August 30 The First Billion Years of History: Star Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe Revealed
with the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Prof. Andrew Bunker, Exeter, UK abstract
September 13 Quasars and Cosmology: Accretion Related Feedback and the Growth of Galaxies
Dr. Gordon Richards, JHU abstract
September 20 A Re-examination of UV Extinction and Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Dr. Lynne Valencic, UNA de Mexico abstract
September 27 The Least Luminous Galaxies in the Universe: Clues to the "Missing Galaxy" Problem
Dr. Beth Willman, NYU abstract
October 04 The HST Deep Impact Campaign
Prof. Paul Feldman, JHU abstract
October 18 Science with the James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. Jonathan Gardner, GSFC abstract
November 02 Surveying with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Prof. James Bartlett, APC- Universite Paris 7 abstract
November 08 X-ray Spectroscopy of Local AGN: What is Really Coming from the Inner Disk?
Prof. T. J. Turner, UMBC abstract
November 15 Exploring the Morphological Diversities among the Lyman-Break Galaxies Using GOODS
Dr. Swara Ravindranath, STScI abstract
November 22 Thanksgiving week. No seminar
November 29 Spitzer Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Infrared Luminous Galaxies at z > 1
Dr. Lin Yan, Spitzer Science Center abstract
December 06 The First Year of Swift Observations
Prof. John Nousek, PSU abstract
December 13 Gas Infall and Stochastic Star Formation in Local Galaxies
Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann, MPIA abstract
December 20 What Do Loose Groups Tell Us about Galaxy Formation?
Dr. D. J. Pisano, Naval Research Lab abstract
CAS Seminars, Spring 2005
January 18 Analysing the Large-Scale Structure in the Final 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey Catalogue
Dr. William Percival, ROE abstract
January 25 Early-Type Galaxies from z=1 to the Present: The Fundamental Plane in the Rest-Frame B- and K-band
Dr. Arjen van der Wel, Leiden abstract
February 01 ALMA: Exploring the Outer Limits of Radio Astronomy
Dr. Alwyn Wootten, NRAO abstract
February 15 Probing Decisive Answers to Dark Energy Questions from Cosmic Complementarity and Lensing Tomography
Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Princeton abstract
February 22 The Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables: Clues from HST & FUSE Observations
Dr. Sofia Araujo-Betancor, STScI abstract
March 01 Snow. No talk
March 08 No talk. IGM workshop at STScI
March 15 Star Formation Histories in Andromeda
Dr. Thomas Brown, STScI abstract
March 22 Detailed Magnetic Field Measurements in the Southern Coalsack
Dr. B.G. Andersson, JHU abstract
March 29 New Capabilities in High Energy Astrophysics using the Astro-E2 X-Ray Observatory
Dr. Richard Kelley, GSFC abstract
April 05 No talk. The Brickwedde lecture
April 12 To Pluto and Beyond : The New Horizons Mission
Dr. Hal Weaver, APL abstract
April 19 Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Active Galaxies
Ms. Jenny Greene, CfA abstract
April 26 The Density, Distribution, and Characteristics of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies in Intermediate Redshift Galaxy Clusters
Mr. Steven Crawford, UW-Madison abstract
July 19 Planet Hunting: the Exoplanet Program of the CoRoT Space Mission
Dr. Magali Deleuil, Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale Marseille abstract
CAS Seminars, Fall 2004
September 07 Observing Massive Galaxies at high-redshift with the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
Prof. Karl Glazebrook, JHU abstract
September 14 Morphological Early-Type Galaxies at z~0.75
