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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| January | Asa Bluck | Gemini North Science Fellow & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies and Their
Supermassive Black Holes Over the Past 12 Billion Years" (Abstract) |
| Amy Kimball |
NAASC Post-doctoral Fellow National Radio Astronomy Observatory & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Radio Luminosity Function of Optically-Selected QSOs:
Star Formation and AGNs" (Abstract) |
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| Catrina Hamilton-Drager | Dickinson College and NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Complex Variability of the H-alpha Emission Line Profile
of KH 15D: Evidence of Pulsed Accretion and Gas Flows from the
Circumbinary Disk" (Abstract) |
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| Alexandre Roman Lopes | Universidad de La Serena, Deparment of Physics & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"SOAR-OSIRIS NIR Survey of High-mass Stars in the
Periphery of Galactic Massive Stellar Clusters: Westerlund 2 and
NGC3603" (Abstract) |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| January | Lisa Winter | University of Colorado & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"A Multi-wavelength Survey of Outflows in Local Seyfert 1s"
(Abstract) |
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Michihiro Takami & Jennifer Karr |
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan & NOAO South Visiting Astronomers |
"Extended Infrared Emission
Associated with Protostars: Views from Spitzer IRAC" (Abstract)
"Probing the Nature of Low
Luminosity YSOs" |
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| February | |||
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Belinda Nicholson & Steven Saffin |
University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide (AGUSS - Asutralia Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentship Program 2010/2011) |
"Observations of Herbig Ae/Be
Stars with NICI: Searching for Companions" "The Formation History of Massive Luminous BCGs" |
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| Mark Casali | European Southern Observatory, Head of Instrumentation & Gemini South Visiting Scientist |
"Instrumentation at ESO - Successes, Failures and
Challenges" (Abstract) |
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| Nathan Smith | University of Arizona & Gemini South Visiting Astronomers |
"Supernovae with Dense Circumstellar Material" (Abstract) |
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| Randa Asa'd | University of Cincinnati & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Investigating the Methods of
Finding the Ages of the LMC Star Clusters" (Abstract) |
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March |
Alexandre Roman-Lopes | Universidad de La Serena |
"Two New Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
in Circinus" (Abstract) |
| Chun Ly | Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Universe as Viewed from
Star-forming Galaxies over the Past 10 Billion Years" (Abstract) |
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| Fabio Pereira Santos | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"NIR Photometry and Optical
Polarimetric Survey of Galactic Star Forming Regions: Sources in
the Vela Molecular Ridge" (Abstract) |
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| Pat Hartigan | Rice University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"HST Movies of Fluid Dinamics within
Stellar Jets" (Abstract) |
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| Mubdi Rahman | University of Toronto & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Understanding Galactic Star
Formation: Young, Massive Star-Forming Complexes in the Milky
Way" (Abstract) |
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| April | |||
| Santi Cassisi | Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Multiple Stellar Populations in
Galactic Globular Clusters: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical
Insights" (Abstract) |
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| Kyle Mede | University of Victoria & Gemini DPD Intern |
"The Recipe System, Gemini's Next Generation Data
Reduction Software Suite" (Abstract) |
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| May | Howard E. Bond | Space Telescope Science Institute & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"V838 Monocerotis and the New Class
of Intermediate-Luminosity Red Transients" (Abstract) |
| Peter Eisenhardt | Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE" (Abstract) |
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| Nicholas Konidaris | California Institute of Technology, Astronomy Department (Caltech) & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Dissecting
the Universe with a New Generation of Spectrographs" (Abstract) |
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| Tim Morris | University of Durham & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Results from the CANARY On-sky MOAO
Demonstrator" (Abstract) |
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| Ashley Pagnotta | Louisiana State University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The 2010 Eruption of the Recurrent
Nova U Scorpii" (Abstract) |
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| Nelson Padilla | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Evolution of Early-type
Galaxies Selected by Their Spatial Clustering" (Abstract) |
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June |
Carl Grillmair | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology (IPAC Caltech) & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Probing Galactic Dark Matter
with Stellar Debris Streams" (Abstract) |
| Eric Mamajek | Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Nearest, Youngest Stars:
Planet Formation Theatre" (Abstract) |
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| Louis-Gregory Strolger | Department of Physics & Astronomy, Western Kentucky University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Constraints on the Type Ia
Supernova Progenitors from Hubble Space Telescope Treasury
Surveys" (Abstract) |
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| Juan Estrada |
Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics & NOAO South Visiting Scientist |
"The Dark Energy Survey (DES)" (Abstract) |
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| Catherine Espaillat | NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Planet Formation in Dusty Disks Around Young Stars" (Abstract) |
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| David Nataf | Ohio State University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Red Giant Branch Bump as a
Tracer of Helium Enrichment in the Galactic Bulge" (Abstract) |
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| Rodrigo Carrasco | Gemini South |
"The Multi-component BCG in the Core of Abell 3827 Galaxy
Cluster: The Most Massive Galaxy in the Local Universe?" (Abstract) |
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| July | Olivier Guyon | Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Subaru Coronagraphic Extrema-AO (SCExAO) System" (Abstract) |
