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Arecibo Colloquium Schedule - Archive

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998

Year 2007 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Apr 10	Dr. Mallory Roberts, Eureka Scientific	What EGRET Saw: Chasing the Rabbit Through the Looking GLAST
Apr 12	Dr. Jonathan Friedman, Arecibo Observatory	Lidar Measurements of Atmospheric State Parameters in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
May 22	Prof. Barton R. Friedman, Cleveland State University (retired)	Lincoln and the Ongoing War of Words: Contesting the Conservative High Ground
Jan 23	Dr. Guido Mueller, University of Florida	Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe [abstract]
Jan 26	Sylvana Marten, University of Maryland	The Birds, the Bats, and the Bees: Pollination Biology of Caribbean Gesneriads
Feb 15	Dr. Tim Hankins, NAIC and New Mexico Tech	The Crab Nebula Pulsar: Its Giant Pulses [abstract]
Feb 16	Dr. Nissim Kanekar, Jansky Fellow, NRAO	Do the Fundamental Constants Change with Time? [abstract]

Year 2006 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb 6	Dr. Phil D. Nicholson, Cornell University	Recent Cassini Observations of Saturn and its Satellites
Feb 13	Dr. Donald B. Campbell, Cornell University	New Ways to View the Moon: Recent Arecibo-GBT Radar Observations
Feb 17	Dr. Diego Janches, CoRA division/ NWRA	ISR Facility at the Arecibo Geomagnetic Conjugate Point
Feb 20 & 22	Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Cornell University	The First Year of ALFALFA (A2010): Who, What, When, Where, How and Why [abstract]
Feb 27	Dr. Jim LaBelle, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College	High-resolution Measurements of Naturally Occurring HF Waves in the Auroral Region [abstract]
Mar 10	Dr. Richard Branham, Head of Dept. of Geomatics, IANIGLA-CRICYT, Argentina	Calculating Kinematical Parameters and the Velocity Ellipsoid for O-B5 and M Giants [abstract]
Mar 10	Dr. Kurt Gibble, Physics Dept., Penn State	Atomic Clocks, How They Work and Why We Need Them [abstract]
Mar 13	Dr. David R. Smith, MERLAB, P.C.	Current Status of the Large Millimeter-wave Telescope (LMT)
Apr 7	Arvid Åhrberg, Umeå University, Sweden	Short Baseline Interferometry
Apr 10	Jagadheep Pandian, Cornell University	The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey [abstract]
Apr 12	Dr. Christiano Garnett, Inst. Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, SP, Brazil	Cosmic Noise Absorption as a Source of Ionospheric Research [abstract]
Apr 13	Dr. Kevin A. Douglas, Univ. of California, Berkeley	A Mixed Mofongo of My Arecibo-Related Activities [abstract]
Apr 20	Dr. John D. Mathews, Director CSSL, Penn State Univ.	Informal talk: The 430 MHz Yagi/Line Feed Interferometer
Apr 20	Dr. Hugo Levato, Director of Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito and Advisor to the Secretary of Science and Technology	Science in Argentina
Apr 24	Dr. Erik M. Muller, ATNF	The Magellanic System: A Review of the Latest Research [abstract]
May 18	Dr. Luca Cortese, Cardiff Univ.	Galaxy Preprocessing in the Local Universe: A Starbursting Group Infalling into A1367 [abstract]
May 22	Dr. Bo Peng and the FAST team, National Astronomical Observatories, China	The Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)
Jun 1	Dr. Dan Werthimer, Univ. of California, Berkeley	IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? SETI@home and Public Participation Distributed Computing [abstract]
Jun 2	Patrick Taylor, Cornell Univ.	The Shape and Spin State of Near Earth Asteroid 54509 (2000 PH5) [abstract]
Jun 5	Dr. Dan Werthimer, Univ. of California, Berkeley	High Performance Radio Astronomy Signal Processing [abstract]
Jun 8	German Cortes, Cornell Univ.	Beyond ALFA, Instrumentation Development for Arecibo
Jun 8	Eliena Nossa, Cornell Univ.	The Antenna Design of the Focal Phase Array
Jun 9	Joe Greene, Arecibo Obs.	Arecibo Transmitters
Jun 14	Ellen Howell, Arecibo Obs.	Geology of Puerto Rico
Jun 16	Paulo Freire, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Pulsar Astronomy
Jun 21	Jon Hagen, Arecibo Obs.	Radio Astronomy Receivers -I
Jun 22	Jon Hagen, Arecibo Obs.	Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy
Jun 23	Chris Salter, Arecibo Obs.	The Radio Sky
Jun 27	Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Univ. of Oxford	2006 GORDON LECTURE: Reflections on the Discovery of Pulsars
Jun 29	Dr. Juan Carlos Morales, Turabo University	Dynamic Properties and Seismic Response of the Cable Structures and Towers of the Arecibo Observatory
Jun 29	Murray Lewis, Arecibo Obs.	Time-varying OH/IR Stars
Jul 6	Ganesh Rajagopalan, Arecibo Obs.	Radio Astronomy Receivers - II