Dr. Nick Cross, JHU abstract
September 24 Friday The Microlensing Planet Finder: Completing the Census of Planets in the Milky Way
Dr. David Bennett, Notre Dame abstract
September 28 Interpreting the High Frequency QPO Power Spectra of Accreting Black Holes
Dr. Jeremy Schnittman, MIT abstract
October 05 The Accretion History of the Universe
Dr. Richard Mushotzky, GSFC abstract
October 12 A 400th Anniversary Look at Kepler's Supernova Remnant using the Great Observatories
Dr. Ravi Sankrit abstract
October 19 New Water Opacity for Cool Stars
Mr. Robert Barber, UCL, UK abstract
October 26 ACS Observations of Galaxies in 'Protoclusters'
Mr. Roderik Overzier, Leiden abstract
November 02 Election Day. No talk
November 09 Dwarf Novae in Quiescence
Dr. Knox Long, STScI abstract
November 16 The Role of Three-Body Encounters in IMBH Formation
Mr. Kayhan Gultekin, UMCP abstract
November 23 Massive Stars and the Origin of Hot Gas in and around Star Forming Galaxies
Dr. David Strickland, JHU abstract
November 30 Another One Bites the Dust -- Chandra Observations of MBM12 and Models of the Local Bubble
Dr. Randall Smith, GSFC abstract
December 07 Programmable Aperture Masks for JWST Near Infra-Red Spectrometer (NIRSpec)
Dr. Alexander Kutyrev, GSFC abstract
December 14 A Study of Distant Ly-alpha Emitters in Overdense Regions
Mr. Bram Venemans, Leiden abstract
CAS Seminars, Spring 2004
January 29 Room 475, The Cosmically Averaged Universe out to z~3abstract
February 13, The X-Ray Background
Dr. Gyula Szokoly, MPE, Germany, abstract
February 17, Fe II Curtain in Quasar Spectra
Dr. Katya Verner, GSFC, abstract
February 24, Bubbles, Shells, and Massive Stars in W49A: Observing the birth of a massive star cluster
Dr. Nicole Homeier, JHU, abstract
March 02, Quark Nugget and the Expansion of the Universe
Dr. Vigdor Teplitz, GSFC, abstract
March 16, New Horizons with Open Clusters: the WOCS
Dr. Imants Platais, JHU, abstract
March 23, X-ray Probes of Local and Cosmological Star Formation
Dr. Andrew Ptak, JHU, abstract
April 06, Fabry-Perot Imaging of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8: A Benchmark for Exploring Ejecta
Kinematics in Core Collapse SNe
Dr. Parviz Ghavamian, JHU, abstract
April 13, The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer Mission
Dr. John Nousek, Penn State U., abstract
April 20, New Results from the LALA Survey
Dr. Jun-Xian Wang, JHU, abstract
April 28, The Deep Impact Comet Mission
Dr. Carey Lisse, U. Maryland, abstract
May 26, Abundance Determinations in Extragalactic HII Regions with FUSE: The Status
Dr. Vianney Leboutellier, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, abstract
CAS Seminars, Fall 2003
September 09 What are ultraluminous X-ray sources?
Dr. Tim Roberts, Leicester, abstract
September 16 The Great Power-Law in the Sky; the Turbulent Cascade from Hundreds of Parsecs to Thousands of Kilometers
Prof. Ethan Vishniac, JHU, abstract
September 23 Accretion Disk Atmospheres
Dr. Mario Jimenez-Garate, MIT, abstract
September 30 A Spectroscopic Tour of the Solar System with FUSE
Prof. Paul Feldman, JHU, abstract
October 07 Interstellar Dust seen with X-ray Halos
Dr. Randall Smith, CfA, abstract
October 14 Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution
Dr. Tomotsugu Goto, JHU, abstract
October 21 From Extrasolar Planets to High Redshift Gamma Ray Bursts
Prof. Jian Ge, Penn State, abstract
October 28 No Seminar
November 04 No seminar. Election Day
November 11 Formation of Globular Clusters in Hierarchical Cosmology
Dr. Oleg Gnedin, STScI, abstract
November 18 Quasar Physics from Unusual SDSS Quasars
Dr. Patrick Hall, Princeton, abstract
November 25 No seminar. Defrost turkeys.