| Douglas Geisler | Universidad de Concepción & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Nine Lives of Omega Centauri" (Abstract) |
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| Tim Butterley | Centre of Advanced Instrumentation, University of Durham, UK & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Slope Detection and Ranging (SLODAR)" (Abstract) |
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| August | Felipe Colazo | Gemini Science Intern |
"Finalizing Target Selection and Preparation for 2010-2011
GeMS Commissioning Runs" (Abstract) |
| Cecilia Fariña | Universidad Nacional de La Plata & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Unveiling the New Generation of Stars in NGC604 with
Gemini-NIRI" (Abstract) |
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September |
Brian Keeney | University of Colorado & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Probing Galaxies Through Quasar Absorption Lines with HST/COS" (Abstract) |
| Julia Campa | SIEMAT-Madrid, Spain & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Measuring the Scatter in the Mass-richness Relation for
Galaxy Clusters Using the Correlation Function" (Abstract) |
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| October | Rachel Kuzio de Naray | Royal Military College of Canada, Physics Department & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Dark Matter in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" (Abstract) |
| Francesco Di Mille | Australian Magellan Fellow, Las Campanas Observatory (OCIW) & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Discovery of a High-collimated outflow from Sanduleak's
Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud" (Abstract) |
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| Francesco Di Mille | Australian Magellan Fellow, Las Campanas Observatory (OCIW) & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Discovery of a High-collimated outflow from Sanduleak's
Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud" (Abstract) |
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| Claudia Winge | Gemini South |
"Gemini Queue Operation: From Phase I
to Gemini Science Archive" (Abstract) |
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| Zhenya Zheng |
Arizona State University and University of Science and
Technology of China. NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Lyman-alpha Emitters at Redshift Z~4.5: Luminosity
Functions, Clustering and Lyman-alpha Equivalent Width
Distribution" (Abstract) |
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| November | Simon O'Toole | Australian NGO Office & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Life and Times of Planets and
Brown Dwarfs: New Directions and New Frontiers" (Abstract) |
| December | Aaron M. Geller | WCAS Northwestern University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Binary Star Populations in Young Open Clusters" (Abstract) |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| January | Felipe Menanteau | Rutgers University | "Massive Clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Survey" |
| Matteo Monelli | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
"The ACS LCID Project: Star Formation
Histories of Isolated Galaxies in the Local Group" (Abstract) |
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| Martin Altman | Zentrum für Astronomie, Astronomisches Rechenzentrum der Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
"Preparing for Gaia: Getting Ready for the Biggest Revolution
in Galactic Astronomy" (Abstract) |
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| Dimitri Gadotti | ESO, Santiago |
"The Joint Formation of Bulges and Black Holes" (Abstract) |
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| February | |||
| John Grunsfeld | Deputy Director, Space Telescope Science Institute |
"Recent Servicing Missions to the Hubble Space Telescope" (Abstract) |
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| Courtney Jones | University of Tasmania | Australian Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentship Program"Metallicity of the Hyades and Praesepe clusters: spectral analysis of solar type stars" | |
| Daniel Burdett | University of Adelaide | Australian Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentship Program "Intermediate-age star clusters in merger remnant galaxies" | |
| Fernanda Urrutia | IAG/University of Sao Paulo, Brazil & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Characterizing Star-formation in the Intergalactic Medium as
Products of Galaxy Encounters" (Abstract) |
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| Emily Down | University of Oxford & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Orientation of Accretion Disks and Jets in Quasars" (Abstract) |
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| Stella Kafka | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM)Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) |
"Activity on the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables: Nature or Nurture?" (Abstract) |
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| Sergio Dieterich | Georgia State University |
"Understanding the Stellar / Brown Dwarf Transition Region:
An Overview of Observational Efforts Aimed at Distinguishing
Stars from Brown Dwarfs" (Abstract) |
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March |
Bruce Macintosh | LLNL & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer | "Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets: Present and Future" |
| Leslie Saddlemyer | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, NRC Canada & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"A Technical Tour Through the Gemini Planet
Imager (GPI)" (Abstract) |
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| Philip Lah | Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories |
"Measuring the Gas Content of Distant Galaxies Using the
Optical Redshifts" (Abstract) |
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| Andrew Gosling | Oxford University & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"A Complex X-Ray and Infrared Environment Around the Galactic
Centre" (Abstract) |
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| Michel Strauss | Princeton University |
"The Clustering of Quasars from z=0 to z=6" (Abstract) |
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| April | |||
| Andrew Skemer | Steward Observatory & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Mid-IR Adaptive Optics with the MMT Adaptive Secondary" (Abstract) |
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| Rubén Díaz | Gemini and CTIO SciStaff Candidate | "Light Cores Behind Dark Masks" | |
| Katelyn Allers | Bucknell University |
"Needles in the Haystack: Efficient Methods for Finding
Young Brown Dwarfs" (Abstract) |
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| Graeme Salter | Oxford University and Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"High Contrast Observations with Slicer-Based Integral-Field
Spectrographs" (Abstract) |
|
| Marco Pedani | University of Arizona and CTIO SciStaff Candidate | "Surveys for High-Redshift Radio QSOs Very-Low Resolution NIR Spectroscopy with 4-m Class Telescopes" | |
