2005 Astrolunch Schedule

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

This Week

2004 Schedule
2003 Schedule
2002 Schedule

19th January Louise Ord:
The Cosmological Implications of the CMB
26th January Australia Day
2nd February Michael Burton:
What Do Bowshocks Look Like?
9th February Suze Kenyon:
Excellent Antarctic Adventures
16th February David Woods:
The Future of the Virtual Observatory
23rd February Panayiotis Tzanavaris:
Limits on Fundamental Constants
Using Quasar Absorption Lines
2nd March Wilfred Walsh:
Weapons of Mass Instruction:
An Open Discussion on Online
Teaching Tools in Physical Sciences
9th March Jessie Christiansen:
Searching for Extrasolar Planets with Vulcan South
16th March Michael Burton:
Journals Club: "An Upper Limit to the Masses of Stars 192",
by Donald F. Figer, Nature 434, pp. 192-194 (10 March 2005).
23rd March Warrick Couch:
ELTs: An Update on Australian Involvement
6th April Andrew Walsh:
G305.2+0.2: A Southern Complex of Massive Star Formation
13th April Michael Pracy:
The Luminosity Distribution of Galaxies in Three Nearby Clusters
20th April Tracey Hill:
Examining the Evolutionary Sequence of Massive Star Formation:
A Possible Precursor to the Methanol Maser
27th April Steve Longmore:
Measuring the Multiplicity of Massive Protostars
4th May Anna Moore (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri):
How Bright is the Sky Above Dome C?
11th May Brian Boyle (ATNF):
Decadal Plan Overview/Discussion
18th May Paul Ten Boom:
Energy and Gravitation in Our Solar System
25th May Michael Burton:
The Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation
1st June Hiroyuki Toyozumi:
The Effect of Intra-pixel Sensitivity
Variation on Photometry and Astrometry
8th June James Jackson (Boston University):
Infrared Dark Clouds:
Precursors to Massive Stars and Clusters
15th June Matt Owers:
Environmental Analysis of a 2dFGRS
Selected Sample of Starburst Galaxies
22nd June Andrew Walsh:
Measuring the Pre-Stellar Mass Function
Down to 0.10 M_solar in NGC 1333
29th June Maria Hunt:
Turbulence Regulated Star Formation
6th July ASA2005 Meeting (No Astrolunch this week)
13th July Luc Binette (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico):
Dust Absorption and the Far-UV Quasar Break
20th July Greg Madsen (AAO/University of Wisconsin-Madison):
Recent Results from the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper
27th July Jon Lawrence:
Dome A, McSHMISM, and the Tiger Bones
3rd August Wilfred Walsh:
Black Holes for High School Students
10th August Laszlo Kiss (University of Sydney):
Spectroscopy of Stellar Explosions
17th August Cormac Purcell:
Dissecting the Star-Forming Region NGC 3576
24th August Stephen Crothers:
A Correction to the Geometry of Spacetime and its'
Implications for Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology
31st August Malte Marquarding (ATNF):
ASAP: The ATNF Spectral Analysis Package
7th September John Webb:
What I Did On My Sabbatical
14th September Steve Curran:
Probing the Early Universe with Redshifted Radio Absorption Lines
21st September Aliz Derekas:
Eclipsing Binaries in the MACHO Database
28th September Kenji Bekki:
Formation of Intergroup and Intragroup Objects
5th October Tony Wong:
Zooming in on Circumnuclear Rings with ATCA
12th October No Astrolunch this week
19th October Tony Travouillon (TMT):
A TMT Site Testing Progress Report
26th October Stefan Keller (RSAA/ANU):
The Skymapper Telescope
9th November Jessie Christiansen:
Latest Results from the APT
16th November Jessica Chapman (ATNF):
Demonstration of the OPAL Proposal Software
23rd November Warrick Couch:
Discussion: The Australian Astronomical
Decadal Plan and Future of the AAT
30th November Millimetre/Star Formation Workshop:
Astrolunch Pre-empted by Meeting this Week
7th December Marton Hidas:
Detecting and Characterizing Extrasolar Planets
George Georgevits:
Searching for Kuiper Belt Objects by Stellar Occultation
14th December Michael Burton:
Infrared Polarization of Orion


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