[SJAAboard] Speaker history

David Smith areopagus125 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 19 23:15:24 MDT 2008


Rich said it might be useful to be able to show a history of speakers to the Houge reuse committee, since the meetings are free and open to the public.  When I started scheduling speakers (starting with 3/2005), I went back through past Ephemerides to collect a list of past speakers, and then continued to append from there.  Here is the list.

  -- David



1997
Jan 25
Feb 22
Mar 22  Dan Zuras                     Group
70
Apr 19                                       Swap meet
May 17Dave Sworin, AAVSO
Jun 21   Al Stern, ASP
Jul 19    Ernie Piini                     Mongolian
Eclipse Trip
Aug 16  Bob Fingerhut                Schmidt
Camera Photography
Sep 13                                      Slide/eqpt
night
Oct
Nov 8    Dr Ken Croswell, Planet Quest author      Drama Surrounding Discovery of Planets
Both in
                                                Our
System and Around Other Stars
Dec 13  Bob Garfinkle                 What
are / how to observe dark haloed craters on Moon
 
1998
Jan 10   Al Stern, ASP                Recent
Discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope
Feb 7
Mar 14  Don Machholz               Messier Marathon
Apr 4                                        swap/auction
May 9   John Dobson
Jun 6    Benoit Schillings            CCD Imaging
Jul 11
Aug 8    Jose Olivarez, Chabot dir. & former
Jupiter ALPO recorder             The
Wonders of Jupiter
Sep                                          Slide/equipment
night
Oct 3    "Meteorite" Peter Jenniskens      Observing the Leonids
Nov 7    Norm Sperling                Oxymoronic Astronomy (humor)
Dec 5    Jeff Moore                     Latest
Details on Enigmatic Europa
 
1999
Jan 30
Feb 27                                      Members'
Night: Observing Plans, Targets of Opportunity
Mar 27
Apr 24                                       Swap/auction
May 22Chris Cody                    Bad
Astronomy
Jun 26   Bob Garfinkle                 Observinge
the Rays & Bright Spots on the Moon
Jul 24    Ernie Piini                     February
eclipse
Aug 28  Bob Fingerhut                Eyepiece
Projection
Sep 25                                      Slide/Equipment
night
Oct 23  Jane Houston                Telescope
and Mirror Making
Nov 20  Dr Ken Croswell             Magnificent Universe, follow-on to Timothy Ferris'
Galaxies
Dec 18                                      Christmas
potluck
 
2000
Jan 22   Michael Light                 author
of Full Moon
Feb 19  Jeff Moore                     Mars
Polar Lander, Galileo
Mar 18  Mike Koop, Jane HJ       Leonid Multi-instrument Aircraft Campaign
Apr 15                                       Auction
May 20                                     Slide/Equipment
night
Jun 16   Gary Peterson               Basaltic
Flooding of Planetary Landscapes
July 15  Dr James Kaufman         The Moon Illusion
Aug 19  Jay Freeman                 Jay
Freeman Stargazes the Frozen Arctic Wastes of Hawaii
Sep 16                                      Slide
& Equipment Night
Oct 14  Wyn Wachhorst             his
book The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near Edge of Infinity
Nov 11  Alan Adler                     On
Enhancing Newtonian Telescopes
Dec 9                                        Christmas
Party
 
2001
Jan 10   Craig Wandke                The
Apollo Missions
Feb 10  Dr Kevin Zahnle, Ames   Asteroid 4769 Castalia vs Venus: Home Movies of Big Bolides
Mar 10  Peggy Bernard, Lick       The Vulcan (camera) Project to detect extrasolar planets
Apr 8                                        Auction
May 5   Seth Shostak                SETI
Jun 2    Dr. Larry Lasher             Pioneer 10/11 & the Search for the Heliosphere
Jul 7     Greg Laughlin, NASA     The Future of the Solar System
Aug 4    Elinor Gates, Lick
Sep 8                                        Slide
& Equipment Night
Oct 6    Jeff Moore, NASA          Jupiter's Moons
Nov 3    Robert Naeye, ASP        Chandra X-ray Observatory
Dec 1                                        Christmas
party
 
2002
Jan 26   Mike Bennett, ASP        SOFIA
Feb 23  Tim Thompson, NASA/JPL         Stellar Evolution
            Karin Avila                     Project Astro
Mar 30  Christopher Mauch, LLL  Satellite Observations of Binary & Cataclysmic Variables
Apr 28                                       Auction
May 18Tim Castellano               Planet
Transit Search Project
Jun 22   Robert Naeye                The
Great Pluto Debate
Jul 27    Dr. Ken Lum                  Optical
Designer Bernhard V. Schmidt
Aug 24  Juanita Ryan                 AntarcticaMeteorite Trip
Sep 21                                      Slide
& Equipment Night
Oct 19  Br. Guy Consolmagno, Vatican   Brother
Astronomer
Nov 16  Tony Misch, Lick           Early solar eclipse expeditions of Lick Observatory
Dec 14  Geoffrey Briggs              Plans for Mars Exploration
 
