Sept. 12 "PRIME - A Near-Infrared Survey"
Dr. Wei Zheng, JHU/CAS
Sept. 19 "Weakly-ionized Accretion Disks"
Dr. Kristen Menou, Princeton University,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Sept. 26 "Gamma Ray Burst Energetics and Environments from Afterglow Studies"
Dr. James Rhoads, STScI
Oct. 03 "The Origin of OVI in the Interstellar Medium:
Death of the Evaporative Cloud Model?"
Dr. Bill Oegerle, JHU/CAS
Oct. 10 "Status of the SIM Mission"
Dr. Ron Allen, STScI
Oct. 17 "The Physics of X-ray Jets"
Dr. Meg Urry, STScI
Oct. 24 "The Ionization of the Warm Ionized Medium in Nearby Spirals"
Dr. Charles Hoopes, JHU/CAS
Oct. 31 "Poissonian Analysis of Quasar Variability: Theory & Observations"
Dr. Roberto Cid Fernandes, JHU/CAS
Nov. 07 "The Stellar Collider in the Galactic Center"
Dr. Tal Alexander, STScI
Nov. 14 "Dust Absorption and Reddening of Starbursts"
Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
Nov. 21 "The Death and Resurrection of Mean Field Dynamo Theory"
Dr. Ethan Vishniac, JHU/CAS
Nov. 28 "The Search for O VI Emission from the Galaxy's Hot
Interstellar Medium"
Dr. Robin Shelton, JHU/CAS
Dec. 05 "X-rays from the AGN and the X-ray Reflectors in the Seyfert
Galaxy NGC1068"
Dr. Ed Colbert, JHU/CAS
Dec. 12 "Time-dependent X-ray Reflection by Photoionized Accretion
Disks: Implications for Fe K-alpha Line Reveberation
Studies of AGN"
Dr. Sergei Nayakshin, NRC Fellow, NASA/GSFC
Jan. 25: "Initial Results from the FUSE Mission"
Local FUSE Science Team Members, JHU/CAS
***Postponed due to Weather***
Feb. 01: "Some Like It Hot: Understanding Starburst-driven Galactic Winds"
Dr. Dave Strickland, JHU/CAS
Feb. 08: "Mapping the Accretion Disks of Compact Binary Systems at
Near-Infrared Wavelengths"
Dr. Cynthia Froning, STScI
Feb. 15: "Initial Results from the FUSE Mission"
Local FUSE Science Team Members, JHU/CAS
(NOTE: Rescheduled from Jan. 25. After a few introductory remarks, FUSE
posters from the recent AAS meeting will be available for inspection,
and local FUSE scientists will be available for informal discussions.)
Feb. 22: "The Surprising Environments of Massive Evolved Stars in M31"
Dr. Nichole King, STScI
Feb. 29: "FUSE Observations of High Velocity Clouds"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Mar. 07: "Discovering the Physics of Jets in Active Galaxies"
Dr. Eric Perlman, JHU/CAS
Mar. 14: "The Evolution of X-ray CLusters and the Entropy of
the Intra-Cluster Medium"
Dr. Paolo Tozzi, JHU/CAS
Mar. 21: "Spring Break Week...No Talk Scheduled"
Mar. 28: "X-ray Spectral Line Variability in Seyfert 1 Galaxies"
*Mr. Jonathan Gelbord, JHU/CAS
Apr. 04: "Far Infrared Spectroscopy of Normal Galaxies:
Physical Conditions and Energetics in Starforming ISM"
Dr. Sangeeta Malhotra, JHU/CAS
Apr. 11: "HST Workshop--No CAS Seminar"
Apr. 18: "Grain Alignment and Interstellar Polarization"
Dr. Wayne Roberge, Physics Dept., RPI
Apr. 25: "The Rocket Science of Expelling Stellar Disks"
Dr. Stan Owocki, Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
May 02: "Star Clusters and the Duration of Starbursts"
*Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
May 09: "Brickwedde Lecture--No CAS Seminar"
Sept. 14: "New Atomic Data Computations and Experimental Benchmarking
of Collisional-radiative (CR) Models for Ions of Astrophysical
and Laboratory Plasma Physics Interest"
Dr. Mario Mattioli, EURATOM-ENEA Association
for Fusion Research, Frascati, Italy
Sept. 21: "High-Velocity Clouds: Tidal Debris or Baby Galaxies?"