December 02 Gamma-Ray Burst: New Observational Results and Numerical Simulation
Dr. John Cannizzo, GSFC/UMBC, abstract
December 09 X-ray Probes of Star Formation Outside the Local Universe
Dr. Ann Hornschemeier, JHU, abstract
December 16 The SDSS Data Release 2 - Access to 2 Terabytes of Data Online
Dr. Ani Thakar, JHU, Bring your laptop. abstract
CAS Seminars, Spring 2003
Feb. 04 Faint galaxies in deep ACS fields: photometry and photo-z
Dr. Narciso Benitez, JHU, abstract
Feb. 11 An Ultra-High-Resolution Survey of the Interstellar ^7Li/^6Li Isotope Ratio in the Solar Neighborhood
Dr. David Knauth, JHU, abstract
Feb. 18 CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW STORM - re-scheduled for Mar 4
Feb. 25 Inappropriate Probes of Dense Molecular Clouds
Dr. Paul Goldsmith, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University and NAIC, abstract
Mar. 04 Far Ultraviolet Properties of Low Redshift AGN
Dr. Gerard Kriss, STScI, abstract
Mar. 11 Probing the Ionization State of the Universe at z>6
Dr. Rick White, STScI, abstract
Mar. 18 Numerically Modelling Accretion Flows
Dr. James Murray, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia
Mar. 25 Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect
Dr. Simona Mei, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Universite' Paris-Sud, France, abstract
Apr. 01 CANCELLED
Apr. 08 The Nearby Galaxies Supernova Search: The Rate of Supernova in The Local Universe
Dr. Louis Strolger, STScI, abstract
Apr. 15 The End of the Dark Ages: The Formation of the First Stars and Quasars
Dr. Volker Bromm, CfA, abstract
Apr. 22 Nearby Stellar Associations as Proto-planetary Disk Laboratories
Dr. Alycia Weinberger, DTM, Carnegie Institution of Washington, abstract
Apr. 29 FUSE Observations of Variability in Hot-Star Winds
Dr. Alex Fullerton, JHU
May. 06 NO CAS SEMINAR -- STScI May Symposium
May. 13 CANCELLED - re-scheduled for May 20
May. 20 From Cores to Disks: Studying Star formation with SIRTF
Dr. Lee Mundy, University of Maryland, College Park, abstract
May. 27 NO CAS SEMINAR - 202nd AAS Meeting
CAS Seminars, Fall 2002
Sep. 17 The Compact High Velocity HI Clouds as Dark Matter Mini-Halos
Prof. Amiel Sternberg, School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, abstract
Sep. 24 Lyman Alpha Galaxies and Reionization
Dr. James Rhoads, STScI, abstract
Oct. 01 The cosmic velocity dipole in the radio galaxy distribution
Dr. Chris Blake, University of New South Wales, Sydney, abstract
Oct. 08 The Gemini Deep Deep Survey - First Results
Dr. Karl Glazebrook, JHU, abstract
Oct. 15 Parsec-scale radio structures in AGN as cosmological probes
Dr. Leonid Gurvits, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, Dwingeloo, abstract
Oct. 22 High Energy Resolution Chandra Observations of OB Stars:
Have we Finally Determined the Source of the X-Ray Emission?
Dr. Wayne Waldron, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, abstract
Oct. 29 CANCELLED -- Special Departamental Colloquium
Nov. 05 How Unusual are Stars with Planets?
Dr. Neill Reid, STScI
Nov. 12 TBD
Dr. Kenneth Sembach, STScI
Nov. 19 Observing Relativistic Jet Formation in Microquasars
Dr. Steve Eikenberry, Cornell University, abstract
Nov. 26 NO CAS SEMINAR -- Thanksgiving week
Dec. 03 Abundances and Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Gas
Dr. Paule Sonnentrucker, JHU, abstract
Dec. 10 The Unified Model & Evolution of Active Galaxies:
Implications from a Spectropolarimetric Study
Dr. Hien Tran, JHU, abstract
Dec. 17 OPEN
Dec. 24 NO CAS SEMINAR -- Christmas week
CAS Seminars, Spring 2002
Jan. 22 New Populations of Distant Active Galaxies Revealed by Deep Chandra and HST Observations
Dr. Anton Koekemoer, STScI
Jan. 29 Astrophysical Dynamos: Principles, Progress, and Problems
Dr. Eric Blackman, University of Rochester
This is a joint CAS/TIPAC seminar.