| Yara Jaffe | University of Nottingham and Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Effect of the Environment on the Tully-Fisher Relation" (Abstract) |
|
| Kate Barnes | University of Indiana |
"UV Photometry of Star Forming Regions in the Outer
Disks of Nearby Spiral Galaxies" (Abstract) |
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| David James |
Assistant Professor,
Director of 36" Hoku Ke`a Telescope, Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Hawai'i at Hilo and CTIO SciStaff Candidate |
"Darwinism in the Heavens: Open Clusters, Stellar
Evolution and Calibrating the Ages of Stars" (Abstract) |
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| Jason Cook | NASA Ames Research Center & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Pluto's Atmosphere: The Quest to Find CO" (Abstract) |
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| María Morales Calderón | IPAC |
"YSOVAR: Young Stellar Object Variability" (Abstract) |
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| Jillian Bornak | New Mexico State University |
"DIRTY Work: Modeling the Dust Formation and Evolution in
Classical Novae" (Abstract) |
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| May | Erica Ellingson | University of Colorado |
"High Redshift Clusters from the RCS Survey" (Abstract) |
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Cristina Thomas and John Kistler |
Northern Arizona University |
"A Comprehensive Ground-based Observing Campaign for
Spitzer-observed NEOs" (Abstract) |
|
| Adam Kowalski | University of Washington |
"A White Light Megaflare on the dM4.5e Star YZ CMi" (Abstract) |
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June |
Swara Ravindranath | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India |
"Gaining weight and Getting into Shape? - HST/WFC3
morphology of Galaxies at z=2" (Abstract) |
| Karen Meech | University of Hawaii & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Small Body Space Missions - New Insights into Comets
(or Why No Telescope is Safe from Mission Support Requests...) (Abstract) |
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| Tolga Guver | University of Arizona |
"Measuring the Distances, Masses and Radii of Neutron
Stars in X-Ray Binaries" (Abstract) |
|
| Margaret Hanson | Professor of Physics University of Cincinnati |
"Improving Mass and Age Estimates of Unresolved Stellar
Clusters" (Abstract) |
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| July | Jared Stensland | Middlebury College |
"Searching for Massive Star Clusters around Luminous Blue
Variables (LBVs)" (Abstract) |
| Andy Young | Astrophysics Group, University of Bristol |
"X-raying
Black Hole Accretion Flows" (Abstract) |
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| August | Sebastián Hidalgo | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
"The LCID Project: The Signature of Cosmic and Local
Phenomena on the Star Formation History of Dwarf Galaxies" (Abstract) |
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Fabio Falchi (Curriculum Vitae) |
Cielo Buio, Italy & OPCC Visiting Scientist |
"Light Pollution: The Global View" (Abstract) |
|
| Linda French | Illinois Wesleyan University & CTIO Visiting Astronomer |
"Hearing with the Eye: The Life and Work of John
Goodricke" (Abstract) |
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| David Hanes | Queen's University & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Solar Neutrinos and Dark Matter: Recent Discoveries and Future Promise -
Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University, Canada"
(Abstract) |
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| Michael Childress | Lawrence Berkeley Lab & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae" (Abstract) |
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| Peter McGregor | Australian National University & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI)" (Abstract) |
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| Brennan McKinney | University of Victoria & Gemini DPD Intern |
"An Overview of the AURA Unified Release" (Abstract) |
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| James Bauer | Jet Propulsion Lab & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Highlights of WISE Solar System Science" (Abstract) |
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| James Bauer | Jet Propulsion Lab & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Highlights of WISE Solar System Science" (Abstract) |
|
| Curtis DeWitt | University of Florida & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Near-infrared Counterparts of Chandra X-ray Sources
toward the Galactic Center" (Abstract) |
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| Jae-Woo Lee | Astronomy and Space Science, Sejong University & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Multiple Populations of GCs Seen from Ca uvby Photometry" (Abstract) |
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September |
David Rodríguez | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Identifying Nearby, Young, Low-mass Stars Using GALEX" (Abstract) |
| October | Janine Pforr |
University of Portsmouth & NOAO South Visiting Astronomer |
"Photometric Redshifts of SERVS Galaxies" (Abstract) |
| November | David Harker |
University of California, San Diego & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Gemini Mid-Infrared Observations of Comets" (Abstract) |
| Kathy Cooksey | Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic CIV and SiIV Evolution"
(Abstract) |
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| December | Ricardo Carrera | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
"The Star Formation and Chemical Evolution Histories of
the Magellanic Clouds" (Abstract) |
| Jennifer Tigner | University of Victoria, Co-operative Education Program, Gemini South Visiting Studies | "Commissioning Activities for GSAOI (Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager)" | |
| Andrés Guesalaga | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Gemini South Visiting Scientist |
"Astronomical Instrumentation Activities at PUC" (Abstract) |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| January | Soeren Meibom | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
"The Rotational Evolution of Low-mass Stars" (Abstract) |
| John Martin | University of Illinois, Springfield |
"Eta Carinae: Example, Problem Child, or Both?" (Abstract) |
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| Catrina Hamilton-Drager | Dickinson College |
"Reflected Light from Sand Grains in the Terrestrial
Zone of a Protoplanetary Disk" (Abstract) |
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| Asa Bluck (G) | University of Nottingham, UK & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Extreme Galaxies from the Edge of the Universe" (Abstract) |
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| Philip Appleton | NASA Herschel Science Center, Caltech |
"The Coexistence of Powerful Molecular Hydrogen and X-ray
emission from the Giant shock-wave in Stephan's Quintet" (Abstract - TBD) |