Jul 7	Xinzhao Chu, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder	Laser Remote Sensing Overview
Jul 12	Mikael Lerner, Arecibo Obs.	Time and Coordinate Systems
Jul 13	Tamara Hall, Arecibo Obs.	High Speed Digital Design
Jul 14	Mike Nolan, Arecibo Obs.	TBD
Jul 17	Tapasi Ghosh, Arecibo Obs.	Active Galactic Nuclei
Jul 17	Mike Nolan, Arecibo Obs.	Asteroids
Jul 19	Jonathan Friedman, Arecibo Obs.	The Mesospheric Refrigerator
Jul 20	Steven Gibson, Arecibo Obs.	GALFA and the Galactic Interstellar Medium
Jul 21	Dr. Chris Magri, Univ. of Maine at Farmington	Radar Observations and a Physical Model of Asteroid 1580 Betulia [abstract]
Jul 26	Mike Sulzer, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Radar - I
Jul 27	Mike Sulzer, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Radar - II
Jul 27	Isobel Ojalvo	Arecibo Observatory and the National Virtual Observatory
Jul 31	Knicole Colon	A Study of the Massive Star-Forming Region IRAS 19111+1048
Jul 31	Edvier Cabassa	Observations of Specular, Non-specular, and Head Echoes Meteors with the VHF Coqui2 Radar
Aug 1	Don Campbell, Cornell Univ.	The Lunar South Pole and NASA's Lunar Exploration Initiative
Aug 1	Melissa Rivera	Electric Field Perturbations at Equatorial Latitudes Produced by Geomagnetic Substorms
Aug 2	Daniel Rucker	Development of a FPGA Based Radar Controller
Aug 2	Heather Hanson	Coordinated Radar and Spectral Data of 105 Artemis
Aug 3	Kevin Graf	Amplifier Stability as a Limiting Factor in Receiver Sensitivity
Aug 3	Heidi Brooks	Mass Determination from Orbits of Binary Asteroids
Aug 4	Brandon Taylor	Subauroral Polarization Streams: Storm Effects and Statistics
Aug 7	David Bowen	Engineering Solutions to Remote Instrument Control using LabVIEW and JAVA
Aug 9	Gloria Isidro, UPR-Rio Piedras	Arecibo Observatory for All
Aug 10	Jonathan Fentzke	K Lidar Meteor Observations Using Dual Optical Receivers at the Arecibo Observatory
Aug 10	Amal Chandran	Modeling the Meteoric Mass Deposition in the Upper Atmosphere
Aug 14	Clinton Mielke	Numerical Applications of Pulsars - Theoretical Models, Ephemeris Determination
Aug 15	Ximena Fernandez	Understanding (Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies: Arecibo Observations of HI and OH Spectral Lines
Aug 15	Sonia Buckley	Calibration of the All-sky Imager
Sep 18	Dr. Michael Garrett, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)	Radio Astronomy on the Edge -- Cosmic Lenses, Faint Radio Sources, and Wide-field VLBI Imaging
Sep 19	Dr. Sandra Biedron, Argonne National Lab	Coherent Radiators Including Short-wavelength, High-gain, Single-pass, Free-electron Lasers and Associated Exotic Schemes
Sep 22	Dr. Robert Kerr, NSF	Goldilocks and the Three Terrestrial Escape Fluxes
Sep 26	Dr. B.G. Andersson, JHU	Interstellar Magnetic Fields from Optical Polarimetry - Hopes and Despairs
Sep 29	Alfredo Santoni (Arecibo Obs.), Aidalys Maldonado, Jorge Otero, Jesus Pena (Polytechnic Univ. of Puerto Rico, PUPR, Hato Rey)	The 430 MHz Transmitter New Crowbar Driver System
Oct 19	Dr. Robert H. Chang, Director, National Center for Teaching of Nanoscience and Engineering, Northwestern University	Photonic crystals
Oct 19	Dr. John R. Jungck, Co-Founder of Bio-QUEST and a Specialist in Mathematical Molecular Evolution, Beloit College	Bringing Mathematics and Computer Science into the Biology Curriculum
Oct 30	Dr. Paulo C.C. Freire, Arecibo Obs.	PSR J1738+0333: A Superb Gravitational Laboratory [abstract]
Nov 14	Dr. Lance Benner, Altadena, CA	Birds of Puerto Rico

Year 2005 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Feb 15	Dr. Gordon Pettengill, MIT	2005 GORDON LECTURE: Exploring the martian clouds by laser
Feb 17	Dr. William H. Edmondson, School of Computer Science, Univ. of Birmingham	Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences: Refining the Enterprise [abstract]
Feb 17	Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Cornell Univ.	Progress report on activities of the Radio, Millimeter and Submillimeter Planning Group (RMSPG) [abstract]
Feb 23	Dr. Philip R. Goode, New Jersey Inst. of Technology	Big Bear Solar Observatory
Feb 28	Dr. Lance Benner, Altadena, CA	Owls of Los Angeles County: Their Status and Distribution
Mar 1	Dan Holdsworth, Photoartist, London	The Arecibo Telescope as Photo Art [abstract]
Mar 4	Dr. Judith Irwin, Dept. of Physics, Queen's Univ., Canada	The Disk-Halo Connection in Galaxies [abstract]
Mar 7	Dr. Amy Lovell	New results in radio observations of comets and asteroids [abstract]
Mar 24	Dr. Steven Gibson, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Calgary	Dark Hydrogen and the Cold Interstellar Medium [abstract]
Apr 18	Dr. Xinzhao Chu, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Arecibo Obs.	"Pole-To-Pole" LIDAR "Expedition" for Middle Atmosphere Study [abstract]
