2019
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
1/14/2019 | ||
1/21/2019 | ||
1/28/2019 | Jennifer Grier (Planetary Science Institute) | Impact Craters, Astronomy Education, Space Ethics, Lunar Regolith, Science Communication, Science in Writing |
2/4/2019 | Abhijeet Borkar (Astronomy Instittue of the Czech Academy of Sciences) | AGN, Galactic Center, Radio Interferometry |
2/11/2019 | Oliver James Hall (Sun, Stars & Exoplanets, University of Birmingham, UK) | Asteroseismology/Bayesian Statistics |
2/18/2019 | Sam Frampton (University of Leicester) | Interplanetary/ small spacecraft |
2/25/2019 | Henry Throop (Planetary Science Institute) | Planetary Rings, New Horizons / Pluto / Ultima Thule, Outreach, Astronomy in the Developing World — Africa / India |
3/4/2019 | Sarah Schmidt (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)) | Low mass stars and brown dwarfs, magnetic activity, stellar populations |
3/11/2019 | Jessie Dotson (NASA Ames Research Center) | Exoplanets, asteroids, and so on and so forth |
3/18/2019 | Keaton Bell (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) | Stellar variability |
3/25/2019 | Andrew Mann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Young exoplanets and m dwarfs |
4/1/2019 | Haley Wahl (West Virginia University) | Pulsars |
4/8/2019 | Sarah McIntyre (Australian National University) | exoplanets, habitability, astrobiology |
4/15/2019 | Joshua Lothringer (Lunary and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona) | Exoplanet Atmospheres |
4/22/2019 | Gautham Narayan (STScI) | Supernovae, wide-field surveys, big data |
4/29/2019 | Jielai Zhang (Schmidt Science Fellows, In Partnership with the Rhodes Trust; Hosted at the University of Oxford) | Galaxy Evolution, Instrumentation, Low Surface Brightness Observations |
5/06/2019 | Kat Volk (University of Arizona) | planetary science, orbit dynamics, small bodies |
5/13/2019 | Aswin Sekhar (Armagh Observatory and Planetarium) | Meteor Science, Solar System Dynamics |
5/20/2019 | Michael West (Lowell Observatory) | galaxies, galaxy clusters, large-scale structure |
5/27/2019 | Richard Easther (U. Auckland) | Cosmology |
6/03/2019 | Jana Grcevich (Columbia University, Cooper Union, AMNH, Guerilla Science) | Dwarf Galaxies, Planetary Science, Communication |
6/10/2019 | Jana Grcevich (Columbia University, Cooper Union, AMNH, Guerilla Science)/Meg Schwamb (Gemini Observatory) | Dwarf Galaxies, Planetary Science, Communication, Solar System, citizen science, observatory operations |
6/17/2019 | Sarah McIntyre (Australian National University) | |
6/24/2019 | Marcel S. Pawlowski (Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics) | Dwarf galaxies, Local Group, small-scale problems of cosmology, dark matter vs. modified gravity |
7/1/2019 | Thomas Connor (Carnegie Observatories) | Observing at LCO and taking part in the Eclipse. Specialty: Galaxy clusters / high-redshift quasars |
7/8/2019 | ||
7/15/2019 | Kathryn Neugent (University of Washington & Lowell Observatory) | massive stars |
7/22/2019 | Rebecca Larson (University of Texas at Austin) | Reionization Era Galaxies |
7/29/2019 | Rachael Alexandroff (University of Toronto) | AGN and galaxy evolution |
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8/12/2019 | ||
8/19/2019 | ||
8/26/2019 | ||
9/2/2019 | ||
9/9/2019 |
2018
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
1/8/2018 | James Davenport (University of Washington) | Stars, magnetic activity, time domain, surveys, data visualization |
1/15/2018 | John Noonan (University of Arizona/LPL) | UV Observations/Comets |
1/22/2018 | Esther Hanko (Anton Pannekoek Institute) | Outreach |
1/29/2018 | Meg Schwamb (Gemini Observatory) | Kuiper belt objects, planetary science, Mars, wide-field surveys |
