Astronomy Seminars from 1998 - 1999

DATE/TIME SPEAKER TITLE/Host
1999
Thursday 
January 21 - 
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Gary J. Ferland 
Physics Department 
University of Kentucky
Quasars:  the birth of galaxies
Thursday 
January 28 - 
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Frazer Pearce 
Physics Department 
University of Durham, UK
Cosmological galaxy formation
Thursday 
February 4 - 
3:30 p.m.
Dr. M. West 
St. Mary's University
 Galaxy Construction and Destruction 
 
Thursday 
March 18 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Naoki Itoh 
Department of Physics 
Sophia University, Japan
Thursday, 
April 1 - 
3:30 p.m.
Dr. John Lester 
Erindale College, U. of Toronto
1998
Tuesday 
October 13
Dr. Charles Curry, Visiting Scientist 
UWO
Summary of CITA meeting on Gravitational Collapse Leading to Star Formation
Thursday 
November 12 - 3:30 p.m.
Dr. A. Aaron Sigut 
UWO
Precise Stellar Abundances for Oxygen and Neon and The Detection of Weak Stellar Winds
Thursday 
November 26 - 3:30 p.m.
Dr. Ludovic van Waerbeke 
Canadian Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics
Gravitational lensing as a probe of the dark side of the universe.