Apr 21	Dr. Paulo C.C. Freire, Arecibo Obs.	24 new millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5 [abstract]
Apr 29	Dr. Meyer Nahon, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill Univ.	Modeling Arecibo's Multi-Tethered Feed Subsystem [abstract]
May 5	Dr. Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell Univ.	The ALFALFA Extragalactic Legacy Survey: Description and Preliminary Results [abstract]
May 19	Dr. Diego Janches, CoRA division/ NWRA	Modeling an accurate micrometeor input function into the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere using radar measurements [abstract]
May 20	Dr. Snezana Stanimirovic, UC Berkeley	Teeny-weeny cold HI clouds in the diffuse ISM [abstract]
May 26	Dr. N. Udaya Shankar, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Raman Research Inst., Bangalore, India	Preloaded Parabolic Dish Antennas: Design and Prospects [abstract]
May 27	Dr. N. Udaya Shankar, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Raman Research Inst., Bangalore, India	Continuum Imaging with the Mauritius Telescope
Jun 8	Chris Salter, Arecibo Obs.	The Radio Sky
Jun 9	Ganesh Rajagopalan, Arecibo Obs.	Radio Receivers
Jun 14	Tapasi Ghosh, Arecibo Obs.	Active Galactic Nuclei
Jun 15	Paulo Freire, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Pulsar Astronomy
Jun 17	Dr. Julio Urbina, University of Arkansas	Digital Receiver Implementation at the Arecibo Observatory: System Design and Capabilities [abstract]
Jun 20	Jonathan Friedman, Arecibo Obs.	The Mesospheric Refrigerator [abstract]
Jun 21	Mike Nolan, Arecibo Obs.	Asteroids
Jun 22	Murray Lewis, Arecibo Obs.	OH Masers in the Circumstellar Shells of late Type Stars
June 22	Marco Andre Remy, Unicamp - University of Campinas, Brazil	Microwave System Design for LNLS Synchrotron and INPE Gravitational Wave Detector
June 28	John Harmon, Arecibo Obs.	Planetary Radar
Jul 1	Ellen Howell, Arecibo Obs.	Geology of Puerto Rico
Jul 1	Dr. Mikael Lerner, Arecibo Obs.	Presentation of CIMA version 2.0 [abstract]
Jul 5	Avinash Deshpande, Arecibo Obs.	Signal Processing
Jul 6	Emmanuel Momjian, Arecibo Obs.	Interferometry and Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy
Jul 7	Dr. Claudio Brunini, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina	La Plata Ionospheric Model after 10 years of developments [abstract]
Jul 8	Hien Vo, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Space Weather
Jul 18	Mike Sulzer, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Radar - I
Jul 19	Mike Sulzer, Arecibo Obs.	Introduction to Incoherent Scatter Radar - II
Jul 26	Diego Janches	Meteors
Jul 28	Sara Scoles	Physical Modeling of Near-Earth Asteroid 2005 EU2
Jul 28	Anthony Salvagno	A Study of OH/IR Stars
Aug 2	Rhea George	Retrieving Meteor Information from Incoherent Scatter Data
Aug 2	Fonda Day	A Search for LSB Galaxies and the Impact of Adding Arecibo to VLBA Observations
Aug 5	Evan Anzalone	Cryogenic Amplifier Noise Characterization under Labview Environment
Aug 5	Igneris Franco	Correlation Studies of Sporadic E Layer Dual Beam Height Differences and F Region Ion Drifts
Aug 8	Adam Mott	High Precision Timing of the Binary Pulsar 1741+1351
Aug 9	Israel Gonzalez	Testbed For Daytime LIDAR
Aug 9	Alex Rivera	LIDAR Optical Configuration for Tropospheric Aerosol Measurements in a Multiangle Profile
Aug 9	Michael Busch, Caltech	Radar and Optical Observations and Physical Modeling of Near-Earth Asteroid 10115 (1992 SK) [abstract]
Aug 11	Casey Dreier	Getting Into Shape: A Physical Model of the Near-Earth Asteroid 1988XB
Aug 11	Laura Kushner	A 21-cm Search for Low-z Damped Ly-alpha Systems towards Compact Radio Sources
Aug 12	Dr. Avinash Deshpande, Arecibo Obs.	Evidence for Collimated Particle Beams from Pulsars [abstract]
Aug 19	Talia Kohen	Long-term Meridional Neutral Winds from Arecibo ISR and Comparison with FPI Winds
Aug 31	Dr. Jonathan Friedman, Arecibo Obs.	The Faraday Anomalous Dispersion Optical Filter (or E&M 600 in action) [abstract]
Sep 9	Iain Mansfield	Gamma Ray Bursts and Scintillations
Sep 16	Dr. Shikha Raizada, Arecibo Obs.	The Effect of Ice Particles on the Mesospheric Potassium Layer at High Latitudes [abstract]
Sep 22	Dr. Jose' Navarro, Norcontrol IT	Coastal Surveillance Radars -- A Radioastronomer's Perspective [abstract]
Oct 20	Dr. Christopher M. Springob, Naval Research Lab	Cosmological Applications of the Cornell HI Archive [abstract]

Year 2004 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 13	Wim van Driel, Paris Observatory	Keeping our Windows on the Universe Clean - or - the Joys of Spectrum Management
Dec 10	Charles Osborne, Pisgah Astronomical Research Inst.	Radio Astronomy and Educational Opportunities at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
