| 2022 - 2023 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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June 13, 2023 |
Dr. Jacob Hamer, Assistant Curator, Planetarium Educator, NJ State Museum |
60 Years of Discoveries with the Arecibo Observatory |
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May 9, 2023 |
Alain Maury, Hybrid, Asteroid Discoverer, Observatory Operator and Guide |
The Hunt for Near Earth Asteroids |
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April 11, 2023 |
Ira Polans, Hybrid, Former Program Chair AAAP |
The Sun Dagger: Chaco Canyon And The Anasazi (Film) |
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March 14, 2023 |
Joseph DePasquale, Hybrid, Senior Science Visuals Developer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) |
Unfolding the Infrared Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope |
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Feb 14, 2023 |
John C. Church, Hybrid, Retired Research Scientist, Long Time AAAP Member |
Cosmic Clockwork: Occultations, Eclipses, and Transits |
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Jan 10, 2023 |
Alyssa Pagan, Hybrid, Science Visuals Developer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) |
The Art and Science of Visualizing Webb Imagery |
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Dec 13, 2022 |
Joshua Winn, Hybrid, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University |
Exoplanets: Science and Science Fiction |
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Nov 8, 2022 |
Michael Strauss, Hybrid, Professor and Chair, Department of Astrophysics, Princeton University |
The First Black Holes in the Universe: Searching for the Highest-Redshift Quasars |
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Oct 11, 2022 |
Avi Loeb, online via Zoom, Harvard University |
The Galileo Project: In Search of Technological Interstellar Objects |
| 2021 - 2022 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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September 13, 2022 |
Michael DiMario, PhD Founder and CEO, Astrum Systems |
Pluto Precovery and the Resurrection of Yerkes Observatory |
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Lisa Ann Fanning amateur Astronomer |
Astronomical Events and Bird Behavior |
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June 14, 2022 |
Bill Murray State Planetarium |
Touch the Stars |
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May 10, 2022 |
Robert J. Vanderbei, online via Zoom, Princeton University |
Welcome to the Universe in 3D |
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April 12, 2022 |
Dr. Paul Daniels, online via Zoom, FRAS President, Federation of Astronomical Societies |
The Mega-Constellation Threat |
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March 08, 2022 |
Dr. Roseanne Di Stefano, online via Zoom, Senior Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. |
Planets in External Galaxies |
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February 08, 2022 |
Dr. Christopher Spalding, online via Zoom, 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences. |
Upside-down, Inside-out Solar Systems |
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January 11, 2022 |
Dr. Robert Williams, online via Zoom, Astronomer Emeritus at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). |
Observing Galaxy Formation with the Hubble Space Telescope |
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December 14, 2021 |
Dr. Joleen Carlberg, online via Zoom, STIS Branch Manager at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) |
The Fiery Fate of Exoplanets |
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November 9, 2021 |
Dr. Jesus Rivera, online via Zoom, Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Swarthmore College |
Beyond the Visible Universe |
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October 12, 2021 |
Dr. Tansu Daylan, online via Zoom, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |
Exoplanets Transiting Faint Stars in the TESS Full Frame Images |
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September 14, 2021 |
Prof. Emily Levesque, online via Zoom, Professor at University of Washington |
The Last Stargazers |
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May 11, 2021 |
Dr. Alexander Hayes, online via Zoom, Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science. |
Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System |
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April 13, 2021 |
Dr. Alexandra Krull Davatzes, online via Zoom, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Temple University |
Precambrian Meteor Impacts and Implications for Early Earth |
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March 9, 2021 |
Dr. Keivan Stassun, online via Zoom, Professor of Astrophysics at Vanderbilt University |
The Royal Road: Eclipses and Transits in the Era of Gaia and TESS |
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February 9, 2021 |
Dr. Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson, online via Zoom, Princeton University Postdoc |
Searching for New Worlds with Next-generation Astronomical Instruments |
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January 12, 2021 |
Dr. John Church, online via Zoom, Member AAAP, Author, Chemist |
The Fourth Condition: A Spyglass Drama |
| 2019 - 2020 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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December 8, 2020 |
Dr. Kimberly Arcand, online via Zoom, Visualization and Emerging Technology Lead for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory |
Two Decades Plus with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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November 10, 2020 |
Nick Kanas, MD, online via Zoom, Amateur astronomer |
Celestial Mapping and the Modern Amateur Astronomer |
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October 13, 2020 |