Feb. 05 TBD
Dr. Lynne Allen, University of Michigan
Feb. 12 TBD
Dr. Xiaohui Fan, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Feb. 19 The Mass Distribution in Dwarf and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Dr. Rob Swaters, JHU
Feb. 26 OPEN
Mar. 05 OPEN
Mar. 12 TBD
Dr. Zeljko Ivezic, Princeton
Mar. 19 OPEN
Mar. 26 TBD
Mr. Eric Peng, JHU
Apr. 02 OPEN
Apr. 09 OPEN
Apr. 16 TBD
Dr. John Blakeslee, JHU
Apr. 23 OPEN
Apr. 30 OPEN
May 07 Hubble Spring Symposium
NO CAS SEMINAR
May 14 OPEN
May 21 OPEN
CAS Seminars, Fall 2001
Sep. 10 SkyServer: Education and Outreach for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Mr. Jordan Raddick, science writer JHU/SDSS, abstract
***NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME - Monday, 3:30pm***
Sep. 18 CMB unraveled: News from the oldest photons
Dr. Douglas Scott, University of British Columbia, Canada
This is a joint CAS/TIPAC seminar.
Sep. 25 Stellar Observations with Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
Dr. Tom Pauls, Naval Research Laboratory
Oct. 01 HST Lensing Survey of Galaxy Clusters
Dr. Graham Smith, University of Durham, UK, abstract
***NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME - Monday, 3:30pm***
Oct. 09 Science and Operations with the FUSE satellite: a Status Report
Dr. Bill Blair, Chief of Observatory Operations, FUSE (JHU/CAS)
Oct. 16 Intracluster Stars in the Virgo Cluster
Dr. Patrick Durrell, Penn State University, abstract
Oct. 23 Dwarf Star-Forming Galaxies in the Local Universe: the HST Perspective
Dr. Alessandra Aloisi, JHU/CAS, abstract
Oct. 30 The X-ray Background with Chandra: 1Msec observation of the Chandra Deep Field South
Dr. Paolo Tozzi, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy, abstract
Nov. 06 Photochemistry in Comets
Prof. William Jackson, UC Davis
Nov. 13 Sodium at Io: The Many Faces of Atmospheric Escape
Dr. Matthew Burger, University of Colorado
Nov. 20 NO CAS SEMINAR -- Thanksgiving week
Nov. 27 XMM-EPIC observation of MCG-6-30-15: Evidence for the extraction of
energy from a spinning black hole?
Dr. Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland, College Park, abstract
Dec. 04 On the Nature of Globular Clusters
Dr. Georges Meylan, STScI/ESA
Dec. 11 Far UV Spectroscopy of WZ Sge - Hot Again after 23 Years
Dr. Knox Long, STScI
Dec. 18 Research opportunities at APL
Dr. Andy Cheng, APL
Dec. 25 NO CAS SEMINAR -- Christmas Day
CAS Seminars, Spring 2001 (Ave. attend. = 22 +/- 11)
Jan. 23 "Timescales of Anisotropic Collapse: Challenging the Spherical Model"
Dr. Martin Kerscher, JHU/CAS
Jan. 30 "Why is it So Hard to Measure the Strength of Gravity?"
Dr. Stephen Merkowitz, NASA/GSFC LHEA
Feb. 06 "SDSS discoveries of L and T Dwarfs: Our Ultracool Solar Neighbors"
Dr. David Golimowski, JHU/CAS
Feb. 13 NO SEMINAR
Feb. 20 "The NGST Detector Program at STScI/JHU"
Dr. Don Figer, STScI
Feb. 27 "FUSE and HST Observations of Sirius-like Binary Systems"
Dr. Matt Burleigh, (FUSE Visitor)
Mar. 06 "FUSE Observations of the Vela SNR"
Dr. Ravi Sankrit, JHU/CAS
Mar. 13 "The Cosmic Infrared Background"
Dr. Edward L. (Ned) Wright, IAS (Princeton)/UCLA
Mar. 20 "Intermediate-luminosity X-ray Objects: Accreting Intermediate-mass
Black Holes?"