Dec 2	Venkataraman Sivakumar, Universite de La Reunion, France	Middle atmospheric temperature structure and its dynamics
Dec 1	Robert Minchin, Cardiff Univ.	HI clouds in the Virgo Cluster
Nov 18	Dr. Jim Bell, Cornell Univ.	Scientific Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Nov 16	Dr. Lance Benner, JPL Pasadena	Recent radar imaging of near-Earth asteroids
Nov 12	Robbie Auld, Cardiff Univ.	HI Morphology and Star formation in Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies
Nov 4	Cord Fricke-Begemann, Leibnitz Inst. for Atm. Phys., Germany	Temperature structure and variations of the mesopause region: K-lidar results from different latitudes
Oct 27	Andrea Possenti, Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari	Further Exotic Objects in the Millisecond Pulsar Zoo
Sep 24	Kristine Spekkens, Cornell Univ.	All galaxies great and small: testing cold dark matter with spiral galaxy dynamics
Sep 10	P.C.C. Friere, NAIC	News from the amazing Double Pulsar PSR J0737-3039
Aug 13	Megan DeCesar, Pennsylvannia State Univ.	Constraining the IR and NIR Colors of OH/IR Mimics
Aug 13	Melissa Rice, Wellesley College	Radar Imaging of Mercury
Aug 12	Regina Flores, Columbia Univ.	Multifrequency Study of Molecular Transitions toward W49A
Aug 12	Karles Saucedo-Mcquade, Oberlin College	HI observations of HVC's
Aug 11	Jabran Zahid, Univ. of California Berkeley	CO observations of a z=10.0 galaxy
Aug 10	Megan DeCesar, Jose Casillas	A Continuing Search for OH/IR Stars
Aug 3	Laura Kinnaman Wittenberg, Univ. Ohio	Simulating Continuum and Recombination Line Emission from HII Regions
Aug 2	Laura Kinnaman Wittenberg, Karles Saucedo-Mcquade, Megan DeCesar, Melissa Rice, and Jabran Zahid	HI Absorption in Abell 2390
Jul 30	Yang Yang, Miami Univ.-Ohio	Processing Arecibo ISR Data for Submission to TIMED Satellite Program Database
Jul 28	Jose Casillas & Giselle Miranda (Univ. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez), Yang Yang (Miami Univ.-Ohio), Drew Turner (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.)	Processing Arecibo World Day Data and Data Analysis with Multiple Instruments
Jul 21	Drew Turner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.	Calculating Electron Density using Dual Frequency GPS
Jul 21	Jan Ulrich / University of Texas	Computing on Linux Clusters
Jun 24	Jonathan Friedman / AO - NAIC	Lidar II
Jun 23	Shikha Raizada / AO - NAIC	Lidar I
Jun 22	Chris Salter / AO - NAIC	The radio sky
Jun 21	Emmanuel Momjian / AO - NAIC	Interferometry in RA
Jun 18	Mike Sulzer / AO - NAIC	Incoherent Scatter II
Jun 17	Mike Sulzer / AO - NAIC	Incoherent Scatter I
Jun 16	Lisa Wray / AO - NAIC	Electronics and Receivers
Jun 15	Avinash Deshpande / AO - NAIC	Signal Processing
Jun 14	Tapasi Ghosh / AO - NAIC	Active Galaxies
Jun 11	Maura McLaughlin / Jodrell Bank Observatory	The Double Pulsar
Jun 9	Venkataraman Radhakrishnan / Raman Research Institute	The Physics of Sailing Craft
Jun 9	Paulo Freire / AO - NAIC	Pulsars
Jun 8	Ellen Howell / AO - NAIC	Geology of Puerto Rico
Jun 3	Don Campbell / Cornell University	Radar Astronomy
May 28	Vladislav Kondratiev / Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia	Giant pulses as a key to understanding of pulsar physics
May 25	Chris Salter / AO - NAIC	Magnetic Fields and Ionized Gas in the Inner Galaxy: An Outer Scale for Turbulence and the Possible Role of HII Regions.
May 21	Philipp Kronberg / Univ. of Toronto	What the largest radio galaxies are telling us, and why it may have important astrophysical consequences
May 14	Chistopher Watts / New Mexico Tech	Heating the Solar Corona: A hot topic in plasma astrophysics
Apr 23	Vasyl Belyey / Univ. of Tromsø	Signal Processing at the EISCAT Svalbard Radar
Apr 16	Steve Torchinsky / AO-NAIC	On the Detectability of the Cosmic Dark Ages: 21-cm Lines from Minihalos
Apr 6	Kenneth Woodcock / U of East Anglia	The role of Fe+ chemistry in the lifetime of sporadic E layers
Apr 6	Mansie Iyer / FIU	Using Dark Matter to Identify Fossil Dwarf Galaxies
Apr 5	Barbara Catinella / CU, AO-NAIC	Internal Kinematics of Disk Galaxies in the Local Universe
Apr 1	Yolanda Gomez / Centro de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica, UNAM, Mexico	Water maser emission toward planetary nebulae
Mar 19	Dr. Andrea Lommen / Franklin & Marshall College	Detecting Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars
Mar 15	Thushara Pillai / Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie	Ammonia towards Infrared Dark Clouds
Mar 12	Dr. Robert Minchin / School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University	The cosmological significance of Low Surface Brightness galaxies - results from a deep HI line survey
Feb 24	Dr. C. Gardner / U. Illinois	Mau-Malt and the TRIO Campaigns
