JPL Astrophysics Luncheon Seminar Series
Monday 12:00-1:00, Room 183-328

2001 Previous Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Jan 8 no talk AAS meeting
Jan 15 no talk Martin Luther King holiday
Jan 29 Jackie Kessler Thermal infrared emission studies of Circumstellar Dust
Feb 5 Thangasamy Velusamy Nulling Interferometry for Extra-solar Planet Detection
Feb 12 no talk FIRST meeting
Feb 21 Thomas Henning Nanoparticles in Space and the Laboratory
Feb 26 G. Tenorio-Tagle On the Expulsion of Metals from Dwarf Galaxies
Mar 05 Michael Seiffert The Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Mar 12 Ron Hellings Positional Gravity-wave Astronomy
Mar 19 Ralph Pudritz Filamentary Molecular Clouds
Mar 26 Roger Linfeld Starlight
Apr 02 Mark Dragovan Gossamer Telescopes
Apr 05 Ralf Neuhaeuser Substellar Companions to Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Apr 09 Dayton Jones The Square Kilometer Array: How will you use it?
Apr 23 Penny Slocum Heavy Elements and Isotopes in Small Solar Particle Events
Apr 30 John Carpenter Near-Infrared Photometric Variability of Stars toward Orion A
May 07 Alan Watson Optical Variability in the Circumstellar Disk of HH 30
May 21 Ed Witten The Cosmological Constant in String Theory
May 28 no talk Memorial Day holiday
Jun 04 no talk AAS meeting, Pasadena
Jun 11 Mark Wiedenbeck Heavy Isotopes in the ISM - Indications from Cosmic Studies on ACE
Jun 18 Charlotte Vastel An oxygen budget in the ISM: cold MCs and PDRs
Jun 25 Carman Sanchez Formation and evolution of proto-PN: OH231.8+4.2 and He3-1475
Jul 02 Slava Turyshev Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
Jul-Aug (Summer Break)
Sept 3 no talk Labor Day
Sept 10 Jamie Bock (JPL) Probing the Cosmic Infrared Background with a Rocket-Borne Telescope
Sept 17 Lisa Prato (UCLA) The Smallest Mass Ratio Young Star Spectroscopic Binaries
Sept 20 Jay Frogel (LBL) New Abundances for Globular Clusters based on Infrared Spectroscopy
Sept 24 Mike Brown (CalTech) The Edge of the Solar System
Oct 1 Adam Burgasser (CalTech) Failed Stars or Super-Jupiters? Our Coolest Brown Dwarf Neighbors
Oct 15 Andy Boden (IPAC) Infrared Interferometry With the Palomar Testbed Interferometer
Oct 17 Dave Jauncey (CSIRO) Radio Interstellar Scintillation and Intra-Day Variability
Oct 22 Yoram Lithwick (CalTech) Turbulence in the ISM
Oct 29 Christine Chen (UCLA) A Possible Massive Asteroid Belt Around Zeta Lep
Nov 5 Shih-Ping Lai (JPL) Interferometric Mapping of Magnetic Fields in Star-forming Regions
Nov 12 Merav Opher (JPL) Plasma Effects on Reaction Rates, the Equation of State and the Origin of the Magnetic Field
Nov 19 Elizabeth Holmes (JPL) Observations and Modeling of Structure in the Zodiacal Cloud
Nov 26 Ralf Launhardt (CalTech) A Young Protoplanetary Disk in the Bok Globule CB26?
Dec 3 Dan Kelson (Carnegie) A Brief Primer about the Stellar Populations in Distant Galaxies
Dec 10 Steven Pravdo (JPL) First Detection of X-ray Emmision from an HH Object
Dec 17 Raul Jimenez (Rutgers) Dark matter profiles, dark galaxies, and the (non-)detection of neutralino annihilation
Dec 24 S. Claus (NPole) Remote Observation of Young Dwarfs
Dec 31 no talk Happy Year