2/5/2018 | Katie Brevik (Northwestern University – CIERA) | Compact binary evolution and populations, gravitational waves |
2/12/2018 | James Matthews (University of Oxford) | AGN Outflows and Cosmic rays |
2/19/2018 | Graeme Poole (University of Bristol) | Cosmochemistry, planetary formation, solar nebula and solar system evolution |
2/26/2018 | Geert Barentsen (NASA Ames) | Kepler/K2 |
3/5/2018 | Jillian Scudder (Oberlin College) | galaxy interactions, statistical analysis, multi-wavelength analysis |
3/12/2018 | Emily Rice (CUNY/AMNH) | Brown dwarfs/exoplanets/outreach |
3/19/2018 | René A. Ortega-Minakata (Institute of Astronomy, UNAM (Mexico City)) | Evolution of galaxies, active / star-forming galaxies, IFU, statistics of large surveys, diversity in STEM, outreach and education |
3/26/2018 | Julie Rathbun (PSI) | planetary science/outer planet satellites |
4/2/2018 | Emily Lakdawalla (The Planetary Society) | planetary science, scicomm, advocacy |
4/9/2018 | Michele Bannister (Queen’s University Belfast) | Solar System astronomy |
4/16/2018 | Harriet Brettle (Caltech) | Planetary science (primarily Jupiter and moons) / grad school / public outreach / space industry |
4/23/2018 | Charlotte Angus (University of Southampton) | Supernovae and transient host galaxies |
4/30/2018 | Saramoira Shields (Cornell University) | Instrumentation & Spacecraft |
5/7/2018 | Andy Rivkin (JHU/APL) | Asteroids/Planetary Astronomy |
5/14/2018 | Mary Beth Laychak (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) | public outreach, education |
5/21/2018 | Adina Feinstein (Tufts) | Exoplanets & high-redshift galaxies |
5/28/2018 | Josephine Peters (Oxford) | Galaxy evolution / Radio astronomy |
6/4/2018 | Teddy Kareta (University of Arizona / LPL) | Evolution of Comets and Asteroids |
6/11/2018 | Mia de los Reyes (Caltech) | star formation, dwarf galaxies, galactic archaeology |
6/18/2018 | Heidi Thiemann (Open University) | Astronomy (Specifically stellar variability) |
6/25/2018 | Cathy Olkin (Southwest Research Institute) | Planetary Science/Lucy Mission/New Horizons Mission |
7/2/2018 | Kendall Sullivan (Lowell Observatory (Soon: UT Austin Astronomy)) | Young stars + binary stars |
7/9/2018 | Stephanie Hamilton (University of Michigan) | Solar System astronomy, science communication |
7/16/2018 | Peter Boorman (University of Southampton) | Obscured Supermassive Black Holes |
7/23/2018 | Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) | Exoplanets |
7/30/2018 | Simon Porter (Southwest Research Institute) | Kuiper Belt and Occultations |
8/6/2018 | Emily Hunt (University of Bath) | Mapping the Magellanic clouds with variable stars & Bayesian methods |
8/13/2018 | David Wilson (UT Austin) | White dwarfs and M dwarfs |
8/20/2018 | Gourav Khullar (University of Chicago – Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics) | Galaxy Clusters and Gravitational Lensing |
8/27/2018 | Kovi Rose (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Radio Astronomy/ Supernovae |
9/3/2018 | Bryan Mendez (UC Berkeley) | Education, Outreach, Cultural Astronomy |
9/10/2018 | Laura Mayorga (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | Exoplanets |
9/17/2018 | Steph LaMassa (Space Telescope Science Institute) | AGN |
9/24/2018 | John Wenskovitch (Virginia Tech) | Data visualization, amateur astronomy, outreach |
10/1/2018 | Brian Jackson (Boise State University) | Exoplanet Discovery and Orbital Dynamics |
10/8/2018 | Henry Ngo (NRC Herzberg) | exoplanets, orbit fitting, astro software development, work-life balance |
10/15/2018 | Chris Schaller (Lunar and Planetary Lab, The University of Arizona) | HiRISE and CaSSIS operations planning software |
10/22/2018 | Bruce Macintosh (Stanford) | Extrasolar planets and astronomy policy |
10/29/2018 | Jo Barstow (University College London) | Exoplanet atmospheres |