Dr. Ed Colbert, JHU/CAS
Mar. 27 NO CAS SEMINAR--JHU 125th Anniversary
Apr. 03 "Hubble Spring Symposium"
NO CAS SEMINAR
Apr. 10 "Chandra Imaging Spectroscopy of Nearby AGN"
Dr. David Smith, U of MD
Apr. 17 "The Birth Properties of Neutron Stars"
Dr. Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA-GSFC/LHEA
Apr. 24 "Brickwedde Week"
NO CAS SEMINAR
CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED
May 01 "Advanced Camera Update"
Dr. Holland Ford et al., JHU/CAS
May 08 "Search for Large Scale Diffuse X-ray Emission in the Shapley Supercluster"
Dr. Sandor Molnar, GSFC/USRA
CAS Seminars, Fall 2000 (Ave. attend. = 29.9 +/- 12.4)
Sept. 12 "PRIME - A Near-Infrared Survey"
Dr. Wei Zheng, JHU/CAS
Sept. 19 "Weakly-ionized Accretion Disks"
Dr. Kristen Menou, Princeton University,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Sept. 26 "Gamma Ray Burst Energetics and Environments from Afterglow Studies"
Dr. James Rhoads, STScI
Oct. 03 "The Origin of OVI in the Interstellar Medium:
Death of the Evaporative Cloud Model?"
Dr. Bill Oegerle, JHU/CAS
Oct. 10 "Status of the SIM Mission"
Dr. Ron Allen, STScI
Oct. 17 "The Physics of X-ray Jets"
Dr. Meg Urry, STScI
Oct. 24 "The Ionization of the Warm Ionized Medium in Nearby Spirals"
Dr. Charles Hoopes, JHU/CAS
Oct. 31 "Poissonian Analysis of Quasar Variability: Theory & Observations"
Dr. Roberto Cid Fernandes, JHU/CAS
Nov. 07 "The Stellar Collider in the Galactic Center"
Dr. Tal Alexander, STScI
Nov. 14 "Dust Absorption and Reddening of Starbursts"
Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
Nov. 21 "The Death and Resurrection of Mean Field Dynamo Theory"
Dr. Ethan Vishniac, JHU/CAS
Nov. 28 "The Search for O VI Emission from the Galaxy's Hot
Interstellar Medium"
Dr. Robin Shelton, JHU/CAS
Dec. 05 "X-rays from the AGN and the X-ray Reflectors in the Seyfert
Galaxy NGC1068"
Dr. Ed Colbert, JHU/CAS
Dec. 12 "Time-dependent X-ray Reflection by Photoionized Accretion
Disks: Implications for Fe K-alpha Line Reveberation
Studies of AGN"
Dr. Sergei Nayakshin, NRC Fellow, NASA/GSFC
CAS Seminars, Spring 2000 (Ave. attend. = 29.3 +/- 9.5)
Jan. 25: "Initial Results from the FUSE Mission"
Local FUSE Science Team Members, JHU/CAS
***Postponed due to Weather***
Feb. 01: "Some Like It Hot: Understanding Starburst-driven Galactic Winds"
Dr. Dave Strickland, JHU/CAS
Feb. 08: "Mapping the Accretion Disks of Compact Binary Systems at
Near-Infrared Wavelengths"
Dr. Cynthia Froning, STScI
Feb. 15: "Initial Results from the FUSE Mission"
Local FUSE Science Team Members, JHU/CAS
(NOTE: Rescheduled from Jan. 25. After a few introductory remarks, FUSE
posters from the recent AAS meeting will be available for inspection,
and local FUSE scientists will be available for informal discussions.)
Feb. 22: "The Surprising Environments of Massive Evolved Stars in M31"
Dr. Nichole King, STScI
Feb. 29: "FUSE Observations of High Velocity Clouds"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Mar. 07: "Discovering the Physics of Jets in Active Galaxies"
Dr. Eric Perlman, JHU/CAS
Mar. 14: "The Evolution of X-ray CLusters and the Entropy of
the Intra-Cluster Medium"
Dr. Paolo Tozzi, JHU/CAS
Mar. 21: "Spring Break Week...No Talk Scheduled"
Mar. 28: "X-ray Spectral Line Variability in Seyfert 1 Galaxies"
*Mr. Jonathan Gelbord, JHU/CAS
Apr. 04: "Far Infrared Spectroscopy of Normal Galaxies:
Physical Conditions and Energetics in Starforming ISM"
Dr. Sangeeta Malhotra, JHU/CAS
Apr. 11: "HST Workshop--No CAS Seminar"
Apr. 18: "Grain Alignment and Interstellar Polarization"
Dr. Wayne Roberge, Physics Dept., RPI
Apr. 25: "The Rocket Science of Expelling Stellar Disks"
Dr. Stan Owocki, Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
May 02: "Star Clusters and the Duration of Starbursts"
*Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
May 09: "Brickwedde Lecture--No CAS Seminar"
CAS Seminars, Fall 1999 (Ave. attend. = 23 +/- 5)
Sept. 14: "New Atomic Data Computations and Experimental Benchmarking
of Collisional-radiative (CR) Models for Ions of Astrophysical
and Laboratory Plasma Physics Interest"
Dr. Mario Mattioli, EURATOM-ENEA Association
for Fusion Research, Frascati, Italy
Sept. 21: "High-Velocity Clouds: Tidal Debris or Baby Galaxies?"
