Here is the list of speakers from recent seasons.

Our thanks to each and every one of them.




2010 - 2011 Season
2010 - 2011 Season Speaker Topic
September 14 Joel Groves - Schlumberger Corporation Oil Field Technology for NASA Missions
October 12 Suzanne Staggs - Princeton University Cosmology and the Microwave Background
November 9 Jerry Lodriguss - astrophotographer Secrets of DSLR Astrophotography
December 14 Bob Vanderbei & J. Richard Gott - Princeton University New Book - "Sizing Up The Universe"
January 11   --  2011 Snow Cancellation .
February 8 Fronefield Crawford III - Franklin & Marshall College New Searches for Old Pulsars
March 8 Tim Brandt - Princeton University Type Ia Supernovae and the Search for Their Progenitors
April 12 Michael Molnar The Star Of Bethlehem
May 10 Khee-Gan Lee - Princeton University Quasars and the Lyman-alpha Forest: A Look into the Cosmic Boom town
June 14 Bill Murrary - AAAP & State Planetarium Meeting will be held at the State Planetarium in Trenton



2007 - 2008 Season
2007 - 2008 Season Speaker Topic
September 11 Scott Tremaine - Institute for Advanced Study Massive Black Holes in the Universe
October 9 Arlin Crotts - Columbia University Transient Lunar Phenomenon
November 13 Edward Belbruno - Princeton University Using Chaos For Solar System Travel
December 11 Edwin Turner - Princeton University Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants, and Beaches
January 8   --  2008 Greg Olsen - GHO Ventures Adventures Aboard the Int'l Space Station
February 12 Jerry Sellwood - Rutgers University The Dark Side of the Universe
March 11 Orsola DeMarco - AMNH: Dept. of Astrophysics Stellar Duets
April 8 Iro Tasitsiomi - Princeton University Topics in Cosmology
May 13 David Hogg - NYU Astrometry.Net
June 14 Member & Guest (only) Picnic and Observing Party Simpson Observatory - Washington Crossing State Park



2006 - 2007 Season
2006 - 2007 Season Speaker Topic
September 12 John Church - AAAP When Ireland was the Center of the Universe
October 10 Therese Kucera - NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center The Sun as seen from SOHO and STEREO
November 14 Al Nagler - Televue Giant Eyepieces that Swallow Spacecraft
December 12 Jim Bell - Cornell University Postcards from Mars
January 9   -   2007 Jim Gunn - Princeton University Cosmology--a 50-year Perspective
February 13 Robert Vanderbei - Princeton University Backyard Astrophotography
February 27 Jonathan Lunine - University of Arizona Methane Lakes & Methane Rain on Titan
March 13 Edgar Choueiri - Princeton University Plasma Propulsion and the Exploration of Space
March 30 Fred Espenak - NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Predicting and Chasing Solar Eclipses
April 10 David Spergel - Princeton University Atacama Cosmology Telescope
May 8 Guy J. Consolmagno - Vatican Observatory God, Astronomy & the Search for Elegance
June 12 Tony Del Genio - NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Science Cassini Mission to Saturn



2005-2006 Season
2005-2006 Season Speaker Topic
September 13 Stephen Gorevan - Honeybee Robotics Mars Rovers: Drilling for Science
October 11 Craig Covault - Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine Adventures in Global Aerospace Coverage
November 8 Mario Livio - Johns Hopkins University   ( BOOK SIGNING ! ) Hubble's Top Ten Scientific Discoveries
December 13 Kimberly Weaver - NASA   ( BOOK SIGNING ! ) New Eyes on the Universe
January 10 - 2006 Peter Rona - Rutgers University Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
February 14 Mary Lou West - Montclair State University How Things Move in Space
March 9 Marc Rayman - JPL  lecture in Friends Center 101 DAWN & Deep Space 1 Missions
March 14 AAAP Members Night  regular Peyton Hall meeting Club Activities for 2006
April 11 Robert Nemiroff - Michigan Technological University Co - Author: Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 9 Michael A'Hearn - University of Maryland Deep Impact: First Look Inside a Comet
June 13 Bill Murray - State Museum Planetarium Trenton Hubble Vision   meeting at Planetarium !



