Barton	University of Arizona	“The Role of Starbusts in the Evolution of Galaxies”
	Dr. Lisa Prato	UCLA	“Young Low-Mass Star & Brown Dwarf Binaries: Dynamical Mass Ratios and Masses”
April	Dr. Eduardo Cypriano	SOAR	“Disentangling Massive Galaxy Clusters with Gravitational Lensing and Other Techniques”
	Dr. Rashid Sunyaev	Max Planck Institut, Garching	“Clusters of Galaxies as a Tool for Cosmology”
	Dr. Martin M. Roth Dr. Sebastian F. Sanchez	Astrophysicalisches Institut Potsdam	“Promoting Integral Field Spectroscopy in Europe: First Results from the EURO3D Collaboration” “E3D, the EURO3D Visualization Tool – A Software Demonstration with First Results from VIMOS-IFU”
	Dr. Bill Harris	McMaster University	“Globular Clusters and the Oldest Field Stars: Collisions and Challenges”
May	Dr. Dan Jaffee	University of Texas	“High Resolution Spectroscopy of Star Forming Regions in the Mid-IR”
	Dr. John Bally	University of Colorado	“Feedback in Star Formation: The Impact of Protostellar Outflows”
	Dr. Silas Laycock	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	“The Chandra Multiwavelength Plane Survey (ChaMPlane)”
June	Dr. Angelle M. Tanner	JPL/Caltech	“Resolving the Enigmatic Northern Arm Sources in the Galactic Center”
	Dr. John Huchra	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	“2Mass a New Map of the Nearby Universe”
	Dr. Kurtis Williams	University of Arizona	“White Dwarfs in Open Star Clusters: The Lower Mass Limit for Core-Collapse Supernovae and the White Dwarf Deficit”
July	Dr. Brad Schaefer	Louisiana State University	“Case Studies of Three of the Most Famous Claimed Archaeoastronomical Alignments in North America”
	Dr. Inese Ivans	Hubble Fellow at Caltech	“Chemical Clues to Tracing the Construction of the Halo”
	Dr. Chris Clemens	University of North Carolina	“Observations of Nonradial Pulsations in Radio Pulsars”
August	Dr. Gastón Folatelli	Las Campanas Observatory	“Quantitative Spectral Analysis of Type Ia Supernovae”
	Dr. Alan B. Whiting	CTIO	“Light and Motion in the Local Volume”
	Dr. Eric Gawiser	Universidad de Chile	“MUSYC: A Square-degree UBVRIzJHK Survey of the Formatiom and Evolution of Galaxies”
	Dr. Knut Olsen	CTIO	“The Disks of Nearby Galaxies”
September	Miss Dijana Domini	Universitaet Potsdam, Berlin	“Gravitational Microlensing by Binary Stars”
September	Dr. David Spergel	Princeton University	“WMAP and Beyond”
October	Dr. Alan B. Whiting	CTIO	“You can't get there from here: Hubble Relaxation in the Local Volume”
November	Dr. Karen Meech	University of Hawaii	“Astrobiology at UH: Water and Life in the Universe”
	Dr. Dennis Crabtree	DAO/HRC National Research Council Victoria, Canada	"Observatory Papers and Citations: What do the Numbers Really Show?"
	Dr. Arlin Crotts	Columbia University	“Status and Prospects for Large, Liquid-Mirror Telescopes”
	Dr. Michael Wood-Vasey	Harvard University	“The Strange Case of SN 2002ic”
	Dr. David Spergel	Princeton University	“Cosmology Lecture Series” (Lectures in PDF Format: Lect. 1, Lect. 2, Lect. 3, Lect. 4, Lect. 5)
December