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| Matthew J. Richter (G) | Physics Department, University of California at Davis & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"High-resolution Spectroscopy in the mid-IR: TEXES and
EXES" (Abstract) |
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| Stuart Ryder (G) |
Australian Gemini Office Anglo-Australian Observatory & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Supernovae as Revealed by Gemini" (Abstract) |
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| February | |||
| Sebastien Lepine | American Museum of Natural History |
"The
SUPERBLINK Proper Motion Survey: A Voice for the Common Star" (Abstract) |
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| Christopher Onken | Australian Gemini Office & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer | "Echoes of Distant Black Holes" | |
| Antonio M. Magalhaes | Universidade de Sao Paulo |
"Starlight Polarization: A Tool for Studying the Magnetic
Field Structure of the ISM" (Abstract) |
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David Palamara Monash University |
Both students are under the auspices of the Australian Gemini Undergraduate Student Scholarship (AGUSS) Program |
"Star Clusters in Intermediate-Age Galaxy Merger Remnants" | |
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Sophie Underwood University of Adelaide |
"Bent Jets and Multi-object Spectroscopy: A Science Intern's Quest" | ||
| Fred Walter | State University of New York at Stony Brook & Gemini Visiting Astronomer |
"All the Low Mass Objects - Where do they all come from?" (Abstract) |
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| Bryan Miller | Gemini South Observatory | "Star Clusters and Nuclei in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies" | |
| Daniel Christlein | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics & Gemini Visiting Astronomer |
"A Spectroscopic Tour of the Outer Disks of Galaxies" (Abstract) |
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March |
Anna Frebel | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) |
"What the most Metal-poor Stars tell us about the Early
Universe" (Abstract) |
| Greg Madsen | University of Sydney |
"Interstellar Ionized Gas: The View from WHAM" (Abstract) |
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| Ricardo Schiavon | Gemini North in Hilo, Hawaii |
"New
Constraints on the History of Star Formation of Early Type
Galaxies" (Abstract) |
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| David Rodríguez | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) |
"Does the Existence of a Debris Disk Depend on the
Multiplicity of the Star it Orbits?" (Abstract) |
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| Nate Bastian | STFC Advance Fellows (IoA), Cambridge, UK & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Universality of Star and Cluster Formation" (Abstract) |
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| Chris Evans | UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"VLT-MAD Observations of the Core of 30 Doradus" (Abstract) |
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| John Blakeslee | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Talking about SBF at SBF: A New Era in Surface Brightness
Fluctuations" (Abstract) |
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| April | |||
| Iraklis Konstantopoulos | University College London, UK & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Intergalactic Star Clusters" (Abstract) |
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| Joanne Bibby | University of Sheffield & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC
7793: Identifying Wolf-Rayet Progenitors of Type Ib/c Supernova" (Abstract) |
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| Martha Boyer | Space Telescope Science Institute & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Dust Production and Mass Loss at Low Metallicity: A Survey
of AGB Stars with the Spitzer Space Telescope" (Abstract) |
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| May | Tracy Beck | Space Telescope Science Institute |
"Gemini+NIFS Spectral Imaging of YSO Environments" (Abstract) |
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June |
Julio Chaname | Carnegie Institution, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"MACHOs, Dark Matter Halos, and Central Black Holes:
Exploiting the Motions of Individual Stars in the Local Group" (Abstract) |
| Guillermo Bosch | Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina & Gemini South Visiting Scientist |
"GMOS
View of 30Dor: Spectroscopic Binaries and Cluster Kinematics" (Abstract) |
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| Kyler Kuehn | The Ohio State University |
"Multi-Messenger Astronomy with the IceCube Neutrino
Observatory" (Abstract) |
|
| Kyler Kuehn | The Ohio State University |
Technical Talk on: "DECam Software Infrastructure" |
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| Andrea Dupree | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Red Giants and Mass Loss
in Globular Clusters" (Abstract) |
|
| Andrew Kruger | University of California at Davis & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Inner Disk Chemistry" (Abstract) |
|
| Paul Goodall | University of Oxford & Gemini South Visiting Scientist |
"Hydrodynamic Simulations of the SS433-W50 Complex" (Abstract) |
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| Angela Cotera | SETI Institute |
"Star Formation in the Galactic Center: New Directions from
Large Surveys" (Abstract) |
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| Morten Andersen | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) |
"Is the Low-Mass Initial Mass Function Universal?" (Abstract) |
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| A-ran Kyo | KASI, Korea |
"Submillimeter Observation of the Transition Disk System of
HD 135344" (Abstract) |
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| Sebastian Els | CTIO |
"Site Testing for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Site Conditions at Cerro Tololo" (Abstract) |
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| July | Anna Kovacevic | Macquarie University |
"The New Galactic Bulge [OIII] Planetary Nebulae Luminosity
Function" (Abstract) |
| David Floyd | OCIW/AAO Magellan Fellow, Las Campanas Observatory & Gemini South Visiting Scientist |
"Examining Quasar Accretion Disks Through Microlensing" (Abstract) |
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| Patrick Seitzer | University of Michigan |
"Applied Astronomy: Optical Studies of Orbital Debris
from Cerro Tololo" (Abstract) |
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| Jeonghee Rho | IPAC |
"Dust Formation Observed in Young Supernova Remnants with
Spitzer" (Abstract) |
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| August | Sun Mi Chung | University of Florida & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Star Formation in the Bullet Cluster" (Abstract) |
| Simon Schuler | NOAO (Tucson) SOFIA USRA & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Nucleosynthesis in
the Hyades Open Cluster- The Depletion of 12C" (Abstract) |
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| Susan Benecchi | STScI |
"Solar System Archaeology" (Abstract) |