Dr. Alexander R. Jones online via Zoom, NYU |
The Antikythera Mechanism and Ancient Greek Astronomy |
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September 8, 2020 |
Dr. Adam Burrows online via Zoom, Princeton University |
Core-Collapse Supernova Theory |
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June 9, 2020 |
William Murray online via Zoom, Club member and Planetarium host |
How the Stars Got Their Names |
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May 12, 2020 |
Robert Vanderbei online via Zoom, Princeton University Professor |
Astro Dynamics |
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April 14, 2020 |
Canceled due to Covid-19 |
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March 10, 2020 |
Canceled due to Covid-19 |
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February 11, 2020 |
David J. McComas, Princeton University Vice President for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences. |
Parker Solar Probe’s Historic First Passages by the Sun |
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January 14, 2020 |
Dr. Bin Chen, Associate Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. |
Eyeing the Sun: Our Nearest Star |
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December 10, 2019 |
Patrick Crumley, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University |
Gamma-ray Bursts: Unraveling the mystery of the universe’s brightest explosions |
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November 12, 2019 |
Joshua Winn, Professor, Princeton University. |
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite |
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October 8, 2019 |
John Church, Chemist and AAAP member |
When Ireland Was the Center of the Universe |
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September 10, 2019 |
Rachel Beaton, Research Fellow, Princeton University |
Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant |
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| 2018 - 2019 | Speaker | Topic | ||
June 11, 2019 |
William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show |
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May 14, 2019 |
James Lee Chen Author |
On his book How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites. |
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April 09, 2019 |
Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin |
On their book THE POPE OF PHYSICS: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. |
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March 12, 2019 |
Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study |
Pluto, Sedna, Planet X, the Oort cloud, and Oumuamua: a report on the outer fringes of the solar system. |
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February 12, 2019 |
Meeting Canceled |
Speaker Unavailability |
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January 8, 2019 |
Frank Reed |
“Celestial Navigation: History and Future” |
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December 8, 2018 |
Meeting Canceled |
Speaker Unavailability |
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November 13, 2018 |
Bob Simcoe Harvard University |
“DASCH (Digital Access to a Sky Century @Harvard” |
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October 9, 2018 |
Dr. Jack Hughes Rutgers University |
“Stellar Nucleosynthesis” |
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September 11, 2018 |
Robert Vanderbei Princeton University |
“Spectroscopy for the Amateur Astrophotographer” |
| 2017 - 2018 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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June 13, 2018 |
William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show |
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May 8, 2018 |
Dr. James Lowenthal Smith College |
“Stalking the most luminous galaxies in the Universe with Hubble and the Large Millimeter Telescope” |
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April 10, 2018 |
Frans Pretorius Princeton University |
“LIGO and the Extreme Side of Gravity” |
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March 13, 2018 |
Ed Turner Princeton University |
“The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative: A “Funded” Interstellar Flight Project” |
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February 13, 2018 |
Paul Halpern |
“The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality” |
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January 9, 2018 |
Michael D. Lemonick |
“The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos” |
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December 12, 2017 |
William Murray |
“The Life and Legacy of Charles Messier” |
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November 14, 2017 |
James Chen |
“Astronomy for Older Eyes” |
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October 10, 2017 |
Arshad Jilani & Rex A Parker |
“The AAAP’s 2017 Total Solar Eclipse Trip to Monmouth, OR” & "Astro-Imaging with Skynet” |
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September 12, 2017 |
Dr. Josh Winn Princeton University |
“Strange New Worlds” of exoplanets |
| 2016 - 2017 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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June 13, 2017 |
William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show |
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May 9, 2017 |
Dr. Andrew Baker Rutgers University |
Dense Gas in Distant Dusty Galaxies |
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April 11, 2017 |
Dava Sobel Author of "Longitude" |
Latest book "The Glass Universe" |
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March 14, 2017 |
Meeting canceled Stormy weather |
Heavy rains and thunder storms. |
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February 14, 2017 |
Meeting canceled Valentine's Day |
To avoid explosions at home. |