11/5/2018 | Emma Alexander (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester) | Radio astronomy/ polarisation & magnetism/ radio galaxies |
11/12/2018 | Ward Howard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | Stellar activity, exoplanets, and star-planet interactions |
11/19/2018 | Nicholas Attree (University of Stirling) | Mars InSight thermophysical modelling and comets |
11/26/2018 | Tim Holt (University of Southern Queensland ) | Small body Taxonomy and Dynamics |
12/3/2018 | Paul Byrne (North Carolina State University) | Planetary Geology |
12/10/2018 | Cesare Grava (Southwest Research Institute) | Exospheres/UV & Vis. spectroscopy |
2017
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
1/9/2017 | John Bochanski (Rider University ) | Cool Stars and Galactic Structure |
1/16/2017 | Abigail Stevens (Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam) | Compact objects, X-ray spectral-timing |
1/23/2017 | Steven Rieder (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science) | Computational astrophysics: planets, clusters, large-scale |
1/30/2017 | Jonathan Fortney (UC Santa Cruz) | Exoplanets/Solar System/Brown Dwarfs |
2/6/2017 | Leonard Burtscher (Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial physics / University of Leiden, The Netherlands) | Nearby Active Galaxies / Instrumentation for ground-based telescopes (calibration scientist for E-ELT/METIS) |
2/13/2017 | Fiona H. Panther (Australian National University/CAASTRO) | theoretical high energy astrophysics/supernovae/gamma ray astronomy |
2/20/2017 | Jessica Noviello (Arizona State University) | Planetary Geology/Europa/Asteroids |
2/27/2017 | Joanna Bridge (Pennsylvania State University) | Lyman-alpha emission, galaxy evolution, emission line galaxies |
3/6/2017 | Stephanie Bernard (University of Melbourne) | High-redshift galaxies |
3/13/2017 | Mehmet Alpaslan (NASA Ames Research Center) | Galaxy evolution, large-scale structure of the Universe |
3/20/2017 | Matthew R Francis (Freelance) | Gravitation, black holes, cosmology, astronomy communication |
3/27/2017 | Alexis Lavail (Uppsala University) | Stellar magnetic fields / Instrumentation |
4/3/2017 | Angel Lopez-Sanchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University) | star formation in galaxies / galaxy eveolution / multiwavelength astronomy / amateur astronomy |
4/10/2017 | Ryan Anderson (USGS Astrogeology) | Mars, spectroscopy, programming, geomorphology, etc… |
4/17/2017 | Jennifer Piatek (Central Connecticut State University) | Thermal IR remote sensing / Mars / Accessible Geosci. |
4/24/2017 | James Guillochon (Harvard University) | Black holes, transients, open science |
5/01/2017 | Angela Zalucha (SETI Institute) | Planetary atmospheres |
5/08/2017 | Franco Vazza (Radio Astronomy Institute, Bologna & Hamburg University) | cosmological simulations, non-thermal processes in large-scale structures |
5/15/2017 | Michael W. Busch (SETI Institute) | Asteroids |
5/22/2017 | Karen Masters (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) | Extragalactic astronomy, citizen science. |
5/29/2017 | Nathalie Ouellette (Queen’s University) | Galaxy evolution and kinematics in clusters, science communication |
6/5/2017 | Zach Pace (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Galaxy evolution (local universe), integral-field spectroscopy, machine-learning applications |
6/12/2017 | Will Armentrout (West Virginia University) | Galactic High-Mass Star Formation, HII Regions |
6/19/2017 | Meenakshi Wadhwa (Arizona State University) | Planetary Materials/Solar System/Rocky Planets |
6/26/2017 | Nick Attree (Le Laboratoire D’astrophysique De Marseille) | Planetary Science / Comets / Rosetta Data Analysis |
7/3/2017 | Simon Porter (SwRI) | New Horizons, Pluto |