Dr. Mary Putman, Mt. Stromlo Observatory - Australian National
University, JHU/CAS visitor
Sept. 28: NOTE: Joint CAS/TIPAC Seminar
"Putting Some Pieces of the Quasar Puzzle Together"
Dr. Ari Laor, Technion U.
Oct. 5: "The Molecular Universe"
Dr. Xander Tielens, Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen
Oct. 12: "Commissioning NIRSPEC: Hot Stars and Cool Clouds
of the Eagle Nebula PDR"
Dr. Nancy Levenson, JHU/CAS
Oct. 19: "Thermal Ionization Instability and Iron Lines from Accretion Disks
in AGN and GBHCs"
Dr. Sergei Nayakshin, NASA/GSFC, NRC Associate
Oct. 26: "Massive Star Formation in Early-type(Sa-Sab) Spiral Galaxies"
Mr. Salman Hameed, New Mexico State University
Nov. 2: "Driving Outflows from Young Stars Using Internal Disk
Magnetic Fields"
Dr. Neal Turner, Univ. of MD
Nov. 9: "EUV and X-ray Properties of Hot Stars"
Dr. David Cohen, Bartol/U. Delaware
Nov. 16: "Supernovae and Beamed Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Dr. Insu Yi, Korean Institute for Advanced Study
Nov. 23: "Modern Measurements of Omega and Lambda"
Dr. Andrew Jaffe, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Nov. 30: "Maryland Space Grant Consortium"
Dr. Richard Henry, JHU/CAS
Dec. 7: "Cold Clouds and Hot Stars in the Thick Disks of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Chris Howk, JHU/CAS
Dec. 14: "Imaging an Event Horizon"
Dr. Eric Agol, JHU/CAS
CAS Seminars, Spring 1999 (Ave. attend. = 35 +/- 9)
Jan. 26: "A Comparison of Two Ultraluminous Supernova Remnants"
Dr. Bill Blair, JHU/CAS
Feb. 02: "The Origin and Clustering Properties of Low-Redshift QSO
Absorption Line Systems Towards the Galactic Poles"
Dr. Daniel Vanden Berk, U. Texas
Feb. 09: "Tracing Chemical Evolution of Galaxies with Quasar
Absorption Lines"
Dr. Varsha Kulkarni, U. Arizona
Feb. 16: "Planning Observations with XMM and Astro-E"
Dr. Kim Weaver, JHU/CAS and NASA/GSFC
Feb. 23: "Massive Stars Near the Galactic Center"
Dr. Don Figer, UCLA
Mar. 02: "High Redshift Clusters: New Results from Keck and HST"
Dr. Marc Postman, JHU/CAS and STScI
Mar. 09: "The Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters: An Easy Model and
What We Can Learn from It"
Dr. Rosendo Vilchez-Gomez, STScI
Mar. 16: "Spring Break--No CAS Seminar"
Mar. 23: "Precision Cosmology with CMB Experiments and Large
Redshift Surveys"
Dr. Daniel Eisenstein, IAS/Princeton
Mar. 25: "Accessing and Using SDSS Test Data at JHU"
Dr. Wei Zheng, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday, 1 p.m., rm 361
Mar. 30: "Protostellar Outflows" POSTPONED!!