Dr. Mary Putman, Mt. Stromlo Observatory - Australian National
University, JHU/CAS visitor
Sept. 28: NOTE: Joint CAS/TIPAC Seminar
"Putting Some Pieces of the Quasar Puzzle Together"
Dr. Ari Laor, Technion U.
Oct. 5: "The Molecular Universe"
Dr. Xander Tielens, Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen
Oct. 12: "Commissioning NIRSPEC: Hot Stars and Cool Clouds
of the Eagle Nebula PDR"
Dr. Nancy Levenson, JHU/CAS
Oct. 19: "Thermal Ionization Instability and Iron Lines from Accretion Disks
in AGN and GBHCs"
Dr. Sergei Nayakshin, NASA/GSFC, NRC Associate
Oct. 26: "Massive Star Formation in Early-type(Sa-Sab) Spiral Galaxies"
Mr. Salman Hameed, New Mexico State University
Nov. 2: "Driving Outflows from Young Stars Using Internal Disk
Magnetic Fields"
Dr. Neal Turner, Univ. of MD
Nov. 9: "EUV and X-ray Properties of Hot Stars"
Dr. David Cohen, Bartol/U. Delaware
Nov. 16: "Supernovae and Beamed Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Dr. Insu Yi, Korean Institute for Advanced Study
Nov. 23: "Modern Measurements of Omega and Lambda"
Dr. Andrew Jaffe, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Nov. 30: "Maryland Space Grant Consortium"
Dr. Richard Henry, JHU/CAS
Dec. 7: "Cold Clouds and Hot Stars in the Thick Disks of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Chris Howk, JHU/CAS
Dec. 14: "Imaging an Event Horizon"
Dr. Eric Agol, JHU/CAS
Jan. 26: "A Comparison of Two Ultraluminous Supernova Remnants"
Dr. Bill Blair, JHU/CAS
Feb. 02: "The Origin and Clustering Properties of Low-Redshift QSO
Absorption Line Systems Towards the Galactic Poles"
Dr. Daniel Vanden Berk, U. Texas
Feb. 09: "Tracing Chemical Evolution of Galaxies with Quasar
Absorption Lines"
Dr. Varsha Kulkarni, U. Arizona
Feb. 16: "Planning Observations with XMM and Astro-E"
Dr. Kim Weaver, JHU/CAS and NASA/GSFC
Feb. 23: "Massive Stars Near the Galactic Center"
Dr. Don Figer, UCLA
Mar. 02: "High Redshift Clusters: New Results from Keck and HST"
Dr. Marc Postman, JHU/CAS and STScI
Mar. 09: "The Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters: An Easy Model and
What We Can Learn from It"
Dr. Rosendo Vilchez-Gomez, STScI
Mar. 16: "Spring Break--No CAS Seminar"
Mar. 23: "Precision Cosmology with CMB Experiments and Large
Redshift Surveys"
Dr. Daniel Eisenstein, IAS/Princeton
Mar. 25: "Accessing and Using SDSS Test Data at JHU"
Dr. Wei Zheng, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday, 1 p.m., rm 361
Mar. 30: "Protostellar Outflows" POSTPONED!!
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, JHU/CAS
Apr. 01: "Probing the Inner Regions of AGN with
X-ray Spectroscopy"
Dr. Chris Reynolds, Univ. of Colorado
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 05: "The Next Generation of Faint Redshift Surveys"
Dr. Karl Glazebrook, Anglo-Australian Observatory
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Monday, 4 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 06: "No CAS Seminar--Brickwedde Lecture"
Apr. 09: "Measuring Feedback and Understanding
Its Role in Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
Dr. Crystal Martin, STScI
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Friday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 13: "The Optical and UV Light Echo of SN 19987A"
Dr. Steve Lawrence, Columbia U.
