Astrolunch Schedule

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

2002
2003 Schedule
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

Christmas Break

2003
2002 Schedule
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