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, JHU/CAS
Apr. 01: "Probing the Inner Regions of AGN with
X-ray Spectroscopy"
Dr. Chris Reynolds, Univ. of Colorado
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 05: "The Next Generation of Faint Redshift Surveys"
Dr. Karl Glazebrook, Anglo-Australian Observatory
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Monday, 4 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 06: No CAS Seminar--Brickwedde Lecture
Apr. 09: "Measuring Feedback and Understanding
Its Role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
Dr. Crystal Martin, STScI
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Friday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 13: "The Optical and UV Light Echo of SN 19987A"
Dr. Steve Lawrence, Columbia U.
Apr. 14: "Spiral Galaxies with HST: Clues to Bulge Formation"
Dr. Marcella Carollo, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Wednesday, 4 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 15: "The Search for High Redshift Galaxy Clusters:
Present Status and Future Prospects"
Dr. Piero Rosati, European Southern Observatory
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday 4:00 p.m. - Bloomberg 361
Apr. 16: "The Galactic Disk-Halo Connection: Understanding
QSO Absorption Line Systems and Chemical Evolution"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Friday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 20: NO CAS SEMINAR
Apr. 27: "Radio Signature of HI at High Redshifts: Mapping the End of the Dark Age"
Dr. Paolo Tozzi, JHU/CAS
May 04: No CAS Seminar--STScI Conference
May 11: "Protostellar Outflows" (Rescheduled from Mar. 30)
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, JHU/CAS
June 1: "Three Point Statistics in Large-Scale Structure:
From Theory to Observations"
Dr. Roman Scoccimaro, CITA
CAS Seminars, Fall 1998 (Ave. attend. = 26.5)
Sept. 8: "The z=1.6748 C I Absorber Toward the QSO PKS 1756+237"
Dr. Kathy Roth, IfA, Hawaii
Sept. 15: "The Low End of the Initial Mass Function for the R136
Cluster in the LMC"
Dr. Marco Sirianni, JHU/CISAS-Italy
Sept. 22: "The Pressure in Molecular Cloud Envelopes; HST Measurements
of the C I Fine Structure Lines towards B5"
Dr. B-G Andersson, JHU/CAS
Sept. 29: "Do cluster galaxies have extended dark halos?"
Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan, CITA (Toronto)
Oct. 6: "The 1998/1999 Leonid Meteor Storms"
Dr. Ed Murphy, JHU/CAS
Oct. 13: "The Host Galaxies of AGN"
Dr. Meg Urry, JHU/CAS and STScI
Oct. 20: "The Ecology of the Cygnus Loop"
Dr. Nancy Levenson, JHU/CAS
Oct. 27: "Evolutionary Status of Dwarf 'Transition' Galaxies"
Dr. Pat Knezek, JHU/CAS
Nov. 3: "Election Day-Vote Early and Often!"
No CAS Seminar
Nov. 10: "The Distance Scale to Globular Clusters"
Dr. Carla Cacciari,
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy
Nov. 17: "Dusty Clouds and Star Formation in the Disk-Halo
Interface of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Chris Howk, UW-Madison
Nov. 24: "Phase A study for CUVIT: the Canadian UV Imaging Telescope"
Dr. John Hutchings, DAO/HIA/NRC
Dec. 1: "Two-dimensional Radiative Transfer in Circumstellar Flows"
Dr. C.P. Dullemond, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Dec. 8: "How Big is the M82 Superwind?"
Dr. David Devine, NASA/GSFC
CAS Seminars, Spring 1998 (Ave. attend. = 24
Feb. 3: "Another Piece of the Sky: Supernova Remnants in the
Milky Way's Halo"
Dr. Robin Shelton, LHEA/NASA GSFC
Special CAS Seminar--Thur. 1 p.m., rm 361 ***CANCELLED***
Feb. 5: "High-Velocity Clouds"
Dr. Eric Schulman, NRAO
Feb. 10: "Opening Up the Mg II Absorbing Universe"
Dr. Chris Churchill, Penn State
Feb. 17: "Structure of the Crab Nebula Filaments"
Dr. Ravi Sankrit, Arizona State University
Feb. 24: "Brickwedde Lecture -- no CAS Seminar"
Mar. 3: "The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Filling A Crucial Gap
in Our Knowledge of the Sky"
Dr. Luciana Bianchi, JHU/CAS
Special CAS Seminar: Wed. at 2 p.m., rm 235:
Mar. 4: "Investigating the Intergalactic Medium Using Unique
QSO Configurations"
Mr. Eric Monier, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Mar. 10: "3-D Spectrography of AGNs with TIGER/OASIS"
Dr. Pierre Ferruit, Univ. of MD
Mar. 17: "Spring Break Week" (No Talk.)
