JPL Astrophysics Luncheon Seminar Series
Monday 12:00-1:00, Room 169-336

2002 Previous Speakers:

Date Speaker Title
Jan 7 no talk AAS meeting in D.C.
Jan 14 Rachel Akeson (ISC, CalTech) T Tauri Circumstellar Disk Observations with IR Interferometry
Jan 14b Subhanjoy Mohanty (UCB) Multipole X-wind models: Magnetospheric Accretion in T Tauris
Jan 21 no talk Martin Luther King Jr Day
Jan 28 Maciej Konacki (CalTech) Timing millisecond pulsars 1257+12 and 1534+12
Feb 4 Chin-Fei Lee (JPL) CO Outflows from YSOs: Observations & Simulations
Feb 11 Dave Stevenson (CalTech) Planetary Diversity
Feb 18 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 25 John Mulchaey (Carnegie) X-ray and Optical Properties of Groups of Galaxies
Mar 4 Brigitte Koenig (MPI-Garching) Searching for Young Stars among Flare Stars
Mar 11 Paul Martini (Carnegie) Fueling Mechanisms for Low-Luminosity AGN
Mar 18 Varoujan Gorjian (JPL) New IR Diagnostics for AGN Using 2MASS + New 10 Micron Data
Mar 25 David Charbonneau (CalTech) When Extrasolar Planets Transit Their Parent Stars
Apr 1 David Meier (JPL) Supernovae & Gamma-ray Bursts: A Jet Connection
Apr 8 Gerard van Belle (JPL) Direct Observations of Rotationally Distorted Stars
Apr 15 Hien Nguyen (JPL) Why & How to Build a mm Spectrometer
Apr 22 Scott Trager (Carnegie) Formation of Elliptical Galaxies & Spiral Bulges
Apr 29 Alexey Goldin (JPL) Antenna Coupled Bolometers
May 6 Jennifer Johnson (Carnegie) Nucleosynthesis in Pop III Stars: Theory & Observations
May 13 Eric Agol (CalTech) Probing Black Holes with Gravitational Lensing
May 20 Geoff Bryden (JPL) Observing Planet-Bearing Disks
May 27 no talk Memorial Day
Thurs, May 30 Mike Werner (JPL) SIRTF: A Great Scientific Opportunity
June 3 Paolo Padoan (JPL) Star Formation from Turbulent Fragmentation
June 24 Mary Barsony (JPL) WL20: the Dynamical Evolution of a PMS System
July 1 Ara Chutjian (JPL) Highly-Charged Ion Collisions in Astronomical Objects
July-Aug no talks -- summer break --
August 26 Alberto Bigazzi (JPL) Modeling the Solar Dynamo
Sept 2 no talk Labor Day
Sept 9 Angelle Tanner (UCLA) Spatially Resolved Observations of the Galactic Center
Thurs, Sept 12, 3:30 John Stansberry (Arizona) SIRTF solar system science with MIPS
Sept 16 Sheng-Yuan Liu (CalTech) Chemistry in Hot Molecular Cores:
Molecules of Biological Interest
Thurs, Sept 19, 2:30 Peter Eisenhardt(JPL) How to use SIRTF: An Overview
Sept 23 Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) SIRTF: C2D legacy project (ppt)
Sept 30 Keith Grogan (JPL) Digging in the Dirt:
The Zodiacal Cloud, Debris Disks, & Exoplanets
Thurs, Oct 3, 2:30 Dan Stern (JPL) SIRTF: IRAC
Oct 7 David Shupe (IPAC) SIRTF: SWIRE legacy project
Oct 14 Stuart Pilorz (JPL) The Physics of Galactic Winds & Cooling Flows
Thurs, Oct 17, 2:30 Varoujan Gorjian(JPL) SIRTF: IRS
Oct 21 Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) Young Stars Near Earth:
Implications for the Origin of Planetary Systems
Thurs, Oct 24, 2:30 Bill Langer (JPL) Astrophysics: Progress Report
Thurs, Oct 31, 12:00 S. Michael Fall (STScI) Formation & Evolution of Globular Star Clusters
Nov 4 Peter Eisenhardt (JPL) SIRTF: GOODS legacy project
Nov 11 Debbie Padgett (IPAC) SIRTF: FEPS legacy project
Thurs, Nov 14, 2:30 Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) SIRTF: MIPS
Nov 18 Kartik Sheth (CalTech) Molecular Gas & Star Formation in Barred Galaxies
Nov 25 Russel White (CalTech) The Formation of Very Low Mass Stars & Brown Dwarfs
Dec 2 Robert Benjamin (Wisconsin) SIRTF: GLIMPSE legacy project
Dec 9 George Helou (IPAC) SIRTF: SINGS legacy project
Thurs, Dec 12, 2:30 Vikki Meadows (JPL) SIRTF: Solar System Observations
Dec 23 no talk Christmas Eveeve
Dec 30 no talk New Year's Eveeve

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