December 2010
Dr. Tim Tubbs
Particle phsics and what we expect from the Large Hadron Collider
November 2010
Dr. Thomas Lowe
Extra-solar planet discoveries & Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder telescope
October 2010
Dr. Daniel Usitov
Current Hypotheses on Dark Energy
August 2010
Dr. Seth Shostak
New Approaches to theSearch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
July 2010
Dr. Jonathan Devor
Searching for Eclipsing Binary Stars, and the Strange Things We Find
June 2010
Brian Day
LCROSS Mission
May 2010
Dr. Bradford Holden
Physical Evolution of Massive Galaxies
March 2010
Dr. Constance Rockosi
The Structure of the Milky Way
February 2010
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Astrophotography Form Local Skies
January 2010
Dr. Peter Jenneskins
Catch A Fallen Star
December 2009
Jay Reynolds Freeman
Cosmic Bird Watching: Visual Observation of the Deep Sky
November 2009
Gordon Reade
The history and development of Planetariums
August 2009
Rob Sigler
Glass-Liquid Apochromats.
July 2009
Norm Sperling
“This Book Warps Space and Time”
June 2009
Rod Norden
Pioneer 10 and 11 Missions
May 2009
Dr. Christopher Mauche
The X-ray Universe
March 2009
Dr. Kevin Zahnle
Earth After The Moon-Forming Impact
February 2009
Dr.Chris McKay of NASA
What We Have Learned From the Mars Phoenix Lander
January 2009
Dr. Ruslan Belikov of NASA/Ames
Searching For Other Earths
December 2008
Robert Sabin (UCSC)
Comparison of Stellar Characteristics of Red Giant Stars in their Evolutionary Path.
November 2008
Dr. Helen Quinn
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
October 2008
Monika Kress (SJSU Virtual Planet Laboratory)
Searching for life on exoplanets: How will we know it if we see it?
August 2008
UCB astronomer Dr. Frank Marchis
Binary Asteroids
July 2008
Historian John Dillon
When Astronomy Became a Science: The Museum of Alexandria.
May 2008
Dr. Dana Backman of SETI
Nearby Stars and Debris Disks: A Ringside Seat to Planet Formation
March 2008
Dr. Adrian Brown of the SETI Institute
Latest Results from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
February 2008
Milo Freund
All those Organics up in the Night Sky
January 2008
Dr. Jeff Moore of NASA
Pluto Express spacecraft’s encounter with Jupiter.
November 2007
Michael Connelly
The Formation of Binary Stars
October 2007
Peter Dunckel
Mapping Asteroid 90 Antiope in Professional-Amateur Collaboration
August 2007
Dr. Graeme Smith, UC Professor of Astronomy
Research on globular Clusters.