Past AAO Colloquia 2000-2004

 

Recent Talks/Colloquia




Recent and Future AAO Colloquia
Date Venue Speaker Title
18th November 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Phil Lucas Brown Dwarfs in the Trapezium cluster
28th October 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Steven T. Myers Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background: New Results from the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI)
19th October 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Lisa Kewley Cosmic Star Formation and Metallicity History of Galaxies
8th October 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Katya Verner Binarity of Eta Carinae Revealed through Photoionization modeling
29th September 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Paul Butler Extrasolar Planets: The Next Decade
22 September 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Simon Driver The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Beyond
9 September 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Andrew Hopkins Galaxy Evolution: Star formation, Obscuration and Gas
13 August 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Joerg Fischera Attenuation in isothermal turbulent media
16 July 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Tom Slanger Aeronomy by Astronomy
9 July 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Will Clarkson Circinus X-1: The Rosetta Stone of Acretion
1 July 2004 AAO Conference Room  3.30p.m. Richard Ellis Exploringthe z > 5 Universe prior to the era of JWST and TMT
6 Nov 2003 ATNF Lecture Theatre Duncan Forbes Galaxy Formation - How and When?
14 Oct 2003 AAO Conference Room Andrew Bunker Seeing the High-Redshift Universe in 3D
30 Sep 2003 ATNF Lecture Theatre Alastair Edge Cooling Flows: My Part in their Downsizing
26 Sep 2003 AAO Conference Room Jon Loveday Evolution of the Galaxy Luminosity Function at z < 0.3
14 Aug 2003 AAO Conference Room Simon Ellis The Evolution of Galaxies in High Redshift Clusters
5 Aug 2003 ATNF Lecture Theatre Heather Morrison Star Streams in the Milky Way Halo
3 July 2003 AAO Conference Room Sonia Giovanna Temporin Compact Galaxy Groups: Interaction-induced Galaxy Evolution
26 June 2003 AAO Conference Room Kenji Bekki Origin of Ultra-Compact Galactic Objects
11 June 2003 ATNF Lecture Theatre John Storey What do you get when you cross an OWL with a penguin?
6 June 2003 AAO Conference Room Jeremy Bailey The Search for Life on Mars
10 February 2003 AAO Conference Room Jorick Vink Probing the Circumstellar Structure of Pre-Main Sequence Stars
9 December 2002 AAO Conference Room Andrew Collier Cameron Tomography of Stars and Stellar Environments
15 October 2002 AAO Conference Room Toru Yamada