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| Branimir Sesar | University of Washington & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Mapping the Milky Way's Halo with SDSS RR Lyrae Stars" (Abstract) |
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| James De Buizer | SOFIA USRA & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
(SOFIA): Mission Overview, Status, and Opportunities for
Observers" (Abstract) |
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| Benny Trakhtenbrot | Tel-Aviv University; Chile NGO & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Probing the Cosmic Evolution of Black Hole Mass and
Acrretion Rate in AGNs" (Abstract) |
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September |
Carl Melis | University of California, LA (UCLA) & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Catastrophic Collisions in the Terrestrial Planet Zone and
the Epoch of Terrestrial Planet Formation around Intermediate
Mass Stars" (Abstract) |
| Ivelina Momcheva | Carnegie Observatories & Gemni South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Environments of Strong Gravitational Lenses" (Abstract) |
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| October | Joaquin Vieira | University of Illinois, Chicago |
"A New Sample of (sub)mm
Galaxies Discovered with the South Pole Telescope" |
| Maren Hempel | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
"Globular Clusters as Stellar Population Probes" |
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| Brad Tucker | Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Host Galaxy Environments of Type Ia Supernova and Effects on
Supernova Cosmology" |
|
| Wagner Corradi | Universidade de Minas Gerais, Brasil |
"On the Existence of the Interaction Wall between the Local andLoop I Bubbles" |
|
| Roberto Muñoz | Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile |
"The Growth of the Red-Sequence in Clusters since z~1" |
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| November | You-Hua Chu | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
"A Spitzer View of Star Formation in the Large Magellanic
Cloud" (Abstract) |
| Jer-Chyi Liou | NASA Orbital Debris Program Office (NASA/JSC) |
"Orbital Debris and HST WFPC2" (Abstract) |
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| Ray Carlberg | University of Toronto & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Third-Year Results from
the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)" (Abstract) |
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| Marvin Rose | University of Sheffield & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Forbidden High Ionization Lines of SDSS
J113111.05+162739.5: The Aftermath
of a Black Hole Recoil in the Central Regions of a Galaxy?" (Abstract) |
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| Laura Pentericci | INAF Observatory of Rome & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"The Physical and Morphological Properties of High Redshift
Ly-alpha Emitting Galaxies" (Abstract) |
|
| Stefano Andreon | Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera - Milano |
"The Highest Redshift Cluster Known, JKCS041 at z=1.9, and
Cluster Scale
Relations" (Abstract) |
|
| Knut Olsen | NOAO North, Tucson |
"The Star Formation History of M31 and the Origin of
the Ring of Fire" (Abstract) |
|
| Ilona Soechting | Oxford University & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Quasars and Galaxy Clusters - Where is the Connection?" (Abstract) |
|
| Dara Norman | NOAO North, Tucson |
"Tough Talk: Women Giving Colloquia" (Abstract) |
|
| December | Dara Norman | NOAO North, Tucson |
"Correlations of Quasars and Luminous Red Galaxies from a
Quasar Fueling Perspective" (Abstract) |
| Andre-Nicolas Chene | National Research Council Canada – NRCA, Victoria, CANADA & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Determining the Fundamental Parameters of Wolf-Rayet
Stars" (Abstract) |
|
| Abhijit Saha | NOAO |
"Exploring the Extended Structure surrounding the Magellanic
Clouds" (Abstract) |
|
| Sherry Yeh | University of Toronto & Gemini South Visiting Astronomer |
"Mass-loading of Winds in Starburst Galaxies: The Curious
Case of 30 Doradus in the LMC" (Abstract) |
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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" |
| 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: M*A*S*H" (Abstract) |
| July | Karen Kinemuchi | Universidad de Concepcion |
"Probing the Outer Halo Galactic Formation: The New SDSS dSph
Galaxies and their Variable Stars" (Abstract) |
| Michael Falarski | Las Cumbres Observatory |
"The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network" (Abstract) |
|
| Ezequiel Treister | E S O |
"Obscured Supermassive Black Holes" (Abstract) |
|
| Kathryn Amy Harris | University of Central Lancashire |
"Environments of Quasars and Star-Forming Galaxies" (Abstract) |
|
| Kristin A. Woodley | McMaster University |
"Stellar Evolution and Formation History of NGC 5128" (Abstract) |
|
| Michel Cure | Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile |
"Astro-Meteorological Study on Gemini South" (Abstract) |
|
| August | Sebastián López | Universidad de Chile |
"Probing Cluster Galaxies with Background QSOs" (Abstract) |
| Séverin Gaudet | Canadian Astronomy Data Centre |
"The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre" (Abstract) |
|
| Claudia Scarlata | IPAC - Caltech |
"HeII: Population III Stars or Cold Accretion?" (Abstract) |
|
|
September |
Carl Melis | UCLA |
"The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis: Active Accretion of Gas
and Dust and Planet Formation around Old Stars" (Abstract) |
| Edouard J. Bernard | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
"The ACS LCID Project: Star Formation Histories and
Variable Stars in Isolated Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group" (Abstract) |
|
| October | Ravi Subrahmanyan | Raman Research Institute (India) |
"Deep Surveys of the Radio Universe" |
| Stephen Kane | NASA / ESI |
"Constraining Orbital Parameters Through Planetary
Transit Monitoring" |
|
| Annapurni Subramaniam | Indian Institute of Astrophysics (India) |
"Spectroscopic Survey of Classical Be Stars in Northern
Young Open Clusters" |
|
| David Spergel | Princeton University |
"Cosmology After WMAP" |
|
| November | Matt Bayliss | University of Chicago |
"Cosmological Constraints From Cluster-scale Gravitational
Lenses: Leveraging New Large Lens Samples" (Abstract) |
| Thierry Montmerle | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble |
"Was a Supernova Present at the Birth of the Sun? Facts and
Controversies" (Abstract) |
|
| Chris Koen | University of Western Cape |
"CCD Photometry of Variable Stars" (Abstract) |
|
| Jay Farihi | University of Leicester,UK (Gemini Visiting Scientist) |
"Minor Planet Signatures at White Dwarfs" (Abstract) |
|
| Thomas Lebzelter |
Universität Wien (Gemini Visiting Scientist) |
"Evolved Stars in Stellar Clusters" (Abstract) |
|
| December | Dick Shaw | NOAO |
"The Quest for Binary Central Stars in LMC Planetary Nebulae,
or... Boosting Other People's Data and Getting Away With It" (Abstract) |
| Karen Meech | Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii |
"What Exploration of Small Icy Bodies Tell Us About the