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January 10, 2017 |
Dr. Ondrej Pejcha, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |
Explosions in the sky |
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December 13, 2016 |
Dr. Eric Gawisere, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers Univ. |
The Other 95%: Revealing the Dark Universe |
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November 8, 2016 |
Dr. James Stone, Chair of Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton Univ. |
From accreting black holes to merging galaxies: using computers to study astrophysics |
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October 11, 2016 |
Dr. Steven K. Korotky, Senior Research Scientist at Bell Laboratories |
Restoration of the 6-1/2 Inch Prin Telescope of the Daniel S. Schanck Observatory |
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eptember 13, 2016 |
Dr. Jia Liu, Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow |
Neutrinos: Their discovery, detection, and future prospects |
| 2015 - 2016 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 14, 2016 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 10, 2016 |
J. Richard Gott, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |
The Cosmic Web - Mysterious Architecture of the Universe |
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April 12, 2016 |
James L. Green, Director Planetary Science, NASA |
New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X |
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March 8, 2016 |
Prof. Neta A. Bahcall, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University |
The Dark Side of the Universe |
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February 9, 2016 |
David Gaynes, Award-winning Filmmaker |
Saving Hubble |
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January 12, 2016 |
Frank O'Brien, Database Administrator |
Navigating to the Moon: a View from the Apollo Guidance Computer |
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December 8, 2015 |
Rex Parker, Director, AAAP |
Tour of USNO and Smithsonian Air and Space, Washington |
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November 10, 2015 |
Paul Halpern, Professor of Physics University of the Sciences in Philadelphia & author |
Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger: From Seeking Unity in the Cosmos to Battling in the Press |
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October 13, 2015 |
Scott Nammacher, Amateur Astronomer |
Observatory Design and Astrophotography: One Person’s Approach |
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September 8, 2015 |
Dr. Paul Witta, TCNJ Physics Department Chair |
Measuring and Modeling Variability in Quasars and Blazars |
| 2014 - 2015 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 9, 2015 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 12, 2015 |
Tim Morton, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
The Astronishing Diversity of Planets |
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April 14, 2015 |
Luke Hovey, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University |
Supernovae Remnants |
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March 10, 2015 |
Andy Golding, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Supermassive Black Holes |
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February 10, 2015 |
Gene Ramsey, AAAP Observatory Co-Chair |
Twenty Years of Astronomy Tips and Tricks |
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January 13, 2015 |
Alan Hirschfeld, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
From Backyard to Mountaintop: The Adventures of History's Best Worst Telescope |
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December 9, 2014 |
Vera Gluscevic, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
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November 12, 2014 |
Steve Mazlin, Astrophotographer |
Fourth Dimensional Astroimaging |
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October 14, 2014 |
Ken Kremer, NASA Ambassador |
The Future of America’s Human Spaceflight Program |
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September 9, 2014 |
Aram Friedman, Ansible Technologies |
Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii |
| 2013 - 2014 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 9, 2015 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 14, 2014 |
Neta Bahcall, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
The Dark Matter |
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April 8, 2014 |
Ken Kremer, Gene Ramsey and Robert Vanderbei |
Wallops Flight Facility, Sky Safari, Snowflake Macrophotography |
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March 11, 2014 |
Ted Blank, International Occultation Timing Association |
Chasing Shadows for Planetary Science |
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February 11, 2014 |
Craig Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin |
Type IA Supernovae |
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January 14, 2014 |
Derrick Piits, Joel N. Bloom Observatory, Dartmouth |
Franklin Institute TMT and the Galileoscope |
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December 10, 2013 |
No Meeting |
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November 12, 2013 |
Rex Parker, AAAP |
Galaxies, Comets, and Pixels from the High Desert |
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October 8, 2013 |
Ken Kremer, NASA Ambassador |
NASA’s LADEE and Cygnus Blast Off from Virginia |
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September 10, 2013 |
Clayton Myers, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab |
The Quest to Understand the Sun and the Space Weather It Produces |
| 2012 - 2013 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 11, 2013 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 11, 2013 |
J. Richard Gott, David Spergel, Lisa Kaltenegger, Freeman Dyson |
