Past Fall Astronomy Day Lectures
Sean Solomon, Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Institute, and Principal Investigator for the Mercury MESSENGER Mission
“The MESSENGER Spacecraft Mission to Mercury: Surprises from the Innermost Planet”
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford
“The Last and Next 100 Years in Astronomy“
Don Winget, University of Texas at Austin
“Small Stars in a Large Context: All Things White Dwarf”
Bob Benjamin, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
“A Visitor’s Guide to the Milky Way Galaxy“
Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison / IceCube
“Ice Fishing for Neutrinos“
Giovanni Fazio, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / Spitzer
“Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: the Spitzer Space Telescope“
Hal Levison, Southwest Research Institute
“What Planets Are and How they Form“
Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard / Swift Mission,
“Black Holes: From Einstein to Gamma Ray Bursts“
Michael Turner, University of Chicago
“The Dark Side of the Universe“
Scott Ransom, NRAO-Charlottesville
“The Stellar Undead“
Jeff Hester, Arizona State University,
“From the Big Bang to Big Brains: the Evolution of Structure in the Universe“
Paul Butler, Carnegie Institute,
“Extrasolar Planets: a First Reconnaissance“
Prasun Desai, NASA Langley,
“Mars Exploration in the Coming Decade“
Steve Murray, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / Chandra,
“X-ray Astronomy Comes of Age: the Chandra x-ray Observatory View of the Cosmos“
Jay Bergstralh, NASA Langley,
“The Galilean Satellites of Jupiter“
Virginia Trimble, Univ. Cal-Irvine / Univ. Maryland
“Cosmology: Man’s Place in the Universe“
Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smitshonian Center for Astrophysics,
“The Universe: Big, Old, and Accelerating“
John Wood, NASA Goddard,
“Resolution: Latest Results from the Hubble Space Telescope“
Bruce Carney, UNC-Chapel Hill,
“How Old is Our Universe?“