Anyone in the University community is welcome at RAS meetings, which are held on Mondays at 8pm in Ryerson 358. If Ryerson is locked, enter through the south door of Eckhart and cross over to Ryerson on the second floor. There is observing after meetings if weather permits.
This schedule is subject to revision if the need arises; all changes will posted to the astro mailing list. Full abstracts of upcoming talks are also sent to this list a few days before hand.
| RAS MEETING SCHEDULE AUTUMN 2005 | |||
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1st | 26 sept | NO MEETING | |
| 2nd | 03 oct | officers | Welcome, introductions, about the club, tour of observatory, etc. |
| 3rd | 10 oct | Dorothea Samtleben [F] | Observations of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation |
| 4th | 17 oct | Katie de Boer [R] | Intro to radio astronomy |
| 5th | 24 oct | Melinda Morang [R] | Cosmic gamma rays |
| 6th | 31 oct | NO MEETING | |
| 7th | 07 nov | Peter Vandervoort [F] | Dutch Scientists in the Age of Galileo and Newton |
| 8th | 14 nov | Kara Schoonmaker [R] | Everything you wanted to know about Astrology but were afraid to ask |
| 9th | 21 nov | Steven Lucy [R] | Observing asteroids and submitting data to the IAU's Minor Planet Center |
| 10th | 28 nov | TBA | TBA |
| FIN | 05 dec | NO MEETING | |
| RAS MEETING SCHEDULE WINTER 2006 | |||
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1st | 02 jan | NO MEETING | |
| 2nd | 09 jan | Julia Rasmussen [R] | Experimental Dark Matter Detection using bubble chambers |
| 3rd | 16 jan | NO MEETING -- DR. MLK JR. DAY | |
| 4th | 23 jan | Katie de Boer [R] | Carl Sagan |
| 5th | 30 jan | Tim Donaghy [G] | The Biggest Bang since the Big One (Gamma Ray Bursts) |
| 6th | 06 feb | Steven Lucy [R] | A short history of the distance to the sun |
| 7th | 13 feb | Eduardo Rozo [G] | Gravitational Lensing |
| 8th | 20 feb | Bob Fisher [F] | The Role of Turbulence in Star Formation |
| 9th | 27 feb | Melinda Morang + Jess Millar[R] | Holst's The Planets |
| 10th | 06 mar | MOVIE NIGHT -- LOCATION TBA | |
| FIN | 13 mar | NO MEETING | |
| RAS MEETING SCHEDULE SPRING 2006 | |||
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1st | 27 mar | NO MEETING | |
| 2nd | 03 apr | Steven Lucy [R] | Beginner's Guide to Practical Astronomy |
| 3rd | 10 apr | Dean W. Armstrong [R] | Interplanetary Dust |
| 4th | 17 apr | TBA | Yerkes Observatory |
| 5th | 24 apr | Andy Puckett [G] | Distant Minor Planets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 6th | 01 may | Don York [F] | Xian: A Detector Astronomical Transients |
| 7th | 08 may | Nathan Hearn [F] | Galaxy Collisions: Structure Evolution and Star Formation |
| 8th | 15 may | Katie de Boer [R] | Black holes and the information paradox [cancelled] |
| 9th | 22 may | Fabian Schmidt [G] | The mystery of cosmic rays |
| 10th | 29 may | MOVIE NIGHT -- LOCATION TBA | |
| FIN | 5 jun | NO MEETING | |
[R] = RAS member, [U] = other undergrad, [F] = faculty/postoc, [G] = grad student, [O] = other