Apr. 14: "Spiral Galaxies with HST: Clues to Bulge Formation"
Dr. Marcella Carollo, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Wednesday, 4 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 15: "The Search for High Redshift Galaxy Clusters:
Present Status and Future Prospects"
Dr. Piero Rosati, European Southern Observatory
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Thursday 4:00 p.m. - Bloomberg 361
Apr. 16: "The Galactic Disk-Halo Connection: Understanding
QSO Absorption Line Systems and Chemical Evolution"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
NOTE: Special Time and Date: Friday, 2 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 20: "NO CAS SEMINAR"
Apr. 27: "Radio Signature of HI at High Redshifts: Mapping the
End of the Dark Age"
Dr. Paolo Tozzi, JHU/CAS
May 04: "No CAS Seminar--STScI Conference"
May 11: "Protostellar Outflows" (Rescheduled from Mar. 30)
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, JHU/CAS
June 1: "Three Point Statistics in Large-Scale Structure:
From Theory to Observations"
Dr. Roman Scoccimaro, CITA
Sept. 8: "The z=1.6748 C I Absorber Toward the QSO PKS 1756+237"
Dr. Kathy Roth, IfA, Hawaii
Sept. 15: "The Low End of the Initial Mass Function for the R136
Cluster in the LMC"
Dr. Marco Sirianni, JHU/CISAS-Italy
Sept. 22: "The Pressure in Molecular Cloud Envelopes; HST Measurements
of the C I Fine Structure Lines towards B5"
Dr. B-G Andersson, JHU/CAS
Sept. 29: "Do cluster galaxies have extended dark halos?"
Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan, CITA (Toronto)
Oct. 6: "The 1998/1999 Leonid Meteor Storms"
Dr. Ed Murphy, JHU/CAS
Oct. 13: "The Host Galaxies of AGN"
Dr. Meg Urry, JHU/CAS and STScI
Oct. 20: "The Ecology of the Cygnus Loop"
Dr. Nancy Levenson, JHU/CAS
Oct. 27: "Evolutionary Status of Dwarf 'Transition' Galaxies"
Dr. Pat Knezek, JHU/CAS
Nov. 3: "Election Day-Vote Early and Often!"
No CAS Seminar
Nov. 10: "The Distance Scale to Globular Clusters"
Dr. Carla Cacciari,
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy
Nov. 17: "Dusty Clouds and Star Formation in the Disk-Halo
Interface of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Chris Howk, UW-Madison
Nov. 24: "Phase A study for CUVIT: the Canadian UV Imaging Telescope"
Dr. John Hutchings, DAO/HIA/NRC
Dec. 1: "Two-dimensional Radiative Transfer in Circumstellar Flows"
Dr. C.P. Dullemond, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Dec. 8: "How Big is the M82 Superwind?"
Dr. David Devine, NASA/GSFC
CAS Seminars, Spring 1998 (Ave. attend. = 24
Feb. 3: "Another Piece of the Sky: Supernova Remnants in the
Milky Way's Halo"
Dr. Robin Shelton, LHEA/NASA GSFC
Special CAS Seminar--Thur. 1 p.m., rm 361 ***CANCELLED***
Feb. 5: "High-Velocity Clouds"
Dr. Eric Schulman, NRAO
Feb. 10: "Opening Up the Mg II Absorbing Universe"
Dr. Chris Churchill, Penn State
Feb. 17: "Structure of the Crab Nebula Filaments"
Dr. Ravi Sankrit, Arizona State University
Feb. 24: "Brickwedde Lecture -- no CAS Seminar"
Mar. 3: The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Filling A Crucial Gap
in Our Knowledge of the Sky"
Dr. Luciana Bianchi, JHU/CAS
Special CAS Seminar: Wed. at 2 p.m., rm 235:
Mar. 4: "Investigating the Intergalactic Medium Using Unique
QSO Configurations"
Mr. Eric Monier, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Mar. 10: "3-D Spectrography of AGNs with TIGER/OASIS"
Dr. Pierre Ferruit, Univ. of MD
Mar. 17: "Spring Break Week" (No Talk.)
Mar. 24: "The IUE MEGA Campaign: A New View of Hot-Star Winds"
Dr. Alex Fullerton, JHU/CAS
Mar. 31: "Starbursts, Dark Matter, and the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies"
Dr. Gerhardt Meurer, JHU/CAS
Apr. . 7: "The Relationship Between Galaxies and QSO Lyman Alpha
Clouds at Low Redshifts"
Dr. Todd Tripp, Princeton University
Special CAS Seminar--Thur. 1 p.m., rm 361
Apr. 9: "IMAS/UV: The Indian Astronomy Satellite"
Dr. A. K. Pati, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Apr. . 14: "Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology"
Dr. Bhuvnesh Jain, JHU/CAS
Apr. . 21: "What's Up with High Velocity Clouds?"
Dr. Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Apr. . 28: "Potts Lecture" Dr. Martin Rees. [No CAS Seminar]
May . 5: STScI Conference on Stellar Evolution, May 4-7. [No CAS Seminar]
May . 12: "Evolution of the M/L Ratios of Early-Type Galaxies to
Intermediate Redshift"
Dr. Dan Kelson, Carnegie/DTM
May . 19: "How Do Bright Accretion Disks Shine?"
Dr. Eric Agol, JHU/CAS
June 2: "A Proposer's Guide to the XMM Mission"
Dr. Richard Mushotzky, NASA/GSFC, and JHU/CAS
Note: special date (time TBD):
June 4: "Diffuse EUV Emission from Clusters of Galaxies;
A New Component of Cluster Gas or Something Else?"
(Thur.) Dr. Stu Bowyer, UC Berkeley
Sept. 16: "Do We Understand How Accretion Disks in AGN Radiate?"
Dr. Julian Krolik, JHU/CAS
Sept. 23: "Tilted Accretion Disks in the Active Nuclei of Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Anne Kinney, STScI/JHU
Sept. 30: "FUSE: The Instrument and Its Science Program"
Drs. Bill Oegerle and Ken Sembach, JHU/CAS
Oct. 7: "Status of the HST Advanced Camera for Surveys"
Drs. H. Ford, M. Clampin, Z. Tsvetanov
Oct. 14: "Apache Point Observatory Status Report"
Dr. Alan Uomoto, JHU/CAS
Oct. 21: "Black Holes and The Central Regions of Early Type Galaxies"
Dr. Laura Ferrarese, CalTech
Oct. 28: "Accurate Distances to Galactic Planetary Nebulae"
Dr. Emanuel Vassiliadis,
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Nov. 4: "News from the Space Science Enterprise"
Dr. Chuck Holmes, NASA//HQ
Nov. 11: "Sounding Rocket Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp"
Mr. Jason McPhate, JHU/CAS
"Multispectral Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp with MSX"
Mr. David Kupperman, JHU/APL
Nov. 18: "Gravitational Lens Time Delays and the Hubble Constant"
Dr. Paul L. Schechter, MIT
Nov. 24: "HST Spectroscopy of Helium Rich (pre-) White Dwarfs"
Dr. Stefan Dreizler, Univ. of Tubingen
"Mass-loss Rates from FUV P Cygni Lines in PG1159 Stars"
Dr. Lars Koesterke, Univ. of Tubingen
NOTE: Special Monday Seminar, in rm. 361 at 3:30 p.m.
Nov. 25: "A Proposer's Guide to the AXAF Satellite"
Dr. Richard Mushotzky, NASA/GSFC, and JHU/CAS
(NOTE: To be held in the Schafler Auditorium!)
Dec. 2: "The GTC Project: An Advanced 10m Telescope"
Drs. P. Alvarez and Jose M. Rodriguez Espinosa
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Dec. 9: "Current Research in Interstellar and Circumstellar Problems"
Dr. Tom Hartquist, JHU/CAS Visitor,
Max Planck Institute fuer Extraterrestrische Physik and
Univ. of Leeds
Dec. 16: "Massive Counterrotating Disks in Spiral Galaxies"
Dr. Ani Thakar, JHU/CAS"
Bill Blair (wpb@pha.jhu.edu)