7/10/2017 | Sara Mazrouei (University of Toronto) | Planetary Science/ Moon |
7/17/2017 | Ward Howard (UNC Chapel Hill) | Stellar Activity & Planetary Habitability |
7/24/2017 | Quanzhi Ye (Caltech) | Asteroids, comets, meteors |
7/31/2017 | Héctor Vives-Arias (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias / Universidad de Valencia) | AGNs, Gravitational Lensing, Dark Matter |
8/7/2017 | Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) | Exoplanets |
8/14/2017 | Tyler Nordgren (University of Redlands) | Solar eclipse author and artist |
8/21/2017 | Benoît Noyelles (University of Namur) | Celestial Mechanics/Satellites/Mercury |
8/28/2017 | Federica Binaco (NYU) | Transients – especially supernovae |
9/4/2017 | Ben Montet (University of Chicago) | Planetary Systems and their Stars |
9/11/2017 | Benne Holwerda (University of Louisville) | extragalactic astronomy |
9/18/2017 | Emily Sandford (Columbia University) | Machine learning applied to exoplanetary systems |
9/25/2017 | Rachael Ainsworth (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester) | Jets from young stars / radio interferometry / open science |
10/02/2017 | Mario Jurić (University of Washington / LSST) | Massive Sky Surveys & Big Data in Astronomy |
10/09/2017 | Helen Maynard-Casely (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) | Planetary Science (Icy moon materials) |
10/16/2017 | Matt Russo (Canadain Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) | Protoplanetary Disks/Sonification |
10/23/2017 | Matt Taylor (Gemini Observatory) | extragalactic globular cluster/satellite systems |
10/30/2017 | Larry Nittler (Carnegie Institution of Washington) | Meteorites, presolar grains, Mercury, geoechemical remote sensing |
11/6/2017 | Bella Boulderstone (University of Southampton) | Active Galactic Nuclei, reverberation mapping of the dusty torus. |
11/13/2017 | Coel Hellier (Keele University) | Exoplanets |
11/20/2017 | Christa Van Laerhoven (University of British Columbia (UBC)) | Orbital dynamics, Kuiper Belt |
11/27/2017 | Stephanie Juneau (NOAO) | Extragalactic astronomy: cosmic history of galaxies and supermassive black holes; +data science applied to astronomy (NOAO Data Lab) |
12/4/2017 | JJ Eldridge (University of Auckland) | Stars, supernovae and galaxies. |
12/11/2017 | Ira Thorpe (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) | Space-based Gravitational Wave Observatory (LISA) |
2016
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
1/4/2016 | Nicholas Heavens (Hampton University) | planetary atmospheres, Mars |
1/11/2016 | Henry Ngo (Caltech) | Exoplanets/Direct Imaging/Dynamics |
1/18/2016 | Jeyhan Kartaltepe (RIT) | Galaxy Evolution |
1/25/2016 | Hanno Rein (University of Toronto) | Dynamics |
2/1/2016 | Mark Marley (NASA Ames Research Center) | exoplanet/brown dwarf atmospheres |
2/8/2016 | Sarah Milkovich (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech) | Science System Engineering/Mission operations/Mars polar geology |
2/15/2016 | Steve Crawford (South African Astronomical Observatory) | star-bursting galaxies/galaxy clusters/software/optical observing/telescopes |
2/22/2016 | Matthew Kenworthy (Leiden Observatory) | Coronagraphs/exoplanet imaging/exoring systems |
2/29/2016 | Erika Nesvold (Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial Magnetism) | Disk and Exoplanet Dynamics |
3/7/2016 | Meg Schwamb (ASIAA) | planetary astronomy, Kuiper belt, Mars, citizen science |
3/14/2016 | Emily Lakdawalla (The Planetary Society) | science writing |
3/21/2016 | Daniel Cotton (University of New South Wales, Astrophysics) | Planetary Atmospheres/Stellar Polarimetry |
3/28/2016 | Tom Robitaille | Open Science and Scientific Software |
4/4/2016 | Jessie Christiansen (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech) | Exoplanets |
