2004 Astrolunch Schedule

Wednesdays, 12.00 - 1.00 pm,
School of Physics Common Room
Room 64, Old Main Building, UNSW

2003 Schedule
2002 Schedule

28th January Matthew Whiting:
Spitzer Space Telescope: Updates and Applying for time
4th February Charley Lineweaver:
Mars: Why is it so important?
11th February None this week
18th February Nissim Kanekar (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute):
Using OH lines to measure changes in fundamental constants
25th February Wilfred Walsh:
The ASTRO survey of hot dense gas in the Galactic centre.
3rd March Kenji Bekki:
The lord of the rings: An unified model of intergalactic ring formation.
10th March Warrick Couch:
Probing the 'Dark Ages'.
17th March Jon Lawrence + open discussion:
Capabilities of PILOT at Dome C -- what science could be done?
24th March Simon Ellis (AAO):
The Colour-Magnitude Relation of Galaxies in Clusters at High Redshift
31 March Michael Ashley:
Astronomical seeing measurements using a Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor from Dome C
7 April Kevin Pimbblett (U.Queensland):
The Las Campanas / Anglo-Australian Telescope Rich Cluster Survey
14 April None this week
21 April Tony Wong:
Exploring the radio/far-infrared correlation in the LMC
28 April None this week
5th May Steve Curran:
Constraining Variations in the Fundamental Constants with the SKA
12th May Paolo Calisse:
My Winter at the South Pole
19th May Bruce Bassett (U. Portsmouth, UK):
Is the dark energy dynamical?
26th May Gemini Funding Debate (with Matthew Colless, Elaine Sadler, John Storey, Chris Blake, Michael Burton)
2nd June Jill Rathborne (Boston):
The Galactic Ring Survey
9th June Daisuke Kawata (Swinburne):
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
16th June Cormac Purcell:
Mopra Update
23rd June James de Buizer (CTIO):
Multi-wavelength infrared observations of the earliest phases of massive star formation.
30th June Double Bill: Michael Pracy & Louise Ord:
1. The spectroscopic dissection of E+A galaxies
2. Probing the Origins of Voids
7th July No astrolunch this week
ASA Meeting, UQ
14th July No astrolunch this week
21st July No astrolunch this week
28th July No astrolunch this week
4th August Jean-Rene Roy and Phil Puxley (Gemini Observatory):
Science with Gemini.
Meet the Gemini Operations Working Group. FREE LUNCH PROVIDED!!
11th August Maria Hunt:
The Molecular Lord of the Rings: The Nucleus of NGC 4945.
18th August Neil Crighton:
Why don't different ways of measuring the cosmological baryon density agree?
25th August None this week
1st September John Storey:
Proposed ARC Centre of Excellence in Antarctic Astronomy
8th September Matt Owers
15th September Jeremy Bailey (AAO):
First Results from PLANETPOL: Stellar Polarimetry to One Part in a Million.
22nd and 29th September None these weeks
6th October Undergraduate Students:
Undergraduate Honours Talk-a-rama
13th October Michael Pracy:
IFU Spectroscopy of E+A Galaxies in AC114
20th October David Blank (University of Western Sydney):
The GJ 876 Transit Campaign
27th October Steve Curran:
A Systematic Search for Highly Redshifted Radio Absorption Lines
3rd November Chris Blake:
Cosmology Using Photometric Redshifts
10th November Matthew Whiting:
Quasars and BL Lacs: Getting in Touch with the Inner Monster
17th November Christian Henkel (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn):
Megamasers
24th November No Astrolunch this week
1st December Kenji Bekki:
The Mysterious Age Gap of Globular Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
8th December Indra Bains:
MOPRA Survey of a Molecular Cloud Complex in 13CO
15th December Paul Francis (ANU):
Why Are There So Few Small Comets?


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