Astronomy Seminars from 2001 - 2002
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| JOINT ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS 
                        TALK Fri. Jan 11 1:00pm Rm 123  | 
Dr. A Gopakumar University of Guelph  | 
Gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries:Probing effects of eccentricity & spin. | 
| PHYSICS TALK Wed. Jan. 16 1:00 pm Rm 123  | 
Dr. Penny King Earth Sciences University of Western Ontario  | 
Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans on Mars | 
| Thurs. Jan. 17 4:00pm Rm 213A  | 
Dr. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario  | 
How does the solar wind interact with the earth's magnetosphere? | 
| Tues. Jan. 22 2:00 pm Rm 123  | 
JOINT PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY 
                        AND EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENTS Dr. Guy Consolmagno, SJ Vatican Observatory Research Group Steward Observatory, University of Arizona  | 
Are Asteroids Fluffy? | 
| Thurs. Feb. 7 4:00 pm Rm 213A  | 
Dr. Takahiro Kudoh University of Western Ontario  | 
Numerical simulation of magnetically 
                        driven jets from accretion disks | 
| Thurs. Mar. 14 3:00 pm Room 137  | 
CAP LECTURE Professor Alison Sills Department of Physics and Astronomy McMaster University  | 
When Stars Collide | 
| Fri. Mar 22 Rm 137 3:00 pm  | 
Dr. John R. Percy University of Toronto  | 
Astronomy Education for the 21st 
                        Century Undergraduate and Graduate students welcome  | 
| Thurs. Apr. 4 4:00 pm Rm 213A  | 
Dr. Michel Fich University of Waterloo  | 
Recycling the Milky Way | 
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 2001 
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| Fri., June 8 - 2:00 pm | Dr. G. Mathys  European Southern Observatory  | 
ESO's Very Large Telescope: the first two years of science operations | 
| Tues., Sept. 11 -  4:00 pm  | 
Dr. Peter Cottrell  University of Canterbury, New Zealand  | 
The Southern African Larger Telescope (SALT) - a condiment for the 21st Century | 
| PHYSICS TALK  Wed., Sept. 26 - 1:00 pm  | 
Dr. J. J. Kavelaars  McMaster University  | 
Tracking the Formation of the Solar System | 
| PHYSICS TALK  Wed., Oct. 10 - 1:00 pm Rm 137  | 
Dr. Virginia Trimble  University of Maryland University of California  | 
Astrophysics faces the millenium | 
| Wed., Oct. 10  7:30 pm  | 
THE ELIZABETH LAIRD LECTURE 
                         Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland University of California  | 
Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe | 
| Thurs., Oct. 11 -   4:00 pm  | 
  Dr. Virginia Trimble University of Maryland Unversity of California  | 
Archaeoastronomy: Past, Present, and Future | 
| PHYSICS TALK  Fri., Oct. 26 - 1:00 pm  | 
Dr. James DiFrancesco  Berkeley (University of California)  | 
Revealing the Earliest Stages of Stellar Formation through Millimeter Interferometry | 
| Thurs., Nov. 8 - 4:00 pm | Dr. Lee Anne Willson  Iowa State University  | 
Miras and the Ultimate Fate of the Earth | 
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 Thurs. Nov. 22  | 
Dr. Patrick Durrell Pennsylvania State University  | 
Intracluster Stars in the Virgo Cluster | 
| Thurs., Nov. 29 -  4:00 pm  | 
Dr. Steve Federman  University of Toledo  | 
Isotope Ratios in Interstellar Space |