4/11/2016 | Bhairavi Shankar (Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration) | Planetary surfaces, GIS, Data Processing, Moon |
4/18/2016 | Edward Gomez (LCOGT) | NEOs, coding, education & outreach |
4/25/2016 | Michele Bannister (University of Victoria) | TNOs |
5/2/2016 | Jennifer Johnson (Ohio State University) | Milky Way formation, Galactic Chemical Evolution |
5/9/2016 | Angel Lopez-Sanchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University) | star formation in galaxies / galaxy eveolution / multiwavelength astronomy / amateur astronomy |
5/16/2016 | Michael Busch (SETI Institute) | Near-Earth Asteroids |
5/23/2016 | Andy Rivkin (JHU/APL) | Asteroids/Planetary Astronomy |
5/30/2016 | John Debes (STScI) | Exoplanets, Dust, and White Dwarfs |
6/6/2016 | Arianna Piccialli (LESIA/Observatoire de Paris) | Planetary Atmospheres |
6/13/2016 | Tom Kitching (UCL MSSL) | Cosmology, Weak Lensing |
6/20/2016 | Rachael Livermore (University of Texas at Austin) | Galaxy evolution, high redshift, gravitational lensing |
6/27/2016 | Abhijeet Borkar (University of Cologne) | Galactic Center/SMBHs/Radio Astronomy |
7/4/2016 | Jen Gupta (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) | Outreach/Public Engagement, AGN |
7/11/2016 | Joshua Peek (STScI / Columbia) | ISM / CGM |
7/18/2016 | Christine Corbett Moran (University of Chicago) | Cosmology, Computational Astrophysics |
7/25/2016 | Kat Volk (University of Arizona) | Kuiper Belt, dynamics |
8/1/2016 | James Sprinks (University of Nottingham) | Citizen Science – Planetary Science |
8/8/2016 | Andreea Font (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University) | Galaxy formation/Cosmological Simulations |
8/15/2016 | Daniel Majaess (Mount Saint Vincent & Saint Mary’s Universities) | cosmic distance scale / exoplanets |
8/22/2016 | JJ Eldridge ( University of Auckland) | Stellar evolution, supernovae, binary stars, stellar population and spectral synthesis. |
8/29/2016 | Jennifer Sobeck (University of Virginia, SDSS/APOGEE-2) | Stellar Populations/Galactic Chemodynamics |
9/5/2016 | Benne Holwerda (Leiden Observatory) | dust in galaxies, HI deep field |
9/12/2016 | Maria Womack (University of South Florida) | comets, exoplanets |
9/19/2016 | Christy Caudill (Western University, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration) | Martian and terrestrial impact cratering |
9/26/2016 | Chris Lintott (Oxford/Zooniverse/AAS Journals) | galaxies/citizen science |
10/3/2016 | Mike Alexandersen (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) | Solar System astronomy, planetary science, dynamics |
10/10/2016 | Justyn Campbell-White (University of Kent) | Massive stars, Infrared Bubbles, ISM, Shape Statistics |
10/17/2016 | Jen Blank (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science / NASA Ames) | Planetary Science/Mars/Astrobiology |
10/24/2016 | Emily Levesque (University of Washington) | Massive stars, supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, star-forming galaxies |
10/31/2016 | Michael West (Lowell Observatory) | galaxies, galaxy clusters, globular clusters, large-scale structure of the universe |
11/7/2016 | Anna Weigel (ETH Zurich) | Black Holes & Galaxy Evolution |
11/14/2016 | Duncan Forgan (University of St Andrews) | Planet Formation / Astrobiology / SETI |
11/21/2016 | Jeffrey Simpson (Australian Astronomical Observatory) | cosmic distance scale / exoplanets |
11/28/2016 | Sarah Jane Schmidt (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)) | stellar magnetic activity, low mass stars, brown dwarfs |
12/05/2016 | Molly Peeples (STScI) | galaxies and space telescopes |
12/12/2016 | Mika McKinnon (freelance) | planetary science, science communication |
2015
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
01/05/2015 | Reserved for AAS meeting | Reserved for AAS meeting |
