2003 Astrolunch Schedule

2004 Schedule
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 Antarctica
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: POSTPONED
2nd July Neil Crighton: The deuterium abundance in a new absorption cloud towards quasar Q1937-1009
9th July Special Tele-Conference with the South Pole.
16th July NO ASTROLUNCH! IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY
23rd July NO ASTROLUNCH! IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY
30th July Nigel Douglas (University of Groningen): The dearth of dark matter: First results with the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph
6th August John Storey: Overview of LOFAR and report on the SKA meeting.
13th August John Webb: Are the values of fundamental constants different in the early universe?
20th August Matthew Whiting: Adaptive Optics Studies of the Crab Nebula.
27th August Ann Marie Cody (Harvard University): Polluted Stellar Evolution: Implications for Planet Accretion.
3rd September Mike Dopita (RSAA, ANU): WiFeS: the Wide Field Spectrograph
10th September Steve Curran: SKA Level 0 Science Proposal - Constraining Variations on the Fundamental Constants with High Redshift Absorption Lines
17th September Chris Phillips (ATNF): Tidbinbilla upgrade
24th September Michael Burton: The Eye of the Tornado
1st October No Astrolunch this week!:
8th October Chris Blake: Measuring our cosmic motion
15th October None this week!:
22nd October Jon Lawrence:
29th October Third Year Astrophysics Students (Michael Burton)
5th November Paul ten Boom: The Pioneer 10/11 acceleration anomaly: real or systematic?
12th November Louise Ord: From COBE to WMAP: A Decade of Data Under Scrutiny
19th November Steve Longmore: Massive Star Formation - The Cradle of Galactic Superpowers
3rd December Tracey Hill: Continuum Studies Of Massive Star Formation
10th December None this week.
17th December Cormac Purcell:


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