Here is the list of speakers from recent seasons.

Our thanks to each and every one of them.




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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