Feb 24	Dr. X. Chu / U. Illinois	Mesopause-region Temperature Observations
Feb 13	Dr. Ellen Howell / AO	Direct Detection of the Yarkovsky Effect by Radar Ranging to Asteriod 6489 Golevka
Jan 28	Dr. Karen O'neil / GBT	Finding the baryons - massive LSB galaxies out to z=0.1
Jan 19	Dr. Tapasi Ghosh / AO	The use of OH 'main' lines to constrain the variation of fundamental constants
Jan 12	Dr. Dj. Pisano / ATNF	HI in loose groups

Year 2003 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Jul 16	Randy Kimble / Goddard Spaceflight Center / NASA	The Wide Field Camera 3: A new imager for the Hubble Space Telescope
Jun 9	David Nice / Princeton University	Binary Pulsar Timing and Recent Measurements of Neutron Star Masses
May 22	Paul Goldsmith / Cornell University	Inappropriate Probes of Molecular Clouds
May 14	Steve Torchinsky / Canadian Space Agency	The Odin satellite: design, integration, test, and some results
May 13	Ramachandran / Berkeley University	Dynamical Properties of Polarization in Pulsar Radiation
May 8	Leslie Sage / University of Maryland	How to publish a paper in Nature
Apr 3	Avinash Deshpande / Arecibo Observatory	Vela, its X-ray nebula and the polarization of the pulsar radiation
Mar 18	Ed Salpeter / Cornell University	Heavy Elements in the Galaxy and Tuberculosis in the USA
Feb 21	Rob Wilson / AO-NAIC & Penn State Univ.	Recent Observations of Atomic Layer Enhancements and Temperatures with the Arecibo Potassium Lidar
Feb 20	Josef HÃ¶ffner / Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics, KÃ¼hlungsborn, Germany	Observations of NLCs, temperatures and PMSEs at Svalbard, 78° N [abstract]
Feb 6	Emmanuel Momjian / NRAO	Sensitive VLBI continuum and HI absorption observations of interacting/merging galaxies
Jan 14	A. R. Taylor / University of Calgary	The International Galactic Plane Survey

Year 2002 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 2	Paul Jones / ATNF, Australia	The search for biomolecules in Sagittarius B2 with the Australia Telescope
Dec 3	Maria Hunt / Univ. of New South Walse	Massive Star Formation from Colliding Molecular Clouds: The case for RCW 36 and RCW 57
Nov 19	Geoff Wright / Univ. of Sussex, UK	Feedback Model for Radio Pulsars
Nov 18	Joanna Rankin / Univ. of Vermont	Sub-beam Circulation and the Physics of Pulsar Emission
Nov 14	Marshall Cohen / Caltech	101 Superluminal Sources
Nov 13	Harold Ewen / UMass Amherst	Radio Telescopes I've Known
Nov 7	Carl Heiles / UC Berkeley	The Warm and Cold Neutral Media of the Galaxy
Nov 4	Dan Werthimer / UC Berkeley	Searching For ET With Four Million Collaborators: SETI@home, SERENDIP, SEVENDIP, SPOCK and Astropulse
Oct 29	Diego Janches / Penn State, AO	Diego's Turn
Oct 25	John Mathews / Penn State, Diego Janches / Penn State, AO	Reply
Oct 24	Ulf von Zahn / Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics	Remarks on the total meteoritic mass flux into the Earth's Atmosphere
Oct 24	Erik Muller / ATNF	An analysis of the HI in the Magellanic Bridge
Oct 17	Paulo Freire	Recent results on pulsars presented in Crete
Aug 12	Andrew Rivkin	Water on Asteroids
Aug 7	Stephanie Morris	A Web-based GUI for the Wind Monitor
Aug 1	Martha Boyer	Study of the Pulsar Emission Region at Multiple Frequencies
Aug 1	Ingrid Pla-Rodriguez	The New and Improved World of SAS
Aug 1	Andrew Helton	All-Stokes Survey of OH Masers in Star Forming Regions: Search for Possible Zeeman Pairs
Jul 31	Rebecca Wilcox	HI spectral line observations of galaxies
Jul 31	Samantha Stevenson	HI Evolution Studies of IR-Selected AGN
Jul 31	Martin Rodgers	Introduction to Sporadic E's and their morphology
Jul 29	Laura Chomiuk	Mapping Supernova Remnant G42.8+0.6
Jul 29	Julia Deneva	Determination of the orbital parameters of binary pulsars: Elliptical case
Jul 24	Danielle Moser	Interplanetary Dust Studies Using the UHF Dual Beam radar
Jul 23	Summer Students	Hands-on project presentations
Jul 23	Don Campbell / NAIC/Cornell	Solar System Studies with Radar
Jul 18	Daniel Kao	Lidar Configuration and Observations of Raman Scatter from N2 and H2O
Jul 18	Yervant Terzian / Cornell University	The Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope
Jul 16	Karen O'Neil / Arecibo Observatory	Faint Fuzzy Stuff - What are LSB Galaxies and Why Would Anyone Study Them?
Jul 15	Diego Janches / Arecibo Observatory	The Planet Earth: A Large Dust Sweeper
Jul 12	Joe Burns / Cornell University	Irregular Satellites: Discoveries, Orbits and Origins
Jul 10	Ellen Howell / Arecibo Observatory	Geology of Puerto Rico
Jul 11	Riccardo Giovanelli / Cornell University	Scaling Relations of Spiral galaxies and their Application to Cosmology
Jul 9	Mike Noan / Arecibo Observatory	Asteroids
Jul 8	Victor Migenes / University of Guanajuato	What about OH Megamasers?
