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June |
Prof. Edward Churchwell
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"ALMA: The Largest, Most Sensitive Millimeterwave Telescope Ever Conceived." |
May |
Prof. Robert Blick
Deptartment of Electrical Engineering, UW-Madison |
"Mechanics on the Nano-scale." |
April |
Dr. Lisa Crause
South African Astrophysical Observatory, Cape Town |
"Adventures in Building Really Big Telescopes: The Southern African Large Telescope." |
March |
Matt Povich
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"New WHIRC for a 3.5-meter Telescope: The WIYN High-resolution InfreRed Camera." |
February |
Prof. Sebastian Heinz
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Circinus X-1: An Ambitious Neutron Star that Wants to Look Like a Black Hole." |
January |
Prof. Jonathan Foley
Director, UW Center for Sustainability and the Environment |
"Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future." |
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November |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science |
"Mediocrity or Simplicity? A Brief History of Terrestrial Ideas about Extraterrestrial Life." |
October |
Dr. Eric Hooper
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Not all that Glitters is Gold; Some who Wander are Lost: A Tale of a Curious Astronomer." |
September |
Dr. Ed Mierkiewiczc
Department of Physics, UW-Madison |
"Escaping Earth: The Travelogue of a Hydrogen Atom." |
August |
Prof. Snezana Stanimirovic
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"GoldenEye in Action: Mapping the Galaxy with GALFA." |
July |
Dr. Peter Frinchaboy
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Galactic Cannibalism: How the Milky Way is Not Nice to Its Neighbors." |
June |
Dr. Miller Goss
Director, Very Large Array, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, N.M. |
"A Woman, A War, and Radar: Early Radio Astronomy in Australia." |
May |
Dr. Marsha Wolf
Deptartment of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Quasars, Black Holes, and Galaxies: Which Comes First?" |
April |
Thomas Nelson
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"RS Ophiuchi and Recurrent Novae: Adventures in Stellar Old Age." |
March |
Dr. Larry Sromovsky
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Unveiling Uranus: New Results from Ground and Space." |
February |
Prof. Bob Benjamin
UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison |
"GLIMPSE Gets to the Heart of the Galaxy." |
January |
Dr. Jim Lattis
Director, UW Space Place |
"Top 10 Astronomy Stories of 2006." |
| 2006 |
December |
Dr. John Everett
Departments of Physics and Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Supermassive Black Holes: Ubiquitous Monsters?" |
November |
Amanda Kepley
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"The Radio Universe." |
October |
Art Schmaltz
Linguist and Sculptor |
"The Moon and the Mind." |
September |
Prof. Richard Kron
Department of Astronomy, University of Chicago and Director of the Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI |
"Casting a Wide Net: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey." |
August |
Peter Susalla
Department of the History of Science, UW-Madison |
"Double Stars to the Electric Eye: Washburn Observatory, 1881-1958." |
July |
Dr. Eric Burgh
Space Astronomy Laboratory, UW-Madison |
"Taking Wisconsin Astronomy to South Africa." |
June |
Prof. Ron Reynolds
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"How Does Our Galaxy Work?" |
May |
Rose Pertzborn
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Juno: NASA's Next New Frontiers Program Investigation." |
April |
Prof. Patricia Lowe
Deptartment of Life Sciences Communication, UW-Madison |
"One Sky, Two Views: Expanding the Cultural Universe." |
March |
Dr. Howard Berger
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison |
"Satellites, Hurricanes, and the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season." |
February |
Dr. Xavier Siemens
Department of Physics, UW-Milwaukee |
"Gravitational Waves: A New Observational Window." |
January |
Prof. David Houghton
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison |
"Global Climate Change: Fiction, Facts, Uncertainties, Challenges, & Impacts." |
| 2005 |
December |
Dr. Andrew Fox
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Beyond Hubble: The Future of Astronomy in Space." |
November |
Prof. Amy Barger
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"SALT of the Universe: Spicing up Research with a Big Telescope." |
October |
Prof. Robert Bless
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"The First Space Observatory: OAO-2 and its Wisconsin Roots." |
September |
Prof. Bob Benjamin
UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison |
"A Bird's-Eye View of our Milky Way Galaxy: New Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope." |
May |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science, UW-Madison |
"What Are the Heavens Made Of? Early Theories of Celestial Matter." |
April |
Dr. David Mead
Lucigen Corp. |
"Life in Boiling Thermal Pools: One Niche in the Universe of Biological Possibilities." |
March |
Dr. David Grinspoon
Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute |
"How Lonely is Our Planet? New Results in the Quest for Alien Life." |
February |
Dr. Marina Orio
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison; Italian National Institute of Astrophysics at Torino |
"The Most Energetic Explosions in the Universe: Gamma-ray Bursters." |
January |
Dr. Jim Lattis
Director, UW Space Place |
"Cassini-Huygens at Saturn." |
| 2004 |
December |
Dr. Barb Whitney
Space Science Institute |
"A New View of the Galaxy with GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire)." |
November |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science, UW-Madison |
"God's Geometer: Kepler's Quest for the Rational Foundations of the Cosmos." |
October |
Dr. Jim Lattis
Director, UW-Space Place |
"The Last Total Lunar Eclipse (at least, for a couple of years)." |
September |
Dr. Jim Reardon
Wonders of Physics, Department of Physics, UW-Madison |
"The Wonders of Plasma." |
August |
Dennison Love
Federal Aviation Administration |
"To the Moon and Back." |
July |
Andrew Bangert
Solar Power Specialist |
"New Energy for a New Millenium: Solar." |
June |
Dr. Anne Pryor
Folk Arts Education Coordinator, Wisconsin Arts Board |
"Wisconsin Weather Stories." |
May |
Art Schmaltz
Madison artist, linguist, and thinker |
"Is the Universe Elegant? The Role of Metaphor in Cosmology." |
April |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science, UW-Madison |
"'Sun, Stand Thou Still': The Case of Galileo and the Evidence for a Moving Earth." |
March |
Jeff Cherwinka
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Building IceCube, a Neutrino Telescope at the South Pole." |
February |
Prof. Chris Anderson
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Meridiane: Solar Observatories in Early Modern Italy." |
January |
Dr. Jim Lattis
Director, UW Space Place |
"Working on Mars: Current and Upcoming Exploration." |
| 2003 |
December |
Dr. Margaret Mooney
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"How Satellites Monitor the Global Environment." |
November |
Dr. Sanjay Limaye
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Neptune and Mars." |
October |
Tony Wendricks
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Joe Lunchbox goes to Antarctica." |
September |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science, UW-Madison. |
"Copernicus: What Did He Do, and Why Did He Do It?" |
August |
Prof. Lawrence Krauss
Case Western Reserve University. |
"The Physics of Star Trek." |
July |
Scott Sullivan
Author of Virtual Apollo |
"Virtual Apollo: Reconstructing the Legendary Spacecraft." |
June |
Dr. Rico Ignace
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Understanding the Universe." |
May |
Prof. Blair Savage
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison. |
"Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope." |
April |
Prof. Eric Wilcots
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Whither the Universe? Dark Matter, Dark Energy, the Big Bang, & the Fate of the Universe." |
March |
Dr. Tim Schmit
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Going for Knowledge: GOES Geosynchronus Satellites Survey the Earth." |
February |
Dr. Keivan Stassun
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison. |
"A Decade of Discovery with Hubble Space Telescope: Extending Our Understanding of Forces That Shape the Universe." |
January |
Prof. Matt Bershady
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"More Dynamic Than We Thought: New Views of Galaxies and Their Evolution." |
| 2002 |
December |
Dr. Peter Sobol
Historian of Science, UW-Madison. |
"Are We Here Because We're Here? The Anthropic Principle and Its role in the History of Cosmology." |
October |
Dr. Elaine Prins
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison |
"Fighting Forest Fires from Space." |
Special
Presentation
October 18 |
Prof. John Mathis
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"Our Galaxy Revealed: Infrared from Space." |
September |
Dr. Bob Benjamin
Department of Physics, UW-Madison |
"Discovered: A Mysterious Stellar Contrail in Interstellar Space?" |
| April |
Dr. Keivan Stassun
Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison |
"The Mysteries of Spinning Stars." |
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