01/12/2015 | Peter Maksym (University of Alabama) | Tidal Flares, Voorwerpjes, and a variety of other Extragalactic |
01/19/2015 | Moses Milazzo | Planetary Volcanology/Remote Sensing/Mission Operations/Education |
01/26/2015 | Julie Rathbun (PSI/University of Redlands) | Planetary Science, Io’s volcanoes |
02/02/2015 | Jay Strader (Michigan State University) | Globular Clusters/Black Holes |
02/09/2015 | Joanna Barstow (University of Oxford) | Exoplanet + solar system atmospheres |
02/16/2015 | Molly Peeples (STScI) | Galaxies! |
02/23/2015 | Phil Rosenfield (University of Padua) | Stellar Evolution/Stellar Populations/Nearby Galaxies |
03/02/2015 | Matthieu Bethermin (ESO Garching) | Galaxy evolution |
03/09/2015 | Arna Karick (Swinburne University of Technology) | Galaxy Formation/Coma Cluster/Galaxy Structure/Dwarf Galaxies |
03/16/2015 | Karina Voggel (ESO) | UCDs and Dwarf Galaxies |
03/23/2015 | Niall Deacon (University of Hertfordshire) | Brown dwarfs and low mass stars |
03/30/2015 | Hugh Osborn (University of Warwick) | Exoplanet detection |
04/06/2015 | Barbara Cohen (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) | Moon, Mars, meteorites |
04/13/2015 | Emily Rice (CUNY/AMNH) | brown dwarfs, low mass stars, exoplanets |
04/20/2015 | Gal Sarid (FSI, U. of Central Florida) | minor bodies, planetary formation, planetary physics |
04/27/2015 | Fred Calef III (JPL-Caltech) | Planetary mappping, small rayed impact craters, Mars Geology, MSL |
05/04/2015 | Cayman Unterborn ( Ohio State University) | Extrasolar Planet Geology & Habitability |
05/11/2015 | Michael West (Maria Mitchell Observatory) | galaxies, galaxy clusters, globular clusters, outreach |
05/18/2015 | Kyle Willett (University of Minnesota) | galaxy structure, citizen science, megamasers |
05/25/2015 | Nancy Hine (University of Hertfordshire) | High redshift galaxies |
06/01/2015 | David Sliski (University of Pennsylvania) | Exoplanets |
06/08/2015 | Angel Lopez-Sanchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory [AAO] / Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) | Star formation in galaxies using multiwavelength data |
06/15/2015 | Rachael Livermore (University of Texas at Austin) | High-z galaxies, gravitational lensing |
06/22/2015 | Edgard Rivera-Valentin (Arecibo Observatory) | Following the water from Mercury to the icy satellites, Astrobiology, Planetary Science |
06/29/2015 | Megan Bruck Syal (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | Impact Cratering and Planetary Defense |
07/06/2015 | Michael Busch (SETI Institute) | Near-Earth Asteroids |
07/13/2015 | Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield) | Massive stars |
07/20/2015 | Tanya Harrison (Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, University of Western Ontario) | Mars geomorphology and mission ops |
07/27/2015 | Adam Becker (Freelance Astrophysicist) | Early universe cosmology; science journalism; open science; data visualization |
08/03/2015 | Mark Lacy (NRAO) | Radio astronomy/high redshift galaxies |
08/10/2015 | Erin Ryan (University of Maryland) | Main Belt Asteroids |
08/17/2015 | Toby Brown (Swinburne University of Technology) | Galaxy evolution, galaxy structure, atomic hydrogen |
08/24/2015 | Ivy Wong (ICRAR/University of Western Australia) | AGN, galaxy evolution, how galaxies start and stop forming stars, radio astronomy, citizen science |
08/31/2015 | Peter K. G. Williams (Harvard University) | Radio astronomy, magnetism in ultracool stars & bron dwarfs |
09/07/2015 | John O’Meara (Saint Michael’s College) | intergalactic medium (IGM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and cosmology via quasar absorption line studies |
09/14/2015 | Natalie Gosnell (University of Texas at Austin) | Binary stars, open clusters, blue stragglers |