Jul 5	Murray Lewis / Arecibo Observatory	Spectral Line Observations of OH/IR Stars
Jul 2	Jonathan Friedman / Arecibo Observatory	Lidar Studies of the Middle Atmosphere
Jun 28	Ellen Howell / Arecibo Observatory	Reducing Arecibo Spectral Line Data Using Cometary OH as an Example
Jun 27	Fernanda S. Tavares / University of Alaska	Energy Deposition in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere by Lightning Generated Electric Fields
Jun 25	Mike Sulzer / Arecibo Observatory	The Ionosphere and Incoherent Scatter Radar
Jun 21	Paulo Freire / Arecibo Observatory	Introduction to Radio Pulsars
Jun 18	Daniel Altschuler /Arecibo Observatory	The Arecibo Observatory
Jun 11	Jagadheep Pandian / Cornell University	Methanol Masers: Tracers of Star Formation
Jun 11	Dan Stinebring / Oberlin College	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Pulsar
Jun 7	Lisa Wray / Arecibo Observatory	Introduction to Radio Astronomy for mer Students
Jun 6	Hendrik Linz, Astro. Inst. & Univ. Observatory Jena/ UPR	The massive star-forming region G9.62+0.19 under the looking glass - Radio and infrared observations
May 30	Dejan Urosevic / Belgrade Univ.	The Updated Sigma-D Relations for Supernova Remnants
May 29	Ellen Howell / Arecibo Observatory	Journal Club: The formation of Uranus and Neptune among Jupiter and Saturn
May 23	German Cortes / Cornell Univ.	Arecibo Gregorian: Feed Analysis and Design
May 17	Rachel Mastrapa, Univ. of Arizona	Kuiper Belt Objects
May 15	Paul Goldsmith, Arecibo NAIC/Cornell	Results from the SWAS Satellite - The Abundance of Molecular Oxygen in Rho Ophiuchi
May 9	Dunc Lorimer, Jodrell Bank	Searching for Radio Pulsars in New Targets and Old Data Sets
May 8	Don Campbell, Cornell/NAIC	Results from the Arecibo radar observations of Titan
May 2	Tapasi Ghosh, Arecibo Observatory	Journal Club: Evidence for Synchrotron Bubbles from GRS 1915+105
Apr 11	Alberto Bolatto, UC Berkeley	Dwarf Galaxies at High Resolution: Probing Cosmology and Astrophysics with Molecular Gas
Apr 4	Willem Baan (ASTRON/NFRA)	LOFAR - the first of the new generation
Apr 3	Jonas Hedin	Design and construction of a Potassium Faraday filter for Potassium lidar system daytime operation at Arecibo Observatory
Apr 2	Jonathan Friedman, Arecibo Observatory	Mesopause-region temperature profiling by potassium resonance lidar
Mar 19	Peter Backus, SETI Institute	Project Phoenix: Progress and Plans
Mar 13	Lisa Wray, Arecibo Observatory	Introduction to Radio Astronomy for us Non-PhD People
Mar 8	Eric Gawiser, U.C. San Diego	Towards a Complete Picture of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems
Feb 28	S. Stanimirovic, Arecibo Observatory	Journal Club: New temperatures of diffuse interstellar gas: thermally unstable gas
Feb 26	John Mathews, Penn State University	Radio Science Issues Surrounding HF/VHF/UHF Radar Meteor Studies
Feb 21	Avinash Deshpande, Raman Research Institute	The Small-scale Structure in Interstellar HI: A Puzzle Resolved?
Feb 19	Neil Comins, University of Maine	Heavenly Errors: Exploring Misconceptions About the Cosmos
Feb 7	Slava Slysh, Arecibo Observatory	Journal Club: The significance of the recent discovery of high redshift quasars for the evolution of the Universe
Jan 31	Shami Chatterjee, Cornell University	Neutron Star Kinematics: Pulsar VLBI and its Applications
Jan 28	Di Li, Cornell University	HI Narrow Line Absorption -- Molecular or Not?
Jan 17	Mike Sulzer, Arecibo Observatory	Measuring F region ion and electron temperatures at Jicamarca using incoherent scatter radar: results and theory including the effects of Coulomb collisions
Jan 3	Robert Mutel, University of Iowa	The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Small Comet Theory

Year 2001 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 14	Yashwant Gupta, TIFR Pune University	Cones vs. Patches : Understanding the Geometry of Radio Pulsar Emission Regions
Dec 5	Mary Putman, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder	Tracing Galaxy Assembly with High-Velocity Clouds
Nov 29	Karen O'Neil, Arecibo Observatory	Colloquium: Crouching Giants? The Properties and Stellar History of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Nov 15	Diego Janches, Arecibo Observatory	Colloquium: Radar meteor studies with Arecibo and EISCAT
Nov 7	Bon-Chul Koo, Seoul National University	Colloquium: Shocked HI Gas in Old SNRs
Oct 25	Mike Nolan, Arecibo Observatory	Colloquium: Arecibo Radar Observations of Asteroids
Oct 17	Paulo Freire, Arecibo Observatory	Colloquium: The millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae
Aug 29	John D. Mathews, Penn State Univ.	The Role of Large-Aperture V/UHF Radar Meteor Observations in Meteor Science
Aug 29	Murray Lewis, Arecibo Observatory	Statistical Mechanics of a collisionless system based on the Maximum Entropy Principle
Aug 22	Robert Braun, NFRA, Dwingeloo	CHVCs: Lowest Mass Constituents of Galaxy Groups?
