October 4 | Michael Norman (UC San Diego) When and How did the First Stars Form ? |
October 11 | Scott Burles (University of Chicago) Sharpening the Predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
October 18 | Ann Esin (Caltech) Towards Understanding the Structure of Accretion Flows around Galactic Black Holes |
October 25 | David Lambert (University of Texas) Steps towards Understanding the Death of a Low Mass Star -- Spectroscopic analyses of RV Tauri and R Coronae Borealis Stars |
November 1 | Tony Readhead (Caltech) Cosmic Microwave Background Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager |
November 8 | Neil de Grasse Tyson (Rose/Hayden Planetarium, Director) The Making of the Rose Center for Earth & Space |
November 15 | Dick McCray (University of Colorado) SN1987A: the Birth of a Supernova Remnant |
November 29 | Chung-Pei Ma (University of Pennsylvania) A New Perspective on Cosmological Structure Formation |
Jan. 3 | Geoff Marcy (University of California at Berkeley) The Revolution in Extrasolar Planets (The Third Annual Jesse Greenstein Lecture) |
Jan. 10 | AAS Meeting (San Diego) No colloquium |
Jan. 17 | Donald Lynden-Bell (Cambridge University, England) From Newton to NUT - Space (NUT = Newman, Unti and Tamburino) |
Jan. 24 | Jean Turner (UCLA) Fine Structure in Starbursts: Super Nebulae and Super Star Clusters |
Jan. 31 | Steve Shectman (Carnegie) The Magellan Telescopes |
Feb. 7 | Tsvi Piran (Racah Institute, Israel) Gamma-Rays and the Fireball Model |
Feb. 14 | Doug Lin (U.C.Santa Cruz) Origin and Evolution of Diverse Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
Feb. 21 | Josh Frieman (FNAL/U. of Chicago) Probing the Large-scale structure of the Universe: Early Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
Feb. 28 | Joan Najita (NOAO) From Stars to Super-Planets: the Low-Mass IMF in the Young Cluster IC348 |
March 7, 2001 | Steve Beckwith (Director, Space Telescope Science Institute) From Circumstellar Disks to Exoplanets |
March 14, 2001 | David Chernoff (Cornell University) Demography of PSRs/NS |
April 4 | Penny Sackett (Groningen) A new Era of Microlensing Astrophysics: Cool Jupiters and Cool Stellar Atmospheres |
April 11, 2001 | Tim Heckman (Johns Hopkins University) Starbursts and Their Winds: the Big Picture |
April 18 | Sally Oey (Lowell Obs.) Consequences of Massive Star Feedback in Star-forming Galaxies |
April 25 | George Efstathiou (Cambridge, England) The Role of Supernovae in Galaxy Formation |
May 2 | Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University, Canada) Globular Cluster Formation |
May 9 | John Lattanzio (Monash University, Victoria, Australia The Stellar Evolution Revolution: Nucleosynthesis for Dummies |
May 16 | Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton) All Sky Monitoring for Variability |
May 23 | Vicki Kaspi (McGill University) Diversity Among Young Neutron Stars |
May 30 | Eve Ostriker (University of Maryland) The structure and evolution of molecular clouds: insights from numerical simulations |