MSU Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminars are held on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Room 224 Physics- Astronomy Building on the MSU Campus. Seminar chair for Spring 2000 is Bob Stein, (email stein@pa.msu.edu).
Special accommodations may be requested by calling 353-4540 or 353-5180
14 January 2000
No Seminar
21 January 2000
No Seminar
28 January 2000
No Seminar
04 February 2000
No Seminar
11 February 2000
No Seminar
18 February 2000
Speaker: Douglas Welch
Title: MACHO Variable Star Database Objects
25 February 2000
Speaker: Phil Fischer
Title: Weak Lensing with SDSS Commissioning Data: The Galaxy Mass Correlation Function to 1/h Mpc.
03 March 2000
Speaker: Bob Stein
Title: What Makes the Sun Ring?
10 March 2000
(Spring Break)
16 March 2000 Special Seminar
Speaker: Verne Smith
Title: Chemical Evolution in the Massive Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
17 March 2000
Speaker: Katia Cunha
Title: Abundance of Boron in Young Galactic Stars
24 March 2000
No Seminar
31 March 2000
Speaker: Tinatin Kahniashvili
Title: Large-scale structure formation in MDM models with a cosmological constant
07 April 2000
Speaker: Sydney D'Silva
Title: Tomography of the Sun
14 April 2000
No Seminar
20 April 2000
Special Seminar
Speaker: Brian Sharpee
Title: Cepheids and Variable Stars in the SMC Inner Halo
Special Seminar
Speaker: Dave Bercik
Title: Magneto Convection in a Solar Surface Layer
21 April 2000
Speaker: Bob Williams
Title: Abundance Determinations in Nebulae: Major Discrepancies
28 April 2000
SENIOR THESES
Speaker: Art Domagala
Title: Objects with Power-law Colors
Speaker: Tim Gates
Title: TU UMa, an RR Lyrae Star in a Binary System
Speaker: Jeffrey Mckinney, Jr.
Title: Eclipsing Binary Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Speaker: Kevin Robinson
Title: The Blazhko Effect of the RR Lyrae Stars XZ Cygni
05 May 2000
(Finals Week)
For more information, please contact Amparo Alvarado at aalvarado@pa.msu.edu or Bob Stein at stein@pa.msu.edu.