*2003*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Dr. James Muzerolle	Steward Observatory	"Accretion of Young Stellar Objects"
	Dr. Christoph Keller	National Solar Observatory	"Solar Adaptive Optics"
	Dr. Patrick Hall	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	"Broad Absortion Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - and Beyond !"
February	Dr. J. Allyn Smith	Los Alamos National Laboratory	"Plans for Calibration of the SNAP Spacecraft"
	Dr. Kathy Romer	Carnegie Mellon University	"Searching For Clusters of Galaxies"
	Dr. Kem Cook	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	"Extracting Science from Time Domain Surveys: The MACHO and SuperMacho Experience "
	Dr. Nathan Smith	University of Colorado	"Proplyds, Jets, and Star Formation in the Carina Nebula"
March	Dr. Lucas Macri	NOAO	"The Metallicity Dependence of the Cephied Period-Luminosity Relation"
March	Dr. Eric Mamajek	Steward Observatory	"Post-T Tauri Stars in the Nearest OB Association"
April	Dr. Dave James	Observatoire de Grenoble	"The Perfect Cosmic Laboratories: - Open Clusters"
	Mr. Wayne Barkhouse	University of Toronto	"Wide-Field Imaging Survey of Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters"
	Dr. Hans M. Maitzen	University of Vienna	"Magnetic Stars (of the Upper Main Sequence) in the Galactic Context"
May	Dr. Doug Geisler	Universidad de Concepción	" "Sculptor"-ing the Galaxy? "
May	Mr. Anil Seth	University of Washington	"Not Quite Points of Light: Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Dwarves"
June
July	Professors Barbara Anthony-Twarog & Bruce Twarog	University of Kansas	I. "Precision Photometry of Open Clusters: Latest Results" II. "An Ultra-Light Telescope for Research in Astronomy"
	Dr. George Wallerstein	University of Washington	"The Sculptor Galaxy and the Formation of the Halo"
	Mr. Juan F. Albacete C.	Universidad de La Plata, Argentina	"XMM-Newton X-Ray Observations of the Carina Nebula"
August	Mr. Wladimir Lyra	Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro, Brasil	“Fine Structure of the Chromospheric Activity in Solar-Type Stars: The Ha Line”
August	Mr. Sergio Vera	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	“Caracterización del Espectrómetro Oceanoptics”
September	Dr. James A. Harvin	University of Delaware	"The massive Close Binary Star in Delta Orionis"
October	Dr. Wei Zheng	Johns Hopkins University	“Reionization History of Intergalactic Helium between Redshift 2 and 3: New Result from with FUSE and VLT”
	Dr. Percy Gómez	Gemini Observatory	“Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observations of Clusters of Galaxies”
	Dr. Alan Whiting	CTIO	“Presenting Scientific Results”
	Dr. Faith Vilas	NASA Johnson Space Center)	“Probing Asteroid Evolution Using Reflectance Spectroscopy”
	Dr. Alistair Walker	CTIO	“Wide Field Imaging of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy”
	Dr. Verne Smith	University of Texas	“Comparative Chemical Evolution Beyond the Milky Way”
	Prof. Harvey Richer	University of British Columbia	“A Pulsar a Young White Dwarf and the Oldest Known Planet”
	Dr. Stuart Lumdsen	University of Leeds, UK	“Unification and Diversity in the Local AGN Population”
	Dr. Virpi Niemela	Observatorio de La Plata, Argentina	“Massive Binaries with WR Spectra”
	Dr. Matthias Dietrich	Georgia State University	“Quasars at High Redshifts and Early Star Formation Epochs”
November	Dr. Sergei Nokolaev	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	“Geometry of the LMC Disk: Results from MACHO and 2MASS”
December	Miss Karen Lewis	Pennsylvania State University	“The Radial Structure of SNR N103B - Relic of Explosive Nucleosynthesis?”
	Dr. Rolf Chini	Bochum University, Germany	“First Direct Evidence of Massive Star Formation”
	Dr. George Jacoby	WIYN Observatory	“Deriving Properties of Nearby Galaxies with the WIYN Telescope”
	Dr. Sangeeta Malhotra	STScI	“Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey: Finding Young Galaxies in a Young Universe”

*2002*
*Month*	*Speaker*	*Institution*	*Title*
January	Dr. Solange V. Ramírez	Cal Tech	"Abundances in Stars from the Red Giant Branch Tip to the Near the Main Sequence Turn Off in M71"
January	Dr. Ian Robson	Joint Astronomy Center Hilo, U. of Hawaii	"The SCUBA Revolution"
February	Dr. Norbert Hubin	ESO

Past Seminars at CTIO