| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb 15 | Phil Nicholson (Cornell) | Cassini Near-infrared Observations of Saturn's Rings |
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| Feb 22 | Emily McNeil | Modeling the Dynamics of Elliptical and Bulge Galaxies |
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| Feb 29 | Piet van der Kruit (University of Groningen) | The stars and gas in the outer parts of galaxy disks |
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| Mar 7 | Erwin de Blok (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) | MeerKAT: The South African Square Kilometre Array project |
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| Mar 14 | Emma Kirby | The RSAA Student Outreach Program |
| | Charles Jenkins | How to combine data with doubtful error bars |
| Mar 21 | No FoF | Good Friday Holiday |
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| Mar 28 | No FoF | GMT Science meeting |
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| Apr 4 | No FoF | |
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| Apr 11 | Michele Bannister | Patterned ground and ancient buried ice on Mars and in Antarctica |
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| Apr 18 | Wolfgang Kerzendorf | The Physics of Supernova (Thesis Proposal) |
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| Apr 25 | No FoF | ANZAC Day Holiday |
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| May 2 | No FoF | |
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| May 9 | Victor Flambaum (UNSW) | Variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks: theory and observations |
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| May 16 | Michele Bannister | Kuiper Belt Objects in the Southern Hemisphere Sky (Thesis Proposal) |
| | Gary Da Costa | Does w Cen have an 'extra-tidal' population? |
| May 23 | Mark Waterson | MWA Expedition 3 - Frogs in the Desert!? |
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| May 30 | Ragini Singh | Thesis Proposal: Quasars And The Transverse Proximity Effect |
| | Charles Jenkins | It's not my DNA - what every citizen should know about Bayes' Theorem |
| Jun 6 | Mike Pracy | The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey |
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| Jun 13 | Brett Biddington | "Skin in the Game": Australia's Space Engagement to 2025 |
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| Jun 20 | Ben McKinley | Ground Layer Adaptive Optics at Siding Spring |
| | Catherine Farage | Thesis Proposal: The Physics of AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters |
| Jun 27 | Penny Sackett | Transits against Fainter Stars: The Power of Image Deconvolution |
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| Jul 4 | Manuel Metz | Doing science on your consumer graphics card! |
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| Jul 11 | No FoF | |
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| Jul 18 | Ravi Subramanian (Raman Institute in Bangalore) | Probes of large-scale structure in the gas |
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| Jul 25 | No FoF | |
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| Aug 1 | Grant Kennedy | Circumstellar disk dispersal across the stellar mass spectrum |
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| Aug 8 | Alessandro Chieffi (Rome) | The synthesis of Al26 and Fe60 in massive stars and their current abundances in our Galaxy |
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| Aug 15 | Martin Asplund | MA, MPA, MPI |
| | Eduard Westra | Some final words (and pictures?) ... |
| Aug 22 | Jackie Cooper | A Three-Dimensional Study of Starburst-Driven Galactic Winds (Final thesis talk) |
| | Laszlo Kiss | Sky surveys in the time domain: lessons from pulsating red giants and transiting exoplanets |
| Aug 29 | Sayuri Prior | RR Lyrae Stars as Tracers of Substructure in the Galactic Halo (Final thesis talk) |
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| Sep 5 | Christine Nicholls | Evolution and Variability of Binary and Single AGB Stars (Thesis proposal) |
| | Charley Lineweaver | Terrestrial Life and Lunar Impacts |
| Sep 12 | No FoF | |
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| Sep 19 | Amanda Karakas | The Origin of Fluorine and Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars |
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| Sep 26 | Thomas Rutherford | The death of the Earth's biosphere (Honours talk) |
| | Claudia Bruens (University of Bonn) | The Origin of Faint Fuzzies in NGC 1023 |
| Oct 3 | Rick Perley (NRAO) | The Expanded Very Large Array |
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| Oct 10 | Simon Murphy | An Introduction to the Virtual Observatory |
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| Oct 17 | Computer Section | Telescope Control System |
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| Oct 24 | Ross Church (Monash) | The Stars of the Galactic Centre and Hyper-Velocity Stars |
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| Oct 31 | Nozomu Tominaga (NAOJ) | Nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae |
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| Nov 7 | Gary Da Costa | Scl-dE1 GC1: a big cluster in a little galaxy |
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| Nov 14 | Aditya Chopra | What is Life made of? (Honours talk) |
| | Tom Evans | Astrophysical false positives in transiting extrasolar planet surveys (Honours talk) |
| Nov 21 | Dan, Grant, Wolfgang | Feast-of-MACs |
| | Charles Jenkins | |
| Nov 28 | No FoF | Student X-mas seminars |
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