Astronomy Seminars from 2001 - 2002
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2002
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| JOINT ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS
TALK Fri. Jan 11 1:00pm Rm 123 |
Dr. A Gopakumar University of Guelph |
Gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries:Probing effects of eccentricity & spin. |
| PHYSICS TALK Wed. Jan. 16 1:00 pm Rm 123 |
Dr. Penny King Earth Sciences University of Western Ontario |
Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans on Mars |
| Thurs. Jan. 17 4:00pm Rm 213A |
Dr. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario |
How does the solar wind interact with the earth's magnetosphere? |
| Tues. Jan. 22 2:00 pm Rm 123 |
JOINT PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
AND EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENTS Dr. Guy Consolmagno, SJ Vatican Observatory Research Group Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
Are Asteroids Fluffy? |
| Thurs. Feb. 7 4:00 pm Rm 213A |
Dr. Takahiro Kudoh University of Western Ontario |
Numerical simulation of magnetically
driven jets from accretion disks |
| Thurs. Mar. 14 3:00 pm Room 137 |
CAP LECTURE Professor Alison Sills Department of Physics and Astronomy McMaster University |
When Stars Collide |
| Fri. Mar 22 Rm 137 3:00 pm |
Dr. John R. Percy University of Toronto |
Astronomy Education for the 21st
Century Undergraduate and Graduate students welcome |
| Thurs. Apr. 4 4:00 pm Rm 213A |
Dr. Michel Fich University of Waterloo |
Recycling the Milky Way |
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2001
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| Fri., June 8 - 2:00 pm | Dr. G. Mathys European Southern Observatory |
ESO's Very Large Telescope: the first two years of science operations |
| Tues., Sept. 11 - 4:00 pm |
Dr. Peter Cottrell University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
The Southern African Larger Telescope (SALT) - a condiment for the 21st Century |
| PHYSICS TALK Wed., Sept. 26 - 1:00 pm |
Dr. J. J. Kavelaars McMaster University |
Tracking the Formation of the Solar System |
| PHYSICS TALK Wed., Oct. 10 - 1:00 pm Rm 137 |
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland University of California |
Astrophysics faces the millenium |
| Wed., Oct. 10 7:30 pm |
THE ELIZABETH LAIRD LECTURE
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland University of California |
Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe |
| Thurs., Oct. 11 - 4:00 pm |
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland Unversity of California |
Archaeoastronomy: Past, Present, and Future |
| PHYSICS TALK Fri., Oct. 26 - 1:00 pm |
Dr. James DiFrancesco Berkeley (University of California) |
Revealing the Earliest Stages of Stellar Formation through Millimeter Interferometry |
| Thurs., Nov. 8 - 4:00 pm | Dr. Lee Anne Willson Iowa State University |
Miras and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth |
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Thurs. Nov. 22 |
Dr. Patrick Durrell Pennsylvania State University |
Intracluster Stars in the Virgo Cluster |
| Thurs., Nov. 29 - 4:00 pm |
Dr. Steve Federman University of Toledo |
Isotope Ratios in Interstellar Space |