2004-2005 Season
2004-2005 Season Speaker Topic
September 14 Edward Witten - IAS String Theory
October 12, George Bunk - Lockheed Martin Working on the ISS and Shuttle
November 9 Michael Strauss - Princeton University Most Distant Quasars Known
December 14 Michael Carr CCD Imaging Hardware
January 11 - 2005 Robert Vanderbei - Princeton University Search for Terrestial Planets
February 8 Ken Kremer - The Planetary Society Exploring Mars
March 8 Michael J. Laine - LiftPort Group Space Elevator
April 12 Charles Liu - CUNY & Hayden Planetarium Hubble Treasury Project
May 10 Members Night Field Equipment and Imaging
June 14 Don Monticello - Plasma Physics Lab StarQuest



2003-2004 Season
2003-2004 Season Speaker Topic
September 9 Roger Gordon - Author Observing Mars
October 14, Bohdan Paczynski - Princeton University Project OGLE
November 11 Jerry Lodriguss - Author Astrophotography
December 9 Michael S. Mahoney - Princeton University Christian Huygens: Clocking Longitude
January 13 - 2004 Gillian R. Knapp - Princeton University Brown Dwarfs - Finding & Identifying Properties
February 10 Dale E. Gary - New Jersey Institute of Technology New Developments: Solar Radio Science
March 9 Louis Lanzerotti - New Jersey Institute of Technology The Ulysses Spacecraft
April 13 Doug Braun - AAAP Design and Construction of a 10" Dobsonian
May 11 Ernst de Haas - Princeton University How A Little Math Helped The Apollo 13 Astronauts Survive
June 8 Bill Murray - AAAP NJ State Museum & Planetarium



2002-2003 Season
2002-2003 Season Speaker Topic
September 10 Bartosz Pindor - Princeton University Gravitational Lensing
October 8, David Nice - Princeton University The Green Bank Telescope
November 12 Freeman Dyson - Institute for Advanced Study
*(AAAP 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner)
A New Way to Look for Life in Cold Places
December 10 Paul Steinhardt - Princeton University Cyclic Model of the Universe
January 14 Anthony Aguirre - Institute for Advanced Study Critical Study of MOND
February 11 George Dyson - Author   BOOK SIGNING ! Project Orion
March 11 Bill Murray A Plumb Line To The Sun
April 8 Robert Gendler - Astro. Society of Hartford Astroimaging
May 13 David N. Spergel - Princeton University WMAP Results
June 10 Bill Murray NJ State Museum Planetarium



2001 - 2002 Season
2001-2002 Season Speaker Topic
September 11 CANCELLED * * * *
October 9, J. Richard Gott - Princeton University Time Travel in Einstein's Universe
November 13 Xiao Hui Fan - Institute of Advanced Study High-Redshift Quasars
December 11 Carlton Pryor - Rutgers University Globular Clusters & Adaptive Optics
January 8 Philip R. Goode - NJIT Viewing from Big Bear Solar Observatory
February 12 Charles L. Joseph - Rutgers University The VIRGO Project
March 12 Orsola DeMarco - American Museum of Natural History Reborn Stars - Stellar Evolution in Earth Time
April 9 J. Anthony Tyson - Bell Labs, Lucent The Dark Matter Telescope
May 14 Bill Murray - AAAP Contemporary Astrophotography
June 11 William Murray - NJ State Museum Planetarium Celestial Sensations



2000 - 2001 Season
Date
Speaker
Topic
October 10 Bohdan Paczynski - Princeton University Sky Search for New Variable Stars
November 14 Russell Hulse - Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Pulsar Research
December 12 Norman Jarosik - Princeton University Modernizing the 36" at Fitz-Randolph
January 9 Edward Groth - Princeton University The OSETI Project
February 13 Neta Bahcall - Princeton University Will The Universe Expand Forever?
March 13 Jack Gelfand - Princeton University The Flying Dobsonians
April 10 Sara Seager - Institute for Advanced Study Extrasolar Planetary Systems
May 8 Lyman Page - Princeton University Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
June 12 William Murray - NJ State Museum Planetarium From Ursa Major to the Southern Cross

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