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<h2>Archive</h2>
<p>Astronomy Open Night has been run since 1973. Here is the list of
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<p><h3>Fall 1993</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 3, 1993</td>
<td>Prof. Dan Davis</td>
<td>Why is there no San Andreas Fault on Venus?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 1, 1993</td>
<td>Prof. Amos Yahil</td>
<td>Unraveling the Secrets of the Universe by
Observing Millions of Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 5, 1993</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>The Dawn of a New Era in Astronomy: Scientific
Results from the First Three Years of the Hubble Space Telescope</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 3, 1993</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>Most Stars are born as Twins</td></tr>
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<p><h3>Spring 1994</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 4, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Jack Lissauer</td>
<td>Rings of the Giant Planets</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 4, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>New Light on Dark Matter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 1, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>The Infrared Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 6, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>Supernovae and Neutron Stars</td></tr>
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<p><h3>Fall 1994</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 2, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>Big New Telescopes: The Gemini Project</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 7, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>Impacts in the Solar System: Can We Do Anything</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 5, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Ken Lanzetta</td>
<td>Matter Between the Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 2, 1994</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>Cataclysmic Variables: Stars That Go Bump in the Night</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 1995</h3>
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<tr><td>Feb 3, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td>Large Interferometry Arrays: A Revolution
Coming in Optical Astronomy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 3, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>The Age of the Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 7, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Amos Yahil</td>
<td>The Information Content of Astronomical Data</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 5, 1995</td>
<td>Astronomy Faculty</td>
<td>A Special Program to Commemorate 20 Years of
Astronomy Open Nights</td></tr>
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<p><h3>Fall 1995</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 8, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>Planet Formation in the Binary Star Environment</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 6, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>Quasar Absorption Lines: Probing Distant Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 3, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Jack Lissauer</td>
<td>The Galileo Mission to Jupiter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 1, 1995</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Galaxies in the Distant Universe: How and Why Galaxies Form</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 1996</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 2, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Radio Astronomy and the Ozone Layer</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 1, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Amos Yahil</td>
<td>Gravitational Lenses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 5, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>The Search for Planets Around Other Stars:
The Difficulties and Rewards</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 3, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td>The Search for Planets Around Other Stars:
NASA's Grand New Odyssey</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 1996</h3><p>
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<tr><td>Sep 6, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>Life on Mars: The Story in the Rocks</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 4, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>The Gemini Telescopes: Giants Stirring</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 1, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>A Glimpse of the Edge of the Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 6, 1996</td>
<td>Prof. Frederick Walter</td>
<td>Discovery of a Nearby Neutron Star</td></tr>
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<p><h3>Spring 1997</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 7, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Martin Schoonen</td>
<td>New Thinking on the Origin of Life</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 7, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Daniel Davis</td>
<td>Galileo at Jupiter's Moons: Seeing Signs of Stress</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 29, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td>SPECIAL LECTURE: HALE-BOPP: The Great
Comet of 1997</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 4, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. James Neff</td>
<td>Advances in Satellite Studies of the Sun
and Imaging of Solar Type Stars</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 2, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Amos Yahil</td>
<td>Will the Cosmic Background Radiation
Unravel the Remaining Secrets of Creation?</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 1997</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 5, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Daniel Davis</td>
<td>Galileo at Jupiter's Moons: Seeing Signs of Stress</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 3, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>The Clustering of Young Stars</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 7, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>When Neutron Stars Collide</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 5, 1997</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>The Hubble Space Telescope 'Deep Field Image'</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 1998</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 6, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>The Science in Science Fiction</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 6, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Chang Kee Jung</td>
<td>We See Stars Underground</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 3, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Gerald Brown</td>
<td>Supernova Explosions, Black Holes and Nucleon Stars</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 1, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Radioastronomy: From Black Holes to Star Formation</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 1998</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 4, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Dan Davis</td>
<td>Things That go Bump in the Crust: How the Sun's Planets Compare</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 2, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Jim Lattimer</td>
<td>The New Planets</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 6, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>The Science in Science Fiction: Part II</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 4, 1998</td>
<td>Prof. Ralph Wijers</td>
<td>Gamma Ray Bursts: Mother Nature's Biggest Firecrackers</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 1999</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 5, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td>Our Changing Views on the Milky Way:
It's Not What It Used to Be</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 5, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Ken Lanzetta</td>
<td>The Hubble `Deep Field' Goes South—and
Records are Broken Again</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 9, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Galaxies in Collision: Tails, Bridges
and Mergers in the Early Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 7, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Miriam Forman</td>
<td>Alien Atoms In the Solar System</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 1999</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Sep 3, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>Cosmic Crashes: How Colliding Neutron
Stars Teach Us About Einstein's Theory of Relativity</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 1, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>The Transits of Mercury</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 5, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>Chandra, XMM and X-ray Astronomy Comes of Age</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 3, 1999</td>
<td>Prof. Ralph Wijers</td>
<td>Tick-tick-tick in the Sky: Neutron Stars as Precision Clocks</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2000</h3></p>
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<tr><td>Feb 4, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>Giant Eyes: The Next Generation of Very Large Telescopes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 3, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Aaron Evans</td>
<td>Giant Black Holes at the Hearts of Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 7, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>The Sun, Stars and Jello: New Results from Asteroseismology</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 5, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Chang Kee Jung</td>
<td>Nature's Rare Optical Displays: Rainbows, Sundogs,
Green Flashes, Heiligenschein and more...</td></tr>
<tr><td>June 16, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Carolyn Porco, University of Arizona</td>
<td>Special Lecture: Exploration of the Outer Solar System</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2000</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 1, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>The Latest News on Black Holes and
Gravitational Lenses</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 6, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Ralph Wijers</td>
<td>A Ruckus from the Cradle: Gamma-Ray Bursts
in Stellar Nurseries</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 3, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>SIRTF: NASA's `Great Observatory' for
the Infrared</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 1, 2000</td>
<td>Prof. Frederick Walter</td>
<td>AB Doradus: A Sun in the Era of
Planet Formation?</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2001</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 2, 2001</td>
<td>Dr. Dara Norman</td>
<td>Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing: Finding
the Unseen</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 2, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td>Is Advanced Life Common in the Universe?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 6, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>Extrasolar Planets</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 4, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. Aaron S. Evans</td>
<td>Quasars and Their Environments</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2001</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 7, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. J. Lattimer</td>
<td>Can we measure the radius of a neutron star,
and if we can, so what?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 5, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Extreme Starbursts in Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 2, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>Cosmology from Distant Supernovae: Is the
Expansion of the Universe Accelerating?"</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 7, 2001</td>
<td>Prof. Frederick Walter</td>
<td>Astronomy and Astrology: The Influence of
Stars in our Lives</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2002</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 1, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>Explosions in the Sky: Understanding Supernovae</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 1, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td>Measuring Distances in Astronomy:
It's Harder Than You Think</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 5, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>Weighing the Young Stars</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 3, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. Aaron S. Evans</td>
<td>Kuiper Belt Objects: Remnants of The Early Solar System</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2002</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 6, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>Observing the Most Distant Gas in the Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 4, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. J. Lattimer</td>
<td>Globular Clusters: Cosmic Singles Bars</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 1, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. P. Hickson</td>
<td>Very-Large Optical Telescopes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 6, 2002</td>
<td>Prof. Philip Solomon</td>
<td>Recent Changes in the Ozone Layer</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2003</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 7, 2003</td>
<td colspan="2">SNOW Cancellation</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 7, 2003</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>White Dwarves: Out With A Dramatic Whimper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 4, 2003</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>The Next Big Hit</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 2, 2003</td>
<td>Dr. Hsien Shang</td>
<td>The Solar System: How It All Began</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2003</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 5, 2003</td>
<td>Prof. Jim Lattimer</td>
<td>30 Years of Neutron Star Mergers</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 3, 2003</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td>30 Years Since UHURU: X-Ray Astronomy Comes of Age</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 31, 2003</td>
<td>Prof. Aaron Evans</td>
<td>The Evolution of Bright Infrared Galaxies</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 5, 2003</td>
<td colspan="2">SNOW CANCELLATION: Lecture Postponed to Next Semester</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2004</h3><p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 6, 2004</td>
<td>Dr. Sharada Iyer Dutta</td>
<td>Since 1930 - Celebrating the Neutrino from
Physics to Astrophysics</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 5, 2004</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td>The Next Transit of Venus</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 2, 2004</td>
<td>Prof. Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>The Ultra Deep Field: Hubble's Look at the
Outer Fringes</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 7, 2004</td>
<td>Prof. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>Measuring the Universe With Thermonuclear
Supernovae</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2004</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 3, 2004</td>
<td>Prof James Lattimer</td>
<td>What is a Neutron Star Made Of?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 1, 2004</td>
<td>Dr Carolyn Porco</td>
<td>SPECIAL LECTURE (5pm): In Orbit! The Voyage of Cassini to Saturn</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 1, 2004</td>
<td>Prof Frederick Walter</td>
<td>SMARTS: Big Science with Small Telescopes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 29, 2004</td>
<td>Prof Philip Solomon</td>
<td>The Spitzer Telescope: A New Look at the
Infrared Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 4, 2004</td>
<td>Prof Aaron Evans</td>
<td>A Near-Infrared View of Galaxies with the 2 Micron
All Sky Survey</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2005</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 4, 2005</td>
<td>Prof F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>GRB 03039 and the Connection Between Gamma-Ray
Bursts and Supernovae</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 4, 2005</td>
<td>Prof Michal Simon</td>
<td>Exoplanets</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 8, 2005</td>
<td>Prof Deane Peterson</td>
<td>Cassini at Saturn</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 6, 2005</td>
<td>Dr Eric Myra</td>
<td>Numerical Telescopes: Exploring the Frontiers of
Astrophysics and Advanced Computing</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2005</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 2, 2005</td>
<td>Prof F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td>The Evolution of Elements in the Galaxy</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sep 30, 2005</td>
<td>Prof James Lattimer</td>
<td>Supernova Memories</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 28, 2005</td>
<td>Prof Aaron Evans</td>
<td>Deep Impact</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 2, 2005</td>
<td>Prof Frederick Walter</td>
<td>A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2006</h3><p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 3, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Michal Simon</td>
<td>Brown Dwarfs - Failed Stars or Overgrown Planets?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 3, 2006</td>
<td>Dr. Kenneth DeNisco</td>
<td>Cassini: Another Year at Saturn</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 31, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>Dark Energy, Dark Matter</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 5, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Michael Zingale</td>
<td>Understanding Type Ia Supernovae</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2006</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 1, 2006</td>
<td>Prof James Lattimer</td>
<td>Asteroids Can Be Painful</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 6, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Kenneth Lanzetta</td>
<td>The New Age of Precision Cosmology</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 3, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td>Hunting for Planets Outside the Solar System</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 1, 2006</td>
<td>Prof Frederick Walter</td>
<td>Thermonuclear Bombs in Space: The Novae</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2007</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 2, 2007</td>
<td>Dr. Kathleen Flint</td>
<td>Astronomy from the South Pole</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 2, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. Aaron Evans</td>
<td>Transiting Planets</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 30, 2007</td>
<td>Dr. James Pizagno</td>
<td>Dark Matter and Stellar Mass in the Universe</td></tr>
<tr><td>May 4, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. Michael Zingale</td>
<td>Do You Really Know Your Own Sun?</td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2007</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 7, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. Jim Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f07Jim.html">The Top of Astronomy: Pulsars</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 5, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td><A href="archive/f07Mike.html">Is Pluto a Planet?</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 2, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td><A href="archive/f07Fred.html">What Big Eyes You Have!</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 7, 2007</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td><A href="archive/f07Doug.html">Merging White Dwarf Stars</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2008</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 1, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td><A href="archive/s08Anand.html">A Clearer View of the Skies
using Adaptive Optics</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 7, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s08Alan.html">Twinkle, Twinkle, Exploding Star,
How We Wonder What You Are!</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 4, 2008</td>
<td>Dr. Kathleen Flint Ehm</td>
<td><A href="archive/s08Katie.html">Dwarf Satellites: The search for
the Universe’s smallest galaxies</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>May 2, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Michael Zingale</td>
<td><A href="archive/s08Mike.html">Computing the Stars:
How Computers Are Used in Astrophysics</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2008</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 5, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Jim Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f08Jim.html">Now You See Them, Now You
Don't: What Transits Can Tell Us About Extrasolar Planets</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 3, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td><A href="archive/f08Anand.html">The James Webb Space Telescope:
A First Light Machine</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 31, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. Stanimir Metchev</td>
<td><A href="archive/f08Stan.html">From Stars to Planets</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 5, 2008</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td><A href="archive/f08Doug.html">The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2009</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 6, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s09Alan.html">Are you there E.T.?
It's us, Earth: An Update on the Search for Life in the Universe</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 6, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Deane Peterson</td>
<td><A href="archive/s09Deane.html">The Early Solar System:
Not So Musical Chairs</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 3, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td><A href="archive/s09Anand.html">Finding Planets Around Bright Stars</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>May 1, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Michael Zingale</td>
<td><A href="archive/s09Mike.html">We Are All Made of Stars: A Survey of
Stellar Nucleosynthesis</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2009</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 4, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f09Jim.html">When Neutron Stars Collide</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 2, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td><A href="archive/f09Anand.html">Planet-Hunting with
Space Telescopes</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 6, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td><A href="archive/f09Doug.html">Evidence for the Big Bang</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 4, 2009</td>
<td>Prof. Stanimir Metchev</td>
<td><A href="archive/f09Stan.html">Astrometry: a Tool for the
Impatient Astronomer</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring & Summer 2010</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 5, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Mikes.html">Where Are We?</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 5, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Doug.html">Standard supernovas and
the future of the Universe</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 9, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Alan.html">Mars: A Travelogue</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>May 7, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. Michael Zingale</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Mike.html">Measuring Distances
in the Universe</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>June 4, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. F. Douglas Swesty</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Doug2.html">Evidence for Dark Matter</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>July 2, 2010</td>
<td>Mr. Joshua Schlieder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s10Josh.html">All the Neighbors are Moving!
Astrometry in the Solar Neighborhood</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2010</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 3, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f10Jim.html">Measuring Neutron Stars:
The Tale of the Tape</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 1, 2010</td>
<td>Dr. Jennifer Donovan Meyer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f10Jen.html">Observing Galaxies Large
and Small with the Hubble Space Telescope</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 29, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td><A href="archive/f10Fred.html">Thermonuclear Bombs
in Space: The Novae</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 3, 2010</td>
<td>Prof. Stanimir Metchev</td>
<td><A href="archive/f10Stan.html">Extremely High-Contrast
Astronomical Imaging—the Dawn of Comparative
Exoplanetology</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2011</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 4, 2011</td>
<td>Dr. Emily Rice, AMNH</td>
<td><A href="archive/s11Emily.html">What is a Planet?</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 4, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s11Alan.html">Fires and Floods on
White Dwarfs: A Nova Model</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 1, 2011</td>
<td>Stony Brook Astronomy Club</td>
<td><A href="archive/s11astroclub.html">Observing at Mt. Stony Brook and
Other Activities of The Astronomy Club</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>May 6, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. Mike Zingale</td>
<td><A href="archive/s11Mike.html">Stellar Violence</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Fall 2011</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sep 2, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f11Jim.html">Black Holes Large and Small</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 14, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/f11Alan.html">Exploring Jupiter with Juno</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 11, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. Stanimir Metchev</td>
<td><A href="archive/f11Stan.html">2012 - Myth, Fiction, and Fact</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 16, 2011</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td><A href="archive/f11Fred.html">Innumeracy</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2012</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Jan 20, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Anand Sivaramakrishnan</td>
<td><A href="archive/s12Anand.html">Unfolding the James
Webb Space Telescope</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Feb 17, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td><A href="archive/s12MikeS.html">The Exoplanetary Systems:
Very, Very Unexpected New Worlds</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 16, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Alan Calder</td>
<td><A href="archive/s12Alan.html">Cosmic Candle Making
with Type Ia Supernovae</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>April 20, 2012</td>
<td>Thomas Sebring (Xoptx)</td>
<td>Special <A href="http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~forestea/ASNY/index.html">ASNY</A> Talk:
<A href="archive/asny.html">How to Build a Really Big Telescope</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Apr 27, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Michael Zingale</td>
<td><A href="archive/s12Mike.html">Motions in the Skies</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Special Summer 2012 Session</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>June 5, 2012</td>
<td colspan=2><A href="archive/s12transit.html">Transit of Venus</a></td></tr>
</table>
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<p><h3>Fall 2012</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Sept 7, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Jin Koda</td>
<td><A href="archive/f12Jin.html">Lights, Telescopes, and Interferometers</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oct 5, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Michal Simon</td>
<td><A href="archive/f12MikeS.html">Tides in the Solar System</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nov 2, 2012</td>
<td colspan=2>POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dec 7, 2012</td>
<td>Prof. Stan Metchev</td>
<td><A href="archive/f12Stan.html">Homing in on Another Earth</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><h3>Spring 2013</h3></p>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3px>
<tr><td>Feb 1, 2013</td>
<td>Prof. James Lattimer</td>
<td><A href="archive/f12Jim.html">The Discovery of
Superfluidity in the Core of a Neutron Star</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mar 1, 2013</td>
<td>Prof. Fred Walter</td>
<td><A href="archive/s13Fred.html">The Disappearing