Physics and Chemistry of the Early Solar System" (Abstract) |
|
| Jonathan P. Marshall (G) | Open University, Walton Hall, UK |
"AKARI Observations of Debris Discs in the Far
Infra-red" (Abstract) |
|
|
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
|
| Christina Papadaki | Royal Observatory of Belgium |
|
|
|
September |
Thomas R. Geballe | Gemini Observatory, Hilo |
"Oxygen-18 and the Origins of Hydrogen-deficient Carbon Stars and R Coronae
Borealis Stars" (Abstract) |
| Povilas Palunas | University of Texas at Austin |
"Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Early
Universe" |
|
| October | Mark Lacy | Spitzer Science Centre |
"The Host Galaxies of Dust-Reddened Quasars" |
| Jayant Narlikar | Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics(IUCAA) |
"A Critique of Standard Big Bang Cosmology" |
|
| Charles F. Claver | NOAO/LSST |
|
|
| 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) |
| Keivan Stassun |
Department of Physics and Astronomy |
"Empirical
Constraints on the Physical Properties of Young Stars and Brown
Dwarfs" (Abstract) |
|
|
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 |
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| 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 | |||
| Jay Farihi | Gemini Observatory | "Digging in the Stellar Graveyard" | |
| May | Ginny McSwain | Yale University | "The Evolutionary Status of Be Stars" |
|
June |
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| 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" |
| 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" |
|
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” |
| 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) |
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|
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 |
NASA |
"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?” |
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| Dr. Roelof de Jong | Space Telescope Science Institute |
“Dark and Luminous Matter in Nearby Galaxies” |
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| Dr. Elizabeth Barton | University of Arizona |
“The Role of Starbusts in the Evolution of Galaxies” |
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Dr. Lisa Prato |
UCLA |
“Young Low-Mass Star & Brown Dwarf Binaries: Dynamical Mass Ratios and Masses” |
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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” |
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Dr. Martin M. Roth Dr. Sebastian F. Sanchez |
Astrophysicalisches Institut Potsdam |
“Promoting
Integral Field Spectroscopy in Europe: First Results from the
EURO3D Collaboration” |
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| Dr. Bill Harris | McMaster University |
“Globular Clusters and the Oldest Field Stars: Collisions and Challenges” |
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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” |
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| Dr. Silas Laycock | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
“The Chandra Multiwavelength Plane Survey (ChaMPlane)” |
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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” |
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| 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” |
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July |
Dr. Brad Schaefer |
Louisiana State University |
“Case Studies of Three of the Most Famous Claimed Archaeoastronomical Alignments in North America” |
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Dr. Inese Ivans |
Hubble Fellow at Caltech |
“Chemical Clues to Tracing the Construction of the Halo” |
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Dr. Chris Clemens |
University of North Carolina |
“Observations of Nonradial Pulsations in Radio Pulsars” |
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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” |
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| Dr. Eric Gawiser | Universidad de Chile |
“MUSYC: A Square-degree UBVRIzJHK Survey of the Formatiom and Evolution of Galaxies” |
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| Dr. Knut Olsen | CTIO |
“The Disks of Nearby Galaxies” |
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September |
Miss Dijana Domini | Universitaet Potsdam, Berlin |
“Gravitational Microlensing by Binary Stars” |
| Dr. David Spergel | Princeton University |
“WMAP and Beyond” |
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October |
Dr. Alan B. Whiting | CTIO |
“You can't get there from here: Hubble Relaxation in the Local Volume” |
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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?" |
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| Dr. Arlin Crotts | Columbia University |
“Status and Prospects for Large, Liquid-Mirror Telescopes” |
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| Dr. Michael Wood-Vasey | Harvard University |
“The Strange Case of SN 2002ic” |
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| Dr. David Spergel | Princeton University |
“Cosmology
Lecture Series” |
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December |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
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January |
Dr. James Muzerolle | Steward Observatory |
"Accretion of Young Stellar Objects" |
| Dr. Christoph Keller | National Solar Observatory |
"Solar Adaptive Optics" |
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| Dr. Patrick Hall | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
"Broad Absortion Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - and Beyond !" |
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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" |
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| Dr. Kem Cook | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
"Extracting Science from Time Domain Surveys: The MACHO and SuperMacho Experience " |
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| Dr. Nathan Smith | University of Colorado |
"Proplyds, Jets, and Star Formation in the Carina Nebula" |
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March |
Dr. Lucas Macri | NOAO |
"The Metallicity Dependence of the Cephied Period-Luminosity Relation" |
| Dr. Eric Mamajek | Steward Observatory |
"Post-T Tauri Stars in the Nearest OB Association" |
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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" |
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| Dr. Hans M. Maitzen | University of Vienna |
"Magnetic Stars (of the Upper Main Sequence) in the Galactic Context" |
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May |
Dr. Doug Geisler | Universidad de Concepción |
" "Sculptor"-ing the Galaxy? " |
| Mr. Anil Seth | University of Washington |
"Not Quite Points of Light: Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Dwarves" |
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June |
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July |
Professors Barbara Anthony-Twarog & Bruce Twarog |
University of Kansas |
I. "Precision Photometry of
