[SJAAboard] Speaker history

Rich N rnapo at znet.com
Sat Jul 19 23:46:52 MDT 2008


Thanks very much David!

Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Smith" <areopagus125 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [SJAAboard] Speaker history


> 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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