Joint Astronomy Centre Seminars in 1998

13 January - Michael Burton - UNSW - ``Astronomy on the Antarctic Plateau''

27 January - Douