Past Fall Astronomy Day Lectures at GTCC
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| 2011 |
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Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison / IceCube
"Ice Fishing for Neutrinos"
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| 2010 |
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Giovanni Fazio, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics /
Spitzer
Viewing the Universe with Infrared
Eyes: the Spitzer Space Telescope
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| 2009 |
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Hal Levison, Southwest Research Institute
"What Planets Are and How they
Form"
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| 2008 |
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Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard / Swift Mission,
"Black Holes: From Einstein to
Gamma Ray Bursts"
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| 2007 |
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Michael Turner, University of Chicago
"The Dark Side of the
Universe"
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| 2006 |
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Scott Ransom, NRAO-Charlottesville
"The Stellar Undead"
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| 2005 |
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Jeff Hester, Arizona State University,
"From the Big Bang to Big Brains:
the Evolution of Structure in the Universe"
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| 2004 |
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Paul Butler, Carnegie Institute,
"Extrasolar Planets: a First
Reconnaissance"
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| 2003 |
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Prasun Desai, NASA Langley,
"Mars Exploration in the Coming
Decade"
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| 2002 |
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Steve Murray, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics /
Chandra,
"X-ray Astronomy Comes of Age: the
Chandra x-ray Observatory View of the Cosmos"
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2001
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Jay Bergstralh, NASA Langley,
"The Galilean Satellites of
Jupiter"
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| 2000 |
Virginia Trimble, Univ. Cal-Irvine / Univ. Maryland
"Cosmology: Man's Place in the
Universe"
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| 1999 |
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Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithonian Center for
Astrophysics,
"The Universe: Big, Old, and
Accelerating"
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| 1998 |
John Wood, NASA Goddard,
"Resolution: Latest Results from
the Hubble Space Telescope"
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| 1997 |
Bruce Carney, UNC-Chapel Hill,
"How Old is Our Universe?"
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