Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars - Spring 1999
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 1999 is
Susan Simkin, (email simkin@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.
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22 January 1999
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Speaker: Timothy Beers (MSU)
Title: The Nature of the Early Universe from Studies of Metal-Deficient
Stars in the Milky Way
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29 January 1999
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Speaker: Sydney DeSilva (MSU)
Title: Time-Distance Helioseismology
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05 February 1999
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Speaker: Brian Fields (U Il, Urbana)
Title: The X-Files: Galactic Cosmic Ray Nucleosynthesis Revived?
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12 February 1999
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Speaker: Robin Ciardullo (Penn State)
Title: Planetary Nebulie Nuclie - Intergalactic Stars.
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19 February 1999
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Speaker: Hidi Newberg (Fermie Lab)
Title: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Slices of Pi
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26 February 1999
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Speaker: Doug Duncan (Education Secretary for the AAS)
Title: Astronomy Educational Outreach, K-12
Doug has the following request:
"... anyone who might attend
..(please) anwswer the following one question:
What is your goal when it comes to outreach?
email the... answer directly to me:
duncan@oddjob.uchicago.edu."
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05 March 1999
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Speaker: Suzanne Hawley (MSU+)
Title: Informal Readings from a Book in Progress
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12 March 1999
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Speaker: SPRING BREAK
Title: (No SEMINAR)
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19 March 1999
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Speaker: Steve Shore (
Indiana Univ., South Bend)
Title:"The Most Massive Stars at the Ends of Their Lives: The
Luminous Blue Variables"
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26 March 1999
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Speaker: Robert Stein (MSU)
Title:"Realistic Simulations of Solar Surface Convection "
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02 April 1999
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Speaker: Robert Millis (Lowell Obs)
Title: The Kuiper Belt
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09 April 1999
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Speaker: Sumner Starrfield (U of Az)
Title: Hot Flashes from Nova
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16 April 1999
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Speaker: Taft E. Armandroff (NOAO)
Title:Dwarf Spheroidal Companions to M31
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23 April 1999
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Speaker: Jay Frogel (Ohio State)
Title: TBD
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30 April 1999 (Time - TBD)
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Speaker: Eva-Marie Irrgang and Susan Musser
Titles: Imaging with the MSU IR Camera (MS); Spectra of Radio Galaxies (Pract
icum)
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30 April 1999
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Speaker: Undergraduate Students
Title: JIP and Senior Theses
Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars - Spring 19991 page, updated
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