Open Clusters: Latest Results" |
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Dr. George Wallerstein |
University of Washington |
"The Sculptor Galaxy and the Formation of the Halo" |
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Mr. Juan F. Albacete C. |
Universidad de La Plata, Argentina |
"XMM-Newton X-Ray Observations of the Carina Nebula" |
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August |
Mr. Wladimir Lyra | Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro, Brasil |
“Fine Structure of the Chromospheric Activity in Solar-Type Stars: The Ha Line” |
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Mr. Sergio Vera |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
“Caracterización del Espectrómetro Oceanoptics” |
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September |
Dr. James A. Harvin | University of Delaware |
"The massive Close Binary Star in Delta Orionis" |
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October |
Dr. Wei Zheng | Johns Hopkins University |
“Reionization History of Intergalactic Helium between Redshift 2 and 3: New Result from with FUSE and VLT” |
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Dr. Percy Gómez |
Gemini Observatory |
“Sunyaev-Zeldovich Observations of Clusters of Galaxies” |
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Dr. Alan Whiting |
CTIO |
“Presenting Scientific Results” |
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| Dr. Faith Vilas | NASA Johnson Space Center) |
“Probing Asteroid Evolution Using Reflectance Spectroscopy” |
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| Dr. Alistair Walker | CTIO |
“Wide Field Imaging of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy” |
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| Dr. Verne Smith | University of Texas |
“Comparative Chemical Evolution Beyond the Milky Way” |
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| Prof. Harvey Richer | University of British Columbia |
“A Pulsar a Young White Dwarf and the Oldest Known Planet” |
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Dr. Stuart Lumdsen |
University of Leeds, UK |
“Unification and Diversity in the Local AGN Population” |
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| Dr. Virpi Niemela | Observatorio de La Plata, Argentina |
“Massive Binaries with WR Spectra” |
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| Dr. Matthias Dietrich | Georgia State University |
“Quasars at High Redshifts and Early Star Formation Epochs” |
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November |
Dr. Sergei Nokolaev | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
“Geometry of the LMC Disk: Results from MACHO and 2MASS” |
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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” |
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| Dr. George Jacoby | WIYN Observatory |
“Deriving Properties of Nearby Galaxies with the WIYN Telescope” |
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Dr. Sangeeta Malhotra |
STScI |
“Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey: Finding Young Galaxies in a Young Universe” |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
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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" |
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Dr. Ian Robson |
Joint Astronomy Center Hilo, U. of Hawaii |
"The SCUBA Revolution" |
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February |
Dr. Norbert Hubin |
ESO |
"Adaptive Optics at ESO" |
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Dr. J. Allyn Smith |
University of Wyoming |
"A Progress Report on the NOAO Survey Project: The Southern Hemisphere u' g' r' i' z' Standard Star Network" |
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Dr. Cedric Foellmi |
University of Montreal |
"Wolf-Rayet Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds: Conclusion to a Large Spectroscopic Survey" |
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Dr. Dawn Gelino |
UCSD |
"Determining the Masses of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients" |
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Dr. Nathan Smith |
University of Minnesota |
"Outflow Velocity, Ionization, and Density in Eta Car's Non-spherical Stellar Wind: Looking at the Star's Spectrum from more than one Direction" |
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March |
Dr. Paul Harding |
Case Western Reserve University |
"Searching for Substructure in the Galactic Halo" |
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Dr. Paul J. Green |
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
"The Chandra Multiwavelength Project: Goals and Early Results" |
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Dr. Neal Miller |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
"Radio and Optical Observations of Galaxy Evolution in Nearby Clusters" |
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April |
Dr. Holland Ford |
Johns Hopkins University |
"The Jovian Planet Finder, A Proposal to Take a 1.5-m Telescope to the International Space Station" |
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Dr. Paul Martini |
OCIW |
"The Fueling and Lifetimes of Low-Luminosity AGN" |
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Dr. Todd Boroson |
NOAO |
"NOAO's Data Products Program" |
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Dr. Nalin Samarasinha |
NOAO |
"Cometary Nuclei: From LINEAR (C/1999 S4) to 19P/Borrelly" |
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Dr. Seppo Laine |
STScI |
"Nested and Single Bars in Seyfert and Non-Seyfert Galaxies" |
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May |
Dr. Stephen Ridgway |
NOAO |
"Future Technologies for Exo-Planet Studies: New Concepts for Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions, and High Dynamic Range Imaging with a GMST" |
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Dr. Alan Whiting |
CTIO |
"The Precision Photometry Project" |
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June |
Dr. James Dunlap |
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh |
"Quasars and the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies" |
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Dr. Roberto De Propris |
University of New South Wales, Australia |
"The 2dF Galaxy Red-Shift Survey: The Luminosity Function of Cluster Galaxies and its (non-) Dependence on Environment" |
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Dr. Chris Phillips |
JIVE |
"Methanol Masers as Tracers of Massive Star Formation" |
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Dr. Michael Meyer |
Steward Observatory |
"The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with SIRTF" |
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Dr. Alan B. Whiting |
CTIO |
"Not the Hubble Tensor: Dynamic within 10 Mpc" |
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July |
Dr. Michael Liu |
University of Hawaii |
"Distance and Star Formation Histories of Elliptical Galaxies from Surface Brightness Fluctuations" |
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August |
Dr. Katya Verner |
NASA/Goddard |
"Fe+ Emitting Plasma in the Vicinity of Eta Carinae" |