50th Anniversary Celebration Panel - Is Anyone Else Out There? |
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April 9, 2013 |
Michael Lemonick, Author |
Mirror Earths |
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March 12, 2013 |
Rachel Somerville, Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Dept. |
The Intertwined Lives of Galaxies and Their Supermassive Black Holes |
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February 4, 2013 |
James Green, Director of Planetary Science, NASA |
The Revolution in Planetary Science |
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January 8, 2013 |
Jenny Green, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Tiny but Powerful: the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes |
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December 11, 2012 |
Ken Kremer, NASA Ambassador |
Curiosity and the Search for Life on Mars in 3D |
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November 13, 2012 |
Renee Hlozak, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Modern Cosmology and the BuildingBlocks of the Universe |
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October 9, 2012 |
Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Thermal Effect |
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September 12, 2012 |
David Spergel, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Illuminating the Evolution of the Universe |
| 2011 - 2012 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 8, 2012 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 10, 2012 |
Mario Livio, Hubble Space Science Institute |
Acheivements of the Hubble Space Telescope |
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April 11, 2012 |
Greg Matloff, NY City College of Technology |
Biosphere Extension |
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March 14, 2012 |
Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania |
Modern Cosmology and the BuildingBlocks of the Universe |
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February 14, 2012 |
Paul Steinhardt, Institute for Advanced Study |
Inflationary Cosmology on Trial |
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January 11, 2012 |
Michael Shara, Columbia University |
Novae and Type IA Supernovae |
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December 13, 2011 |
Gaspar Bakos, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Hungarian Automated Telescope Network |
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November 8, 2011 |
Ken Kremer, NASA Ambassador |
Atlantis, The End of America’s Shuttle Program and What’s Beyond for NASA |
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October 12, 2011 |
Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study |
The Search for Life in the Solar System |
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September 14, 2011 |
Jill Knapp, Princeton Astrophysics Department |
Cosmology |
| 2010 - 2011 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 14, 2011 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 10, 2011 |
Khee-Gan Lee, Princeton University |
Quasars and the Lyman-alpha Forest: A Look into the Cosmic Boom town |
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April 12, 2011 |
Michael Molnar |
The Star Of Bethlehem |
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March 8, 2011 |
Tim Brandt, Princeton University |
Type Ia Supernovae and the Search for Their Progenitors |
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February 8, 2014 |
Fronefield Crawford III, Franklin & Marshall College |
New Searches for Old Pulsars |
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January 11, 2011 |
Snow cancellation |
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December 14, 2010 |
Bob Vanderbei & J. Richard Gott Princeton University |
New Book - "Sizing Up The Universe" |
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November 9, 2010 |
Jerry Lodriguss, Astrophotographer |
Secrets of DSLR Astrophotography |
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October 12, 2010 |
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University |
Cosmology and the Microwave Background |
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September 14, 2010 |
Clayton Myers, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab |
The Quest to Understand the Sun and the Space Weather It Produces |
| 2009 - 2010 | Speaker | Topic | ||
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| June 14, 2011 | William Murray, NJ State Museum Planetarium |
Annual Member's Planetarium Show | ||
May 10, 2011 |
Khee-Gan Lee, Princeton University |
Quasars and the Lyman-alpha Forest: A Look into the Cosmic Boom town |
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April 12, 2011 |
Michael Molnar |
The Star Of Bethlehem |
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March 8, 2011 |
Tim Brandt, Princeton University |
Type Ia Supernovae and the Search for Their Progenitors |
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February 8, 2014 |
Fronefield Crawford III, Franklin & Marshall College |
New Searches for Old Pulsars |
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January 11, 2011 |
Snow cancellation |
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December 14, 2010 |
Bob Vanderbei & J. Richard Gott Princeton University |
New Book - "Sizing Up The Universe" |
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November 9, 2010 |
Jerry Lodriguss, Astrophotographer |
Secrets of DSLR Astrophotography |
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October 12, 2010 |
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University |
Cosmology and the Microwave Background |
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September 10, 2013 |
Clayton Myers, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab |
The Quest to Understand the Sun and the Space Weather It Produces |
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