Aug 16	Alex Wolszczan, Penn State Univ.	Three Gems from the Pulsar Goldmine
Aug 13	Karin Sandstrom	Mapping out the Local ISM using Pulsar Scintillation Measurements
Aug 13	Esther Santos	Single-pulse studies with new Arecibo data: Pulse profile stability and Mode changing
Aug 13	Ivelisse Cabrera	Optical and Near-Infrared Galaxies Detected on HI in the Zone of Avoidance
Aug 10	Sun Mi Chung	Neutral Hydrogen in BAL Quasars, PKS1004+13
Aug 10	Val Phillips	Distribution of HI in Dwarf-spiral and Irregular Galaxies
Aug 9	Lindsay DeRemer	Near-Earth Asteroid Observations at Arecibo
Aug 9	Marko Krco	HI Mapping of the Magellanic Stream
Aug 8	Mike Nicolls	3 Web-Based Projects for the Aeronomy Group
Aug 8	Daniel Daugherty	Ionospheric Modeling and the Presence of Topside Sound Waves
Aug 8	Natalia Figueroa	Circularly Polarized Antenna Design
Aug 7	Mike Eydenberg	Temperature and Density Measurements Using LIDAR
Aug 7	Carlos Vargas	Still Looking at Methanol Masers
Aug 7	Homero Cersosimo	Multi-beam cable rack system & 20--40 MHz Baseband mixer
Jul 31	Nestor Aponte	Studies of the Upper Atmosphere with Incoherent Scatter Radars
Jul 26	Summer Students	Hands-on Presentations
Jul 24	Jon Hagen	Electronics in Radio Astronomy
Jul 19	Ellen Howell	Geology of Puerto Rico
Jul 12	Mike Nolan	Asteroids
Jul 3	David Nice, Princeton	Pulsar Timing and Binary Star Astrophysics
Jun 29	Derek Kopon (Cornell)	2MASS Identifications of OH/IR Stars
Jun 27	Yervant Terzian, Cornell	Planetary Nebulae with the Hubble Space Telescope
May 24	Paulo Freire	Ten new millisecond pulsars in globular clusters
May 10	Bill Coles, UCal San Diego	Scattering in the Solar Wind and the Interstellar Plasma
May 4	Fernando Camilo (Columbia)	Radio Pulsars at (mostly) high energies
Apr 26	Vyacheslav Slysh, ASC	Space -VLBI observations of OH masers
Apr 19	R. Maddalena, NRAO	The state of the GBT
Apr 18	Dr. Jose Colom, UPR Mayaguez	Research Facilities at the UPRM Radiation Laboratory
Apr 17	C. Conselice, U Wisconsin	Colloquium: Early-Type Dwarf Galaxies in Clusters
Mar 30	R. Bhat	The small-scale structure in interstellar HI
Mar 8	P. Hofner, UPR, Rio Piedras	Colloquium: Everything you ever wanted to know about massive stars
Mar 2	M. Wyndham	Colloquium:The Breakup of Yugoslavia
Feb 2	T. Ghosh	HI 21-cm absorption in low Z damped Ly-alpha systems
Feb 16	Abel Mendez, UPR, Arecibo	Planetary Habitable Zones: The Spatial Distribution of Life in Planetary Bodies
Jan 25	D. Lorimer	The merging rate of double neutron star binaries

Year 2000 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 19	K. O'Neil	Semianalytical Models for the Formation of Disk Galaxies. Dark Matter versus MOND
Dec 7	Neftali Rivera, UPR, Arecibo	Colloquium: Arecibo Optical Astronomy Observatory
Dec 1	Hans Moosmüller, Desert Research Institute, Univ. of Nevada-Reno	Colloquium: New Optical Methods for Monitoring Atmospheric Visibility
Nov 30	Mark Chang, UPR	Colloquium: The Magdalena Ridge Observatory - an update
Nov 21	Phil Nicholson, Cornell U.	Colloquium: The discovery of 7 new satellites of Uranus and Saturn
Nov 6	Willem Van Driel, Nancay Observatory Delphine Monnier-Ragaigne, Nancay	Colloquium: HI studies of LSB galaxies at Nancay
Oct 20	Matthew Wyndham	Colloquium: Dictatorial Democracy in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Oct 12	Snezana Stanimirovic, NAIC	Colloquium: The interstellar medium in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Oct 5	Chris Salter	CO Observations towards Supernova Remnants with associated OH 1720-MHz Masers
Sep 13	Prof. J.V. Narlikar	The Strange Effects of Gravity
Sep 12	Prof. J.V. Narlikar	The Big Bang: Theories & Alternatives
Sep 7	E Howell	A trip through time on dusty comets
Jul 21	M. Sulzer, NAIC	Incoherent Scatter
Jul 26	S. Gonzalez, NAIC	The Upper Atmosphere
Jul 19	R. Bhat, NAIC	Probing the Local ISM using Pulsars
Jul 18	E. Howell, NAIC	Geology of the Caribbean Plate
Jul 14	R. Barvainis	Molecular Gas and Dust in High Redshift Galaxies
Jul 13	N. Otani	Turbulence in the Human Heart and the Equatorial Electrojet: What do they Have in Common?
Jul 13	R. Kraan-Korteweg, U. de Guanajuato	Galaxies behind the Milky Way and the Great Attractor
Jul 12	R. Ganesan, Raman Institute	TBA
Jul 12	M. Nolan, NAIC	Asteroids
Jul 10	D. Altschuler, NAIC	Arecibo observatory: History and Science
Jul 7	Dunc Lorimer	Searching for and timing radio pulsars
Jul 6	Ramesh Bhat	Introduction to Pulsar Astronomy
Jun 27	Jean-Luc Margot	Radar Astronomy Principles
Jun 22	Karen O'Neil	An LSB Galaxy Primer
Jun 21	Don Campbell	Radio Astronomy Principles
Jun 19	Murray Lewis	OH/IR Stars: the summer student observing project
Jun 16	Leo Blitz	High Velocity Clouds and the Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way
Jun 1	Amy Lovell, FCRAO/Amherst College	HCO+ in Comet Hale-Bopp: Amazing data with a (somewhat) ordinary explanation
May 25	Trinh Xuan Thuan, UVa	Young blue compact dwarf galaxies and the primordial helium abundance
May 24	Magnus Svensson	Transmitter Hunting ... On Site
May 24	Ulla Johansson	Lidar Telescope Pointing and Control System 1: Systems Overview
May 24	Mats Rova	Lidar Telescope Pointing and Control System 2: Software Structure
May 22	Dick Manchester, ATNF	47 Tucanae - A Pulsar Goldmine
May 19	John Salzer, Wesleyan U.	First KISS - preliminary results from the KPNO international spectroscopic survey
May 18	Lister Staveley-Smith, ATNF	Talk on the HIPASS Multibeam Survey
May 16	James Schombert, U. Oregon	The Gas Fraction of Galaxies
May 12	Rob Swaters, U. Washington	Dark matter in dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies
May 5	Danilo Zavrtanik, Nova Gorica Polytechnic, Slovenia	The Arrow of Time: First direct observation of time-reversal non-invariance
Apr 26	Jean-Luc Margot	Recent results from extrasolar planet searches
Apr 10	Tom Troland, U. Kentucky	Aperture Synthesis Observations of the Galactic Magnetic Field
Mar 22	C. Salter & T. Ghosh, NAIC	The State of Astronomy in India
Mar 21	Arthur Bloom, Cornell Univ.	Tropical Karst Geomorphology
Mar 12-14	AO Pulsar Workshop	Contact Dunc Lorimer for info.