Chihiro Tokoku

 The Subaru 8.2m Telescope and Instruments

MOIRCS: Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph for Subaru
23 September 2002 AAO Conference Room Robert Sharp The CIRPASS IR spectrograph
20 September 2002 AAO Conference Room Sam Barden Wide Field Spectroscopic Concepts for 8 and 30-meter telescopes
16 September 2002 AAO Conference Room Gerhardt Meurer HST Advanced Camera for Surveys: Science out of the box
15 July 2002 ATNF Lecture Theatre Joss Bland-Hawthorn Galactic Archeology
1 August 2002 AAO Conference Room Rodrigo Ibata Streams, Clumps and Dark Bumps ... in galaxy halos
16 July 2002 ATNF Lecture Theatre Mark Casali WFCAM and VISTA: two new approaches to widefield imaging in the IR
20 June 2002 AAO Conference Room Pat Hall Odd BALs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
22 May 2002 ATNF Lecture Theatre Wil van Breugel Giant Ly-a Haloes, Massive Galaxies and Proto-Clusters
8 May 2002 ATNF Lecture Theatre Chris Tinney The Anglo-Australian Planet Search : 5 years on
25 March 2002 AAO Conference Room Adam Burgasser What We've Learned About L and T Dwarfs
28 February 2002 AAO Conference Room Jeremy Bailey A High Sensitivity Polarimeter for the Detection of Extrasolar Planets
22 February 2002 AAO Conference Room Mike Beasley Ab Initio Globular Cluster System Formation
13 February 2002 ATNF Lecture Theatre Hagai Netzer X-Ray Storms in Active Galaxies
31 January 2002 AAO Conference Room Ed Colbert The Nature of X-ray Point-source Populations in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies
14 December 2001 AAO Conference Room Mark Hughes Massive Black Holes in Spiral Galaxies
11 December 2001 ATNF Lecture Theatre Andrew Wilson Studies of nearby active galaxies in X-rays with Chandra
5 December 2001 AAO Conference Room Nigel Douglas First Light for the PN Spectrograph - a binocular instrument with an AAO pedigree
29 November 2001 AAO Conference Room Bill Harris Anatomy of a Galaxy: Deconstructing Centaurus
27 November 2001 AAO Conference Room Claire Halliday Halo Dynamics of the Andromeda Galaxy M31
23 November 2001 AAO Conference Room Ivan Baldry Constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum
22 November 2001 AAO Conference Room David Schade Data Mining and the Virtual Observatory
16 November 2001 AAO Conference Room Ariane Lancon The interpretation of UV+optical+near IR spectra of starburst galaxies
7 November 2001 ATNF Lecture Theatre Russell Cannon Evidence on the formation of globular clusters from 2dF spectroscopy
21 September 2001 AAO Conference Room Gavin Dalton Old Galaxies at High Redshift
13 September 2001 AAO Conference Room John Webb Do the Laws of Nature Change with Time?
23 August 2001 ATNF Lecture Theatre Premana Premadi Cosmological Parameter Survey Using the Gravitational Lensing Method
27 July 2001 AAO Conference Room Joss Bland-Hawthorn Cosmology in the Near Field
20 July 2001 AAO Conference Room Ruth Peterson Modeling Mid-Ultraviolet Spectra of Main-Sequence Turnoff Stars
19 July 2001 AAO Conference Room Alan Title Spectroscopic Imaging of the Sun from the Visible to the Extreme Ultraviolet
12 July 2001 AAO Conference Room Albert Zijlstra Bipolar outflows from OH/IR stars
10 July 2001 AAO Conference Room Vikki Meadows Understanding our Twisted Sister: Near-IR Remote-Sensing Observations of the Venus Atmosphere.
30 March 2001 AAO Conference Room Katerina Exter The variable compact radio nebula of P Cygni
22 March 2001 ATNF Lecture Theatre John Huchra Seeing Red: The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey and the Nearby Universe
22 February 2001 AAO Conference Room Katherine Wu A Quantitative Study of Peculiarities in Galaxy Morphology
21 February 2001 AAO Conference Room Roger Romani Transition Edge Sensors for the IR through UV:A New Tool for Astrophysics
15 February 2001 AAO Conference Room Rosalind Wang
Markus Billerwell		 Astrometric Measurements of Gravitational Microlensing Events
IRIS2 - stepper motors
9 February 2001 AAO Conference Room Michelle Doherty
Katie Noakes		 The Colour-Magnitude Diagram of 47 Tuc from WFI Imaging
Materials testing for the Echidna multi-object fibre positioner
9 January 2001 AAO Conference Room Carmen Solorzano-Inarrea Evidence for jet-cloud interactions in high-z radio galaxies
12 December 2001 AAO Conference Room Gerald Cecil Bow-Shocks, Bubbles & Bullets over Broad Lines
11 December 2000 ATNF Basement Conference Room Chris Tinney & Peter Hall Australian Astronomy Beyond 2000 - The Way Ahead
23 November 2000 AAO Conference Room Joachim Wamsganss Gravitational Lensing as a versatile astrophysical tool
14 November 2000 AAO Conference Room Pierre Maxted From SUSI to the LMC and beyond
1 November 2000 ATNF Lecture Theatre Michael Drinkwater The Sky Identified: the 2dF Fornax Spectroscopic Survey
12 October 2000 AAO Conference Room Mike Irwin Ancient White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo?
11 October ATNF Lecture Theatre Will Saunders The Great Attractor, the Greater Attractor and the origin of the CMB dipole
10 October AAO Conference Room Johan Knapen Bars in active and non-active galaxies
20 September 2000 ATNF Lecture Theatre Lisa Kewley Theoretical Modelling of HII regions and Warm Infrared Galaxies
7 September 2000 AAO Conference Room John Webb The high redshift deuterium abundance and the baryonic density parameter; a new measurement
1 September 2000 AAO Conference Room Graham Smith An HST Lensing Survey of X-ray Luminous Clusters - Abell 383
27 July 2000 AAO Conference Room Hiro Takami Spectro-Astrometric Observations of Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries,
Outflows, and Circumstellar Discs
25 July 2000 AAO Conference Room Stuart Ryder Probing Circumnuclear Star Formation with UKIRT
20 July 2000 AAO Conference Room Kevin Pimbblet The LARC Survey and photometric comparison to the APM
14 July 2000 AAO Conference Room Stephen Smartt The second decade of instruments on HST and the NGST project
13 July AAO Conference Room Simon Driver Quantifying the Local Galaxy Population
14 June AAO Conference Room Tim Gledhill Axisymmetric Outflows from post AGB Stars

Quentin Parker, Macquarie University/AAO