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

Scheduled Speakers for 2005:


Date Speaker Title
Jan 10 no talk AAS meeting (San Diego)
Jan 17 no talk Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 24 Joe Carson (JPL) An Adaptive Optics Survey for Brown Dwarfs in Stellar Systems
Jan 31 Slava Turyshev (JPL) The Study of the Pioneer Anomaly
Feb 7 Eric Agol (UW-Seattle) Timing Transits to Find Extrasolar Earths
Feb 21 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 28 Francois Menard Observations and Models of Circumstellar Disks
Mar 3, Thurs, 12:00 Xiaopei Pan (JPL) Pleiades Distance and its Impact on Science & SIM
Mar 7 Ben Mazin (CalTech) Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Optical, UV, & X-ray Astronomy
Mar 8, Tue, 4:15 Alexandre Refregier (SEA/Saclay) Weak lensing and dark energy
Mar 14, 11:30 (vonKarman) Jonathan Lunine (Arizona) Planetary Science beyond the Solar System: Extrasolar Giant Planets
Mar 21 Alan Cummings (CalTech) Voyager Observations of Energetic Particles Near the Termination Shock
Mar 28 Linda Spilker (JPL) Saturn's Rings as seen by Cassini
Apr 1, Fri, 10:30 Charles Alcock (Harvard CfA) Fishing in the Dark: Searching for Extremely Faint Objects in the Outer Solar System
Apr 4 Helene Roussel (Caltech) Synchrotron-Deficient Galaxies as Nascent Starbursts
Apr 11 Fred Baganoff (MIT) Chandra X-ray observations
Apr 25 Travis Barman (UCLA) Extrasolar Planets: Spitzer Observations vs Theory
May 2 Luc Blanchet (IAParis) Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Systems
May 9 Paul Goldsmith (Cornell) Cold Atomic Hydrogen & the Age of Molecular Clouds
May 16 Bonnie Buratti (JPL) The Dark Side of Iapetus
May 23 Lee Armus (SSC) Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Observed with the IRS on Spitzer
May 30 no talk Memorial Day
June 6, 11:30 (vonKarmen) Alan Title (Lockheed) Understanding the Sun
June 13 Jamie Bock (JPL) CIBER: The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment
June 20 Lance Benner (JPL) Recent Arecibo and Goldstone Radar Imaging of Near-Earth Asteroids
June 27 Ward Manchester (Michigan) The Source of Magnetic Shear that Drives Solar Eruptions
July 4 no talk BBQ day
July 11 Jane Rigby (Arizona) Spitzer observations of AGN
July 19, Tue, 3:30 Mami Machida (NAO-Tokyo) Global MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks
July 25 no talk SNAP team meeting
Aug 2, Tue, 4:15 Ed Turner (Princeton) Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets and Plants
Aug 8-29 no talks summer break
Sept 5 no talk Labor Day
Sept 12 Ken Rice (UCR) The Role of Disk Self-Gravity in Star and Planet Formation
Sept 19 Richard Woo (JPL) Magnetic Field of our Nearest Star the Sun
Oct 3 Di Li (JPL) Constraining the Formation Time Scale of Clouds and Stars
Oct 10 Justin Howell (SSC) Star Formation Histories of Nearby Elliptical Galaxies
Oct 18, Tue, 4:15 Candice Bacon (Rochester) HgCdTe detectors
Oct 24 no talk (PPV in Hawaii)
Nov 1, Tue, 4:15 Charlie Qi (CFA) SMA Observations of TW Hyd
Nov 7 Shanti Rao (JPL) The Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment (PICTURE)
Nov 8, Tue, 4:15 Mike Werner (JPL) Highlights of the First Two Years of Spitzer Science
Nov 14 Sally Robinson (UCSC) Silicon Enhancement in Planet-Host Stars: Implications for the Core Accretion Theory
Nov 15, Tue, 4:15 Daniel Shaddock Interferometry for LISA
Nov 21 Joanna Brown (Caltech) Dust & Gas Clearing around Transitional Protoplanetary Disks
Nov 28 Pierre Haguenauer (JPL) Off-axis Four-Quadrant Phase Mask (FQPM) Coronagraph
Dec 5 Amy Mainzer (JPL) Brown Dwarfs Young & Old: Recent Observations
Dec 6, Tue, 4:15 Niel Brandt (Penn St) X-raying Active Galaxies in the High-Redshift Universe
Dec 12 Ray Furuya (CalTech) Exploring the Earliest Phase of Star Formation
Dec 19 Beth Biller (Arizona) A Survey of Close, Young Stars with SDI at the VLT and MMT

Previous Speakers: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

General directions for speakers
contact: Geoffrey.Bryden@jpl.nasa.gov