Mar. 24: "The IUE MEGA Campaign: A New View of Hot-Star Winds"
Dr. Alex Fullerton, JHU/CAS
Mar. 31: "Starbursts, Dark Matter, and the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies"
Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
Apr. 7: "The Relationship Between Galaxies and QSO Lyman Alpha
Clouds at Low Redshifts"
Dr. Todd Tripp, Princeton University
Special CAS Seminar--Thur. 1 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 9: "IMAS/UV: The Indian Astronomy Satellite"
Dr. A. K. Pati, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Apr. 14: "Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology"
Dr. Bhuvnesh Jain, JHU/CAS
Apr. 21: "What's Up with High Velocity Clouds?"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Apr. 28: "Potts Lecture" Dr. Martin Rees. [No CAS Seminar]
May 5: STScI Conference on Stellar Evolution, May 4-7. [No CAS Seminar]
May 12: "Evolution of the M/L Ratios of Early-Type Galaxies to
Intermediate Redshift"
Dr. Dan Kelson, Carnegie/DTM
May 19: "How Do Bright Accretion Disks Shine?"
Dr. Eric Agol, JHU/CAS
June 2: "A Proposer's Guide to the XMM Mission"
Dr. Richard Mushotzky, NASA/GSFC, and JHU/CAS
Note: special date (time TBD):
June 4: "Diffuse EUV Emission from Clusters of Galaxies;
A New Component of Cluster Gas or Something Else?"
(Thur.) Dr. Stu Bowyer, UC Berkeley
CAS Seminars, Fall 1997 (Ave. attend. = 35
Sept. 16: "Do We Understand How Accretion Disks in AGN Radiate?"
Dr. Julian Krolik, JHU/CAS
Sept. 23: "Tilted Accretion Disks in the Active Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Anne Kinney, STScI/JHU
Sept. 30: "FUSE: The Instrument and Its Science Program"
Drs. Bill Oegerle and Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Oct. 7: "Status of the HST Advanced Camera for Surveys"
Drs. H. Ford, M. Clampin, Z. Tsvetanov
Oct. 14: "Apache Point Observatory Status Report"
Dr. Alan Uomoto, JHU/CAS
Oct. 21: "Black Holes and The Central Regions of Early Type Galaxies"
Dr. Laura Ferrarese, CalTech
Oct. 28: "Accurate Distances to Galactic Planetary Nebulae"
Dr. Emanuel Vassiliadis,
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Nov. 4: "News from the Space Science Enterprise"
Dr. Chuck Holmes, NASA//HQ
Nov. 11: "Sounding Rocket Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp"
Mr. Jason McPhate, JHU/CAS
"Multispectral Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp with MSX"
Mr. David Kupperman, JHU/APL
Nov. 18: "Gravitational Lens Time Delays and the Hubble Constant"
Dr. Paul L. Schechter, MIT
Nov. 24: "HST Spectroscopy of Helium Rich (pre-) White Dwarfs"
Dr. Stefan Dreizler, Univ. of Tubingen
"Mass-loss Rates from FUV P Cygni Lines in PG1159 Stars"
Dr. Lars Koesterke, Univ. of Tubingen
NOTE: Special Monday Seminar, in rm. 361 at 3:30 p.m.
Nov. 25: "A Proposer's Guide to the AXAF Satellite"
Dr. Richard Mushotzky, NASA/GSFC, and JHU/CAS
(NOTE: To be held in the Schafler Auditorium!)
Dec. 2: "The GTC Project: An Advanced 10m Telescope"
Drs. P. Alvarez and Jose M. Rodriguez Espinosa
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Dec. 9: "Current Research in Interstellar and Circumstellar Problems"
Dr. Tom Hartquist, JHU/CAS Visitor,
Max Planck Institute fuer Extraterrestrische Physik and
Univ. of Leeds
Dec. 16: "Massive Counterrotating Disks in Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Ani Thakar, JHU/CAS