09/21/2015 | Meredith Rawls (New Mexico State University) | Binary Stars |
09/28/2015 | Benne Holwerda (Leiden Observatory) | Dust in Galaxies, occulting galaxies, star/galaxy separation, Nearby Galaxies, Galaxy Morphology |
10/05/2015 | Tyler Nordgren (University of Redlands) | Light pollution/night sky preservation |
10/12/2015 | Paul Sutter (INAF/OSU) | Large Scale Structure/CMB/Cosmic Dawn |
10/19/2015 | Bruno Merin (ESAC/ESA) | Protoplanetary and transitional disks, exoplanets, space astronomy |
10/26/2015 | Amy Barr Mlinar (RIAMD, Inc) | planetary satellites |
11/02/2015 | Jonathan Nichols (University of Leicester) | Magnetospheres and auroras of Jupiter, Saturn and exoplanets |
11/09/2015 | J. Brian Balta (University of Pittsburgh) | Meteorites, Geology/Geochemistry, Petrology |
11/16/2015 | Jane Rigby (NASA) | Extragalactic Astrophysics |
11/23/2015 | Gautham Narayan (NOAO/UA) | Supernovae, dark energy, cosmology, variables and explosive transients |
11/30/2015 | Elaina Hyde (University of Western Sydney) | Galactic Archaeology |
12/07/2015 | Richard Scalzo (University of Sydney) | Supernovae, Data Science |
12/14/2015 | Meg Rosenburg | Planetary Science, especially the Moon and impact cratering, and science communication |
2014
Week Beginning | Who they are | What they do |
01/13/2014 His week on astrotweeps | Niall Deacon (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) | Studying failed stars called brown dwarfs |
01/20/2014 His week on astrotweeps | Demitri Muna(Ohio State University) | galaxy evolution,Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SciCoder, |
01/27/2014 Her week on astrotweeps | Meg Schwamb (Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica -ASIAA) | extrasolar planets, citizen science, Kuiper belt, Planet Hunters, Planet Four |
02/03/2014 His week on astrotweeps | Kevin Schawinski (ETH Zurich) | galaxy morphology, galaxy evolution, black holes, Galaxy Zoo |
02/10/2014 His week on astrotweeps | Andy Rivkin (JHU/APL) | asteroids |
02/17/2014Her week on astrotweeps | Sarah Hörst (University of Colorado) | Planetary Atmospheres |
02/24/2014Her week on astrotweeps | Kristin Block (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab) | Spacecraft operations, Science ops for HiRISE aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary science |
03/03/2014His week on astrotweeps | Bill Keel (University of Alabama) | Galaxy morphology, galaxy evolution, SARA, Galaxy Zoo |
03/10/2014 | Haley Gomez (Cardiff University) | Space dust |
03/17/2014 His week on astrotweeps | David Rodriguez (Universidad de Chile) | low-mass stars in nearby young moving groups |
03/24/2014 Her week on astrotweeps | Laura Vican (UCLA) | Debris disks around stars like the Sun |
03/31/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Lauren Weiss (UC Berkeley) | exoplanets, multi-planet systems, planetary dynamics, planetary compositions, spectroscopy |
04/07/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Jonathan Fortney (UC Santa Cruz) | Exoplanets, planetary atmospheres and interiors |
04/14/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Breann Sitarski (UCLA) | Galactic Center, Adaptive Optics, Protoplanetary Disk |
04/21/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Sarah Tuttle (McDonald Observatory) | Instrumentalist, galaxy evolution |
04/28/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Nicole Gugliucci (CosmoQuest,SIUE) | citizen science, radio astronomy, education and public outreach |
05/05/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Rodolfo Montez Jr. (Vanderbilt University) | High energy emission from evolved stars; planetary nebulae, agb stars, and supergiants |
05/12/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Alex Hagen (Penn State) | high-z galaxies, lyman alpha emitters |
