24th April
Angie Shultz : Modelling the bow shocks in the Orion BN-KL Outflow
1st May
Physoc Chicken BBQ Note that this is not in the Common Room but on the Physics Lawn
8th May
Charley Lineweaver: My research
15th May
NO ASTROLUNCH!
22nd May
Matthew Whiting: Travels in South America
29th May
Mini-workshop on Millimetre Astronomy
5th June
NO ASTROLUNCH!
12th June
Kate Brooks (ESO): A study of massive star-forming regions
19th June
Maria Hunt: Finding Biomolecules with the ATCA
26th June
Marton Hidas: A transit search for extra-solar planets with the 0.5m Automated Patrol
Telescope
3rd July
NO ASTROLUNCH! ASA Annual General Meeting
10th July
NO ASTROLUNCH!
Mid-semester break
17th July
Charley Lineweaver: Will discuss ` Michelson-Morley Experiments Revisited and the Cosmic Background Radiation Preferred
Frame'
24th July
NO ASTROLUNCH!
31st July
Neil Crighton: Measuring the cosmological baryon density via the primordial deuterium abundance in quasar absorption lines
7th August
Jessica Dempsey: How far away are the stars?
14th August
NO ASTROLUNCH!
21st August
Cormac Purcell: Chemistry in star formation
28th August
Tony Travouillon: An overview of optical turbulence
4th September
Tamara Davis: That Nature paper
11th September
Warrick Couch: Gemini happenings: a briefing on share-trading, the Pre-Abingdon-II
workshop, the 2003A proposal round, and Gemini/Keck/VLT time swap
18th September
Kenji Bekki: Origin of ultra-compact galactic Objects (UCDs)
25th September
Peter Priestly: Towards breaking the age-metallicity degeneracy for
elliptical galaxies
2nd October
NO ASTROLUNCH!
9th October
NO ASTROLUNCH! POSTPONED
17th October
Lori Allen (CfA): SIRTF at T-84 Days
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY (THURSDAY)!
23rd October
Paolo Calisse: Submillimetre site testing at Dome C and a review of the skydip technique
for atmospheric opacity measurement
31st October
Tracey Hill: The massive star and MOPSI
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY (THURSDAY)!
6th
November
Norikazu Mizuno (Nagoya University): New views of molecular gas distribution of the southern sky: CO surveys with NANTEN
13th November
Tony Travouillon: A.O conference report
20th November
Steve Curran: ATCA 3 & 12 mm observations of high redshift objects
27th November
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer: Making Mopra Go - how well does Mopra
actually work?
4th December
Michael Pracy: INT survey of near-by clusters
11th December
Matthew Whiting: BL Lacs, quasars and the accretion process
29th January
Mike Irwin (IoA): Results from a Wide Field Survey of the halo and outer disk of M31
5th February
Vincent Minier: News in methanol maser business: Orion, LMC and flare
12th February
Charley Lineweaver: Will discuss `Incredible New MAP Results for Cosmology (New image of infant universe)'
19th February
Chris Blake: Cosmology with wiggles
26th February
Suzanne Aigrain: Stellar micro-variability: A noise source for photometric transit searches
5th March
Tony Travouillon: Tony's Summer Holidays in Antartica
12th March
Ned Ladd: The Impact of Outflows on Dense Cores Surrounding Forming Low Mass Stars
19th March
Panayiotis Tzanavaris: QSO absorption line spectroscopy
26th March
Michael Ashley: The AASTINO website and updates
on the APT and ROTSE telescopes
2nd April
NO ASTROLUNCH! AAO/ATNF Joint Symposium 2003
9th April
Tony Travouillon: Again!!!!
16th April
Matthew Whiting: The SIRTF mission
24th April
NO ASTROLUNCH!
Easter break
30th April
Mark Whittle (University of Virginia): Jet-gas interactions in Seyfert galaxies
7th May
Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF): UNSW/ATNF research opportunities
14th May
NO ASTROLUNCH! 6th ATNF Synthesis Imaging Workshop
21st May
Neil Crighton: POSTPONED
28th May
Michael Burton & Maria Hunt: Millimetre with MOPRA
4th June
Steve Curran: Atomic and molecular gas at high redshift
11th June
Marton Hidas: High-precision photometry
from undersampled CCD images
18th June
Jeremy Bailey (AAO) : The Search for Life on Mars: Australian Involvement in the ExoMars Project
25th June
Neil Crighton: The deuterium abundance in a new absorption cloud towards quasar
Q1937-1009