Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars - Spring 1998
MSU Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars take place in Room 224 of the
Physics-Astronomy Building on the MSU Campus
on Fridays at 4:00 pm. Seminar chair for Spring 1998 is Timothy Beers,
email beers@pa.msu.edu.
Handicap accommodations may be requested by calling 353-4540 one day
prior to each seminar date to ensure sufficient time to make arrangements.
16 January 1998
- Speaker: OPEN
Title:
23 January 1998:
- Speaker: Kris Sellgren, Ohio State University
Title: "ISO Observations of Infrared Emission Features in the ISM"
30 January 1998
- Speaker: OPEN
Title:
06 February 1998
- Speaker: OPEN
Title:
13 February 1998
- Speaker: David Weinberg Ohio State University
Title: "Cosmology with the Lyman-Alpha Forest"
20 February 1998:
- Speaker: Christine Clement, University of Toronto
Title: "Evolution of Horizontal Branch Stars in Globular Cluster; New Approaches"
27 February 1998
- Speaker: OPEN
Title:
06 March 1998
- Speaker: Jeff Kuhn
Title: "Here Comes the Sun -- Adventures in High Altitude Solar Observing"
13 March 1998
- Speaker: NO SPEAKER: SPRING BREAK
Title:
20 March 1998
- Speaker: Karen Bjorkman, University of Toledo
Title: "Evidence for Disks in the Circumstellar Envelopes of Hot Stars"
27 March 1998
- Speaker: David Gray, University of Western Ontario
Title: "51-Pegasi -- Keeper of an Extra-Solar-System Planet or a Wiggley Star?"
03 April 1998
- Speaker: Earl Spillar, University of Wyoming/STARFire
Title: "Adaptive Optics"
10 April 1998
- Speaker: Michael Hamlin, Michigan State University
Title: "TBA"
17 April 1998
- Speaker: Michael West, St. Mary's University
Title: "Formation of Giant Elliptical Galaxies -- New Clues from Globular Clusters"
22 April 1998 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!)
- Speaker: Neill Reid, Caltech
Title: "Hipparcos and the Age of the Milky Way"
01 May 1998
- Speaker: Astronomy Student Talks (Senior Thesis), Michigan State University
Title: "TBA"
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars - Spring 1998 page,
updated 1998.1.14 by Timothy Beers