2003
Jan 18   Dr. Nick Kanas              Of Epicycles and Unicorns: Celestial Mapping in the
Golden Age
Feb 15  Mike Koop, Morris & Jane Jones             SJAA Flies Through the Leonids
Mar 15  Robert Naeye, ASP        Solving the Universe's Mysteries Through Extra Dimensions
Apr 13   Fulvio Melia                   The
Black Hole at the Middle of the Galaxy
May 17Norm Sperling                his
book, What Your Astronomy Textbook Won't Tell You
Jun 14   Dr. Scott Sandford         The Stardust Mission: To Return a Sample from a Comet
Jul 12    TBA
Aug 9    Tim Thompson               Astrophysics,
Cosmology, & the Age of the Universe
Sep 13                                      Slide
& Equipment
Oct 11  Dr. Bruce Weaver, MIRAUsing Artificial Intelligence to Classify Double Stars
Nov 8    Bob Garfinkle                 History of Lunar Eclipses
            Jane Houston Jones       Observing with Caroline, Williamina,
Jocelyn, Annie, & friends
Dec 6    Jeff Moore, NASA          Pluto mission
 
2004
Jan 10   Dr. Elinor Gates, Lick     Adaptive Optics
Feb 7    Alex Filippenko              The Case for Cosmic Anti-Gravity
Mar 6    Don Machholz               Messier Marathon
Apr 4                                        Auction
May 1   Ken Croswell                 his
book, "Magnificent Mars"
Jun 5
Jul 31    Tony Misch                   What's
up @Lick - State of the Observatory
Aug 28  Karel Schrijver, Lockheed Magnetic Weather
& Climate of Sun & its Environment
Sep 25                                      slide
& equipment
Oct 23  Denni Medlock               Dragon
Skies, Astronomy of Imperial China
Nov 20  Don Machholz               comet
Machholz
Dec 18  Panel                            SJAA
50th Anniversary
 
2005
Jan 22   Dale Cruikshank            Cassini/Huygens
Feb 26  Scott Sandford               Stardust
mission
Mar 26  Steve Gottlieb                The
NGC and IC project – an amateur/professional collaboration
Apr 24   Auction
May 21Naishi Min                     traditional
Chinese astronomy
Jun 18   Dorothy Schaumberg       Lick Observatory Mary Lea
Shane Archives
Jul 23    Richard Crisp                 astroimaging
Aug 20  Marian Chuang              return
to Moon, on to Mars
Sep 17  -----                               Slides
& Equipment night
Oct 15  Diane Wooden               Deep
Impact
Nov 12  Ben Shelef                    Spaceward
Foundation: space elevators
Dec 17  Irwin Sobel                    Milky
Way Yurt
 
2006
Jan 14   Bob Garfinkle                 Crab nebula
Feb 11  Jeff Moore                     Finding
the evidence for water on Mars – or Saturn’s satellites
Mar 11  Paul Zurakowski, Richard Ozar               Mirror testing, Chabot workshop
April 9   auction
May 13members                       eclipses
Jun 10   Peter Jenniskens           Meteor showers: where they come from and how they are predicted
Jul 8     Albert Highe                  Making lightweight telescopes
Aug 12  Timothy Thompson         Science & Images from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Sep 9    -----                               slides
& equipment night
Oct 7    Steve Stahler                 Why Are There Stars?
Nov 4    Ivan Linscott                  Probing the Solar System with Radio Waves
Dec 2    Shiloh Unruh                  Egypteclipse
 
2007
Jan 6    Bob Fies                       Mirror
aluminizing
Feb 3    Doug Brown                   FPOA,
Mars
Mar 3    James Graham              Planetary
debris disk observations w/Keck (AO), Hubble
Apr 28   Karrie Gilbert                 Andromeda galaxy halo stars
May 26Jeffrey Cuzzi                  The
Rings of Saturn
Jun 30   John Dillon                    Searching
for the First Telescope
Jul 28    Bryant Grigsby              Lick AO
Aug 25  Graeme Smith               Globular
Clusters: Fossils of the Sky
Sep 22  ---                                 photo
& equipment night
Oct
27  Peter Dunckel                Mapping Asteroid 90 Antiope in Professional-Amateur
Collaboration
Nov
17  Dr. Michael Connelly           The Formation of Binary Stars
Dec 22  Dr. Lee Hoglan                    Night
Myopia
 
2008
Jan 19   Jeff Moore (NASA)                     Pluto
Express Update: Jupiter Encounter
Feb 16  Friedemann Freund (SETI/SJSU)             All those Organics up in the Night
Sky
Mar 22  Dr. Adrian Brown (SETI)                   Latest
Results from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Apr 19-20                                              Auction
May 17Dr. Dana Backman (SETI/Ames)Nearby Stars & debris disks: A Ringside
Seat
to Planet Formation
Jun 21   
Jul 19    John Dillon                                Ancient
Greek Astronomy
Aug 16  Dr. Frank Marchis (UCB)            Binary Asteroids
Sep 13  SJAA members & friends            Photo & equipment night
Oct 11  Dr. Monika Kress (SJSU)            the Virtual Planet Laboratory
Nov 8    Dr. Helen Quinn (SLAC)              The Mystery of the Missing
Antimatter 
Dec 13



      



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