[SJAAboard] Speaker history

Rich N rnapo at znet.com
Sun Jul 20 00:00:23 MDT 2008


Craig and Rob,

I'd asked David for a list of the speakers we have had at our SJAA meetings, in order to
show in yet another way how we are following our club charter to bring the science of
astronomy to the public.

Here in a free and open meeting the public can hear some very heavy hitters in the science
of astronomy.

Rich.


> Thanks very much David!
>
> Rich
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Smith" <areopagus125 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Business list for SJAA board of directors" <sjaaboard at sjaa.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:15 PM
> 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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