January 1999:
| January 11 | Elizabeth Barton (Harvard)
"Tidal Tails, Starbursts and Mergers" |
| January 18 | Bob Rutledge (Caltech)
"Thermal X-ray Spectra of Transient Neutron Stars in Quiescence" |
| January 25 | Henk Hoekstra (Kapteyn Institute)
"Weak Lensing: What One Can Do with HST Mosaics" |
February 1999:
| February 1 | Richard Ellis (IoA)
"Resolved Studies of Distant Galaxies: Addressing the Origin of the Hubble Sequence" |
| February 8 | Kris Stanek (CfA)
"Fixing the Lower Rungs of the Cosmological Distance Ladder" Ben Metcalf (Berkeley) "The Gravitational Lensing of Supernovae and the Nature of Dark Matter" |
| February 15 | Presidents' Day -- Caltech Holiday |
| February 22 | Leonardo Testi (Caltech)
"Young (Proto-)Clusters: an Observational View of the Latest Trend in Star Formation" |
March 1999:
| March 1 | George Djorgovski and Re'em Sari (Caltech)
"The optical afterglow, the redshift and the energetics of the super-bright GRB of 23 January 1999" |
| March 8 | Ben Zuckerman (UCLA)
"Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Martian Micro-organisms, Carl Sagan, and the Keck Telescopes" |
| March 15 | Tom Murphy (Caltech)
"Integral Field Spectroscopy at Palomar" |
| March 22 | Rick Edelson (UCLA)
"Probing the Central Regions of Active Galaxies with X-ray Variability" |
| March 29 | Todd Small (Caltech)
"Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Clustering from z = 0.2 to z = 0.5" |
April 1999:
| April 5 | Ariyeh Maller (UCSC)
"Weighing Spiral Galaxies" |
| April 12 | Christian Wolf (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy)
"Multicolour Classsification and Quasars in the Early Universe" |
| April 19 | Eiichi Egami (Caltech)
"Probing a z~4 Hyperluminous IR Galaxy with a Gravitational Lens" |
| April 26 | Jeremy Mould (Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Obs.)
"Implications of the H0 Key Project for Cosmology" |
May 1999:
| May 3 | Ben Weiner (OCIW)
"Using Barred Galaxies to Probe the Structure of Dark Halos" |
| May 10 | Shardha Jogee (Caltech)
"Molecular Dilemna: To Starburst Or Not To Starburst" |
| May 17 | Bloom/Djorgovski/Kulkarni (Caltech)
"New Results in GRBs: Dusty Hosts, Hypernova and Jets" |
| May 24 | No talk scheduled |
| May 31 | Memorial Day |
July 1999:
| July 30 | Peter Papadopoulos (Leiden)
"CO(4-3) and sub-mm Continuum from Two Powerful High-z Radio Galaxies; Evidence for Massive Mergers" |
August 1999:
| August 2 | Lindsay King (MPA)
"Cluster Mass Profiles from Weak Lensing: Shear vs. Magnification Information" |
| August 20 | Alastair Edge (Durham)
"Molecular Gas in Cooling Flows" |
September 1999:
| September 6 | Labor Day: No talk scheduled. |
| September 13 | Susan Stolovy (Caltech)
Blackening of the Black Sea: Footage of the August 11, 1999 Solar Eclipse" |
| September 20 | No talk scheduled. |
| September 27 | No talk scheduled. |
October 1999:
| October 4 | Daniel Reichart (Univ. of Chicago)
"GRBs as a Probe of the Very High Redshift Universe" |
| October 11 | Columbus Day: No talk scheduled. |
| October 18 | Kim Burtnyk (Australian National University)
"Cosmopolitics: Communicating Your Results to the Public Who Supports You" |
| October 25 | Xiaohui Fan (Princeton)
"High-Redshift Quasars from SDSS" |
November 1999:
| November 1 | Crystal Martin (Caltech)
"Evidence for Secondary Sources of Heating in the Warm Ionized Medium" |
| November 8 | Talk postponed to November 15 |
| November 15 | Robert Brunner (Caltech)
"Science with a Virtual Observatory: The Digital Sky Project" |
| November 22 | Fabian Walter (Caltech)
"The Violent Interstellar Medium of Dwarf Galaxies" |
| November 29 | Pat Cote (Caltech)
"Evidence for the Hierarchical Formation of the Galactic Spheroid" |
December 1999:
| December 6 |
Daniel Kelson (CIW)
"Keck Observations of Galaxy Evolution: First Results of Absorption Line Strengths from z=0.33 to z=0.83" |
| December 13 | Eva Schinnerer (Caltech)
"Bars and Warps Traced by the Molecular Gas in NGC 1068 |
| December 20 | Brian Mason (Caltech)
"An Improved Measurement of H0 from the SZE?" |
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