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Dr. Mike Gladders |
OCIW |
"The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey" |
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Dr. Kailash C. Sahu |
STScI |
Search for Dark Matter and Extra-Solar Planets through Gravitational Microlensing |
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September |
Dr. Andrei Tokovinin & Sylvain Baumont |
CTIO |
"Turbulence Profiles Survey at Cerro Tololo" |
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Dr. John Gizis |
University of Delaware |
"Magnetic Activity in Brown Dwarfs?" |
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Dr. Jill Bechtold |
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
"Chandra Survey of Radio-Quiet, High Redshift Quasars" |
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October |
Linda Rowan |
Senior Editor, Science Magazine |
"The Future of Electronic Publishing" |
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Dr. Claus Tappert |
Universidad de Concepción |
"The Missing Population of Cataclysmic Variables: Hidden, Gone, or Never There ?" |
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November |
Dr. Alan Whiting |
CTIO |
"The Expansion of Space: Free Particle Motion and the Cosmological Redshift" |
|
Dr. James De Buizer |
CTIO |
"Searching for Outflows from Young Massive Stars that are Circumstellar Disk Candidates" |
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December |
Dr. Thomas Matheson |
CfA/Harvard |
"What are Type Ib and Ic Supernovae ?" |
|
Dr. Chris Stubbs |
University of Washington |
"Super Macho and Supernovae: What's been going on in the CTIO Computer Room ?" |
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Dr. Keivan Stassun |
University of Wisconsin |
"Observational Tests of Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolution Theory: Empirical Mass Determinations of Very Young, Very Low-Mass Stars with Gemini" |
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Month |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
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January |
Dr. Patrick S. Osmer | Ohio State University |
"The Evolution of Quasars and their Relation to Galaxies" |
| Dr. Mike Eracleous | Pennsylvania State Univ. |
"The Quest for the Dynamical Signature of AGN Accretion Disks" |
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| Dr. Robert A. Schommer | USGP Project Scientist |
"Gemini Instrumentation and Update" |
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| Dr. Eduardo Hardy | NRAO |
"ALMA" |
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February |
Dr. Celine d'Orgeville | Gemini |
"Lasers for the Gemini Adaptive Optics Program" |
| Dr. Arlin Crotts | Columbia University |
"The Neighborhood of Our Backyard Supernova, SN 1987A" |
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March |
Dr. Jennifer Johnson | OCIW |
"Heavy Element Abundances in Metal-poor Stars and the r-process in the Early Galaxy" |
| Dr. Kaspar von Braun | University of Michigan |
"Eclipsing Binaries in Globular Clusters" |
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| Dr. Fred Walter | Suny SB |
"The Strange (?) Star RX J185635-3754" |
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| Dr. Harald Ebeling | IFA, Univ. of Hawaii |
"The Most Massive Clusters of Galaxies in the Universe" |
|
| REU & PIA Students | CTIO |
"What We Did This Summer" |
|
| Dr. Hans Zinnecker | Potsdam |
"Stellar Evolution Before the Main Sequence" |
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| Dr. Ilona Sächting | Univ. of Central Lancashire |
"Environments of Quasars in the Context of Large-scale Structure" |
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April |
Dr. Phil Massey | Lowell Observatory |
"Searching for (and finding!) New Wolf-Rayet Stars in the SMC" |
| Dr. Andrei Tokovinin | CTIO |
"The Statistic and Formation of Multiple Stars" |
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| Dr. Liese Van Zee | Herzberg Institute |
"Star Formation Activity in Dwarf Galaxies" |
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May |
Dr. Patrick Hall | Univ. Católica de Chile |
"AGN from 2MASS Discovered at CTIO" |
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June |
Dr. John Huchra | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
"Seeing Red: The 2 MASS Redshift Survey and the Nearby Universe" |
| Dr. Parviz Ghavamian | Rutgers University |
"Optical and X-Ray Spectra of Balmer-Dominated Supernova Remnants" |
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| Dr. Chris Sneden |
University of Texas (Dept. of Astronomy) |
"Metal-Poor Stars, Neutron-Capture Elements, and Cosmochronometry" |
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| Dr. Bruno Leibundgut | ESO |
"What are Type Ia Supernovae?" |
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July |
Dr. Stephen Eikenberry | Cornell |
"Observing Relativistic Jet Formation in the Galactic Microquasar GRS 1915+105" |
| Dr. Elena Terlevich | INAOE, Mexico |
"Evidence for Young Stars in the Nuclei of Powerful Radio Sources" |
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| Dr. Patrick Seitzer | University of Michigan |
"An Optical Survey for Space Debris with the Curtis Schmidt" |
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| Dr. Arlo Landolt | Louisiana State Univ. |
"An Update on Standard Star Sequences" |
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August |
Dr. James De Buizer | CTIO |
"Massive Star Formation: Discovery and Deception" |
| Dr. Robert Millis | Lowell Observatory |
"The Deep Ecliptic Survey: Reconnaissance of the Kuiper Belt" |
|
| Henry Lee | York University |
"The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster" |
|
| Dr. C. Robert O'Dell | Vanderbilt University |
"Structure and Age of the Orion Nebula and its Associated Population" |
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September |
Dr. Jeremy Mould | NOAO |
"White Dwarfs and Dark Matter" |
| Dr. George Wallerstein | University of Washington |
"[O/Fe] in Metal-poor Stars" |
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| Dr. Ata Sarajedini | University of Florida |
"The Helium Burning Clump as a Distance Indicator" |
|
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October |
James Radomski | University of Florida |
"High Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of Cygnus A" |
| Yaël Nazé | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Bubbles Blown by Main Sequence O Stars" |
|
| Dr. Gerald Cecil | University of North Carolina |
"High Velocity Knots in AGN Outflows: Are they Quasar Associated-Absorbers Caught in Emission?" |
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| Dr. Matthew Shetrone | University of Texas |
"Constraints on Galaxy Formation from Abundance Ratios in Nearby Galaxies" |
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November |
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December |
Dr. Alan B. Whiting | CTIO |
"Dwarf Hunting in the Chilean Andes: A Visual Search for New Local Group Dwarf Galaxies" |
| Dr. Thomas R. Geballe | Gemini Observatory |
"Brown Dwarfs: From Speculation to Observation to Classification" |
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