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

Previous Speakers in 2003:


Date Speaker Title
Jan 6 no talk AAS Meeting (Seattle)
Jan 13 Neal Turner (UCSB) Black Hole Accretion Disks
Jan 20 Frederick Jenet (JPL) Pulsar Radio Emission: Quest for Understanding
Jan 27, 11:30 Tom Prince (JPL) LISA
Thurs, Jan 30, 3:00 Darren Dowell (CalTech) SHARC II
Feb 3 Patrick Morrissey (CalTech) GALEX
Feb 10 Ranga-Ram Chary (SIRTF) Cosmic Explosions & the Cosmic Infrared Background
Feb 17 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 24 Simon White (MPA) Galaxy Clusters & Galaxy Haloes in Lambda-CDM Cosmology
Mar 3 Bryan Penprase (Pomona) FUSE and STIS Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium
Thurs, Mar 6, 3:00 Lisa Storrie-Lombardi (IPAC) SIRTF: First Look
Mar 10 Adwin Boogert (CalTech) High Resolution 5 micron Spectroscopy
of Gas and Ices in Circumstellar Disks
Mar 17 Jon Fulbright (Carnegie) Stellar Abundances and the Early History of the Milky Way
Wed, Mar 19, 12:00 Paul Goldsmith (Cornell) Inappropriate Probes of Dense Molecular Clouds
Thurs, Mar 20, 3:00 Stephen Unwin (JPL) TPF Precursor Science Opportunities
Mar 24 Michele Vallisneri (JPL) Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects with LIGO
Mar 31 Slava Turyshev (JPL) The Lost Arctic Flight of Sigismund Levanevsky
Apr 7 Chad Trujillo (CalTech) Moving Beyond Quaoar to Super-Plutos
Apr 14 Peter Eisenhardt (JPL) Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Thurs, April 17, 2:30 Rashid Sunyaev (MPA) The Physics of Boundary Layer Accretion:
Differences Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Apr 21 no talk canceled
Apr 28 Marco Velli (JPL) Nonlinear Wave Propagation and MHD Turbulence
in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration
Thurs, May 1, 3:00 Charles Backus (JPL) SIRTF: HIRES Data Analysis
May 5 Sergio Fajardo-Acosta (SIRTF) Discovery of Circumstellar Dust From IRAS and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey
May 12 Andrew MacFadyen (CalTech) Collapsars: Gamma-Ray Bursts from Massive Stars
May 19 Vassilis Angelopoulos (JPL) THEMIS/MIDEX: Resolving the Magnetospheric Substorm Controversy
May 26 no talk Memorial Day
June 2 Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton) Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)
June 9 Massimo Tinto (JPL) Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA
June 16 Patrick Lowrance (IPAC) Discovering Nearby Carbon Dwarfs Using 2MASS
June 23 Merav Opher (JPL) Probing the Edge of the Solar System:
Formation of an Unstable Jet-Sheet
June 30 Richard Woo (JPL) The Origin of the Solar Wind
Wed, July 9, 11:30 Ho Jung Paik (Maryland) Precision Gravity Experiments Using Superconducting Accelerometers
July 14 Jeffrey Jewell (JPL) The Bayesians Strike Back
Aug 4 Gary Zank (UCR) Particle Acceleration at Interplanetary Shocks within 1 AU
Aug 11 Sabine Richling (Univ. Heidelberg) Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks
Aug 18 Alberto Bigazzi (JPL) The Solar Dynamo and Preferred Longitudes
Thurs, Aug 21, 3:30 B.-G. Andersson (Hopkins) The Southern Coalsack: A Cool Cloud in Hot Surroundings
Sept 1 no talk Labor Day
Sept 8 Brad Hansen (UCLA) Old and degenerate: White dwarfs, a neutron star and even a planet in the Globular Cluster Messier 4
Fri, Sept 12, 12:00 Reinhard Schlickeiser (Ruhr Univ.) Interstellar Plasma Turbulence and Galactic Cosmic Ray Origin
Tues, Sept 23, 3:00 Ryoji Matsumoto (Chiba) Global MHD Simulations of Jet Formation and Time Variability of Accreting Compact Objects
Sept 29 Geraint Jones (JPL) Interplanetary Field Enhancements: Evidence of an Interaction between the Solar Wind and Interplanetary Dust
Oct 6 John Armstrong (JPL) Cassini Doppler Tracking and the Search for Low-frequency Gravitational Waves
Thurs, Oct 9, 1:30 Nicholas White (Goddard) The NASA Beyond Einstein Program
Oct 13 Masanori Nakamura (JPL) Current-driven Instabilities and Formation of "Wiggled" Structures in AGN Jets
Oct 20 Ciska Kemper (UCLA) The First Detection of Carbonates Outside the Solar System
Oct 27 Rafael Millan-Gabet (CalTech) Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry of Young Stellar Objects
Nov 3 Filippo Vernizzi (IAP, Paris) Reheating in Inhomogeneous Cosmologies
Nov 10 Sebastian Wolf (SIRTF) Circumstellar Disk Modelling
Nov 17 Amanda Mainzer (UCLA) Near-IR Searches for Young Brown Dwarfs and Planets
Thurs, Nov 20, 1:00 Curt Cutler (AEI, Potsdam) Gravitational Waves from Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars
Nov 24 Denise Kaisler (UCLA) A Keck Adaptive Optics Search for Young Extrasolar Planets
Dec 1 Hans Zinnecker (Potsdam) An HST/NICMOS direct imaging search for giant planets around white dwarfs in the Hyades
Dec 8 Steve Levin (JPL) SETI pilot survey
Dec 15 no talk canceled
Dec 22 Joe Carson (Florida/Cornell) An Adaptive Optics Survey for Brown Dwarfs in Stellar Systems
Dec 29 no talk New Year Holidays