Mar 9	Jo Ann Eder	Tidally Triggered Star Formation in Close Pairs of Galaxies
Mar 6, 7	2000 Topside Workshop	Contact Sixto Gonzalez or Eva Robles for info.
Mar 2	Joe McMullin, NRAO	AIPS++ demo
Mar 2	Joe McMullin, NRAO	Glish programming problems/advice
Feb 28/29	SKA meeting	Contact Jill Morrisson for info.
Feb 24	Jim Rose, U. North Carolina	Observational Tests of the Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
Feb 18	Richard Crutcher, U. Illinois	Magnetic Fields and Star Formation
Feb 8	Murray Lewis	Improved Test of the Equivalence Principle for Gravitational Self-Energy
Jan 20	Rick Forster, U.C. Berkeley	Stokes images of Virgo A (M87) at 90 GHz

Year 1999 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 10	Seth Shostak, SETI Institute	How the Hunt for Cosmic Company is Progressing
Nov 23	Paul Jones	Jets of radio Galaxies
Nov 15	W Butler Burton	Compact high velocity clouds
Nov 12	Mike Davis	The Solar Neutrino Problem Solved?
Nov 3	Ingrid Stairs	Recent observations of PSR B1534+12
Oct 29	Phil Nicholson	Observing Saturn's Rings
Oct 8	Zoya Popovic	Active Antenna Arrays
Oct 7	Rick Fisher	RFI Countermeasures
Oct 1	Peter Hofner	New Ideas on Massive Star Formation
Sep 24	Dunc Lorimer	Replay of the Bonn Pulsar Meeting
Sep 7	Ian Dell'Antonio	A Gravitational Lensing Survey of z=0.2 Clusters
Sep 2	Greg Bothun	The Cosmological Constant
Jul 27	Paul Bernhardt	Plasma Physics Experiments in Space using the Space Shuttle Engine
Jul 22	Joe Taylor	The discovery and timing of the binary pulsar 1913+16
Jul 22	Jocelyn Bell-Burnell	The discovery of Pulsars
Jul 20	Don Campbell	Principles of Radar Astronomy
Jul 17	Sixto Gonzalez	The Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Jul 17	Jonathan Friedman	The Arecibo Observatory Lidar System
Jul 16	Ellen Howell	The Geology of Puerto Rico
Jul 12	Mike Nolan	Asteroids
Jul 9	Yervant Terzian	Binary Galaxies and Dark Matter
Jul 7	Joe Veverka	Spacecraft Exploration of Asteroids and Comets
Jul 6	Chris Salter	Radio Continuum Sources
Jun 30	Murrary Lewis	Maser Emission from Circumstellar Envelopes
Jun 29	Dunc Lorimer	Radio Pulsars - An Observer's Perspective
Jun 25	Qihou Zhou	Introduction to the Earth's Atmosphere
Jun 24	John Chandler	Celestial Mechanics and Orbits of Small Bodies
Jun 22	Karen O'Neil	Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
May 28	Mike Davis	The Square Kilometer Array
May 21	Chris Impey	Quasars as Probes
May 19	Fernando Camilo	Latest Results from the Parkes Multibeam Survey
May 7	Stan Kurtz	Hot new results about hot young stars
May 3	Zack Barnes	RFI monitoring at the VLA
Apr 30	Kiriaki Xilouris	Pulsar Astronomy with the upgraded Arecibo telescope
Apr 27	Frank Briggs	Using the 21-cm Line to track evolving galactic potentials at high z
Apr 23	Martin Zwaan	Do Gas Rich Galaxies Dominate the Universe?
Apr 23	Karen O'Neil	VLA and WFPC2 observations of UGC12695
Apr 14	Jeremy Lim	HI imaging of Quasar host galaxies
Mar 25	B. Y. Duan & G. X. Ren	The Engineering Research on the FAST Project
Mar 12	Dunc Lorimer	New views of young neutron stars
Mar 5	Carl Heiles	The Eridanus Superbubble in its multiwavelength glory
Feb 25	Peter Hofner	A New Rosetta Stone for Massive Star Formation
Feb 5	Tapasi Ghosh	Obscuration of the Parsec Scale Jets in the Compact Object 1946+708
Jan 27	Paul Goldsmith	The Submillimeter Wave Satellite (SWAS) - First Light Results
Jan 19	Dan Stinebring	Twinkling pulsars: what we can learn from scintillation
Jan 18	R Giovanelli & J Darling	Results of an Astronomical Site Survey in the High Atacama Desert
Jan 15	Gerald Jay Sussman	The Chaotic Motion of The Solar System
Jan 11	Trinh Xuan Thuan	Man in the Universe: The Big Bang and After

Year 1998 Talk Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
Nov 24	Alex Wolszczan	Surviving the Arecibo upgrade
Nov 13	Chris Salter	The Kinematic and Spatial Deployment of Compact High-Velocity Clouds
Nov 5	Murray Lewis	On the transience of the 1612 MHz emission phase of OH/IR stars