RAS MEETING SCHEDULE AUTUMN 2004

 4 oct	Steven Lucy		Introduction
11 oct	Misty Pfantz		Ancient Egypt
18 oct	Steven Lucy		Transits of Venus
25 oct	Julia Rasmussen		Galaxy Classification
 1 nov	Dean W. Armstrong	History of RAS
 8 nov	Steven Aaberg		Star Formation
15 nov	Kara Schoonmaker	The Fact and Fiction (but Especially Fiction) of Black Holes
22 nov  Katie de Boer		The Astronomy of Stonehenge
29 nov  Sam Smith		Observatory Location*


RAS MEETING SCHEDULE WINTER 2005

 3 jan	Colin McFaul		All of the Physics Skipped Over in all of the RAS Talks Last Quarter*
10 jan	Derek Sheridan		Medieval Arabic Astronomy
17 jan	Sam Friedman		Nucleosynthesis:  A Lecture In Three Acts
24 jan	Steven Lucy		What Galileo Saw Through His Telescope And Why You Should Care*
31 jan	Misty Pfantz		History of Yerkes Observatory (up till 1897)
 7 feb	SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY -- NO MEETING
14 feb  VALENTINE'S DAY -- NO MEETING
21 feb	Katie de Boer		Huygens:  Man and Machine
28 feb	Dean W. Armstrong	Meteoritica Fantastica
 7 mar	MOVIE NIGHT -- LOCATION TBA


RAS MEETING SCHEDULE SPRING 2005

28 mar	Steven Lucy		Asteroid Occultations:  Theory and Practice
 4 apr	Melinda Morang		Mayan Astronomy and Mathematics
11 apr	Julia Rasmussen		Dark Matter: its Whys and Hows
18 apr	Steven Lucy		Occultations Follow-up and elections!
25 apr	Jess Millar		Mars Rover Update 2005
 2 may	Katie de Boer		Introduction to Archeoastronomy
 9 may	Steve Koppes		Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites
16 may	Sam Smith and Dean Armstrong	Yerkes Aurora:  Sam explains the science, Dean provides the pictures
23 may	Drew Fustin		Neutrino Detectors
30 may	MOVIE NIGHT -- LOCATION TBA


* = part of our on-going series of talks entitled "This Talk Is Inteded As A Justification Of My Concentration".

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