Joint Astronomy Centre Seminars in 1997

6 January - Walter Jaffee - ULeiden - "Neutral Gas in Cooling Flow Clusters of Galaxies"

13 January - Gillian Wright - JAC - "The Future UKIRT Instrument Programme"

22 January - Chris Davis - Dublin IAS - "Understanding bipolar molecular outflows from young stars"

6 February - Frossie Economou - JAC - "Surf the net - beware of the sharks"

19 February - Svetlana Marchenko & Alan Marscher - St. Petersburg State University/Boston University - "Variations of the Spectrum and Polarization of the BL Lac Object OJ 287 during Major Outbursts"

28 February - Heino Falke - U Maryland - "High-Resolution HST and VLA observations of Seyfert galaxies"

5 March - Chris Simpson - Jet Propulstion Lab - "The Stellar Content Of High Redshift Radio Galaxies"

14 March - Sandy Leggett - JAC - "White Dwarfs and the Age of the Galaxy"

18 March - Scott Chapman - U British Columbia - "The core structure of Seyfert galaxy nuclei" & "The UBC Liquid Mirror Telescope"

24 March - Jim Hough - U Hertfordshire - "New Polarimetry Results from UKIRT & Future Polarimetry with Gemini"

3 April - Raghvendra Sahai - JPL - ``The Transformation of AGB Stars into Planetary Nebulae: New Results from the Hubble Space Telescope''

16 April - Karl Glazebrook - AAT- ``Deep NIR Surveys: Diverse instruments and strategies to understand galaxy evolution at z>1''

9 May - Martina Wiedner - MRAO - ``183 GHz Water Vapour Monitors and Interferometry''

20 May - John Davies - JAC - ``Optical Infrared Observations of Distant Minor Planets, or Dirty Goings on in the Outer Solar System''

5 June - Jane Greaves - JAC - ``Carbon stars and the evolving interstellar medium''

18 June - Serena Viti - UCL - ``A spectral Analysis for M Dwarfs''

24 June - David Lee - UDurham - ``First Light Results with the UKIRT Integral Field Unit''

18 July - Andrew Harrison - MRAO - ``Photodissociation Regions in NGC 253''

24 July - Dale Frail - VLA - ``Hot Flashes from the Edge of the Universe - recent progress in gamma-ray bursters''

29 July - Henry Matthews - JAC - ``The JCMT Hale-Bopp Campaign - A Progress Report''

1 August - Alan Penny - RAL - ``COROT - space mission for asteroseismology and planet hunting''

8 August - Andrew Blain - MRAO - ``Gravitational Lensing in the Sub-millimetre Waveband''

19 August - Gareth Leyshon - UWales Cardiff - ``UKIRT polarimetric evidence for quasar cores in high redshift radio galaxies''

11 September - Stuart Ryder - JAC - ``The Peculiar Rotation Curve of NGC 157''

2 October - Andrew Newsam - USouthampton - ``Some recent highlights of the UK ROSAT deep survey''

6 October - Max Pettini - CambridgeU - ``Infrared Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies''

8 October - Derek Ward-Thompson - ROE - ``Interstellar medium to main sequence star - the last pieces of the jigsaw puzzle''

4 November - Colin Aspin - NOT - ``The Nordic Optical Telescope in the ere of the 8m''

5 December- Andy Longmore - ROE - ``Directions in Adaptive Optics, or How many moving mirrors do we need?''

9December - Peter Papadopoulos - UToronto - ``Molecular Gas in Seyfert Galaxies''

12 December - Matthew D. Lehnert - Sterrewach Leiden - ``The Nature of Starburst Galaxies''

18 December - David Hughes - ROE - ``The High-Redshift Universe - Where is it?''