05/19/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Robert Fisher (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) | Computational Astrophysics. Type Ia Supernovae. Star Formation and the ISM. Astrochemistry. |
05/26/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Amy Barr (Brown University) | Icy satellites, solid planetary interiors, formation of planetary satellites |
06/02/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Branden Allen (Harvard College Observatory) | X-Ray / γ-Ray Instrumentation Development, Near Earth Objects, Cosmic Rays, Compact Objects |
06/09/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Michael Rutkowski (University of Minnesota ) | Galaxy evolution, galaxy assembly |
06/16/2014 (Her week on astrotweeps) | Michelle Collins (MPIA) | Andromeda, the Milky Way and their dwarf galaxies |
06/23/2014 (His week on astrotweeps) | Andy Puckett (Columbus State University) | Asteroids: orbits, uncertainties, photometry, KBOs, discovery, SDSS data-mining, education |
06/30/2014 | Alessondra Springmann (Arecibo Observatory) | Asteroids, planetary, radar |
07/07/2014 | Jeyhan Kartaltepe (NOAO) | Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy Evolution |
07/14/2014 | Nicholas Heavens (Hampton University) | Planetary atmospheres |
07/21/2014 | Jorge I. Zuluaga (Universidad de Antioquia) | Planetary Magnetic Fields, Exoplanets and Exomoons Habitability |
07/28/2014 | K-Michael Aye (UCLA) [Phil Rosenfield (University of Padua)] | Mars, Moon, remote sensing [Stellar Evolution/Stellar Populations/Nearby Galaxies] |
08/04/2014 | Chris Lintott (University of Oxford/Zooniverse) | Citizen Science, Zooniverse |
08/11/2014 | Jennifer Grier (Planetary Science Institute) | Impact craters, surface ages, multispectral images of terrestrial planets |
08/18/2014 | J. Brian Balta (University of Tennessee) | Meteorites! |
08/25/2014 | Tanya Urrutia (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, Germany) | Quasars / Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) |
09/01/2014 | John Gizis (University of Delaware) | Very-Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs |
09/08/2014 | Karen Masters (Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) | Galaxies, galaxy morphology, surveys, Galaxy Zoo, Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
09/15/2014 | Laura Watkins (STScI) | Globular clusters, dynamical modelling, stellar kinematics |
09/22/2014 | Julie Rathbun (PSI/University of Redlands) | Planetary Science, Io’s volcanoes |
09/29/2014 | Tom Rice (University of Michigan) | Planet Formation, Astrobiology |
10/06/2014 | Edward Gomez (Las Cumbres Observatory) | Robotic telescopes |
10/13/2014 | Amanda Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory [AAO]) | Galaxy Formation and Evolution |
10/20/2014 | Roy Kilgard (Wesleyan University) | X-ray binaries, astronomy in science fiction |
10/27/2014 | Doug Burke (Chandra X-ray Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) | Software development, X-ray Astronomy, Galaxy Clusters |
11/03/2014 | Jennifer L. Hoffman (University of Denver) | Supernovae, massive stars, women in science |
11/10/2014 | Dave Jones (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias) | Binary star evolution |
11/17/2014 | Christa Van Laerhoven (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) | orbital dynamics, exoplanets |
11/24/2014 | Chris Tibbs (ESO) | Galactic Interstellar Medium (ISM) |
12/01/2014 | Luke Dones (Southwest Research Institute) | solar system dynamics, planetary rings, impacts |
12/08/2014 | Jayne Birkby (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | Exoplanet atmospheres, high-resolution spectroscopy, M-dwarfs |
12/15/2014 | Nathaniel Ross (UCLA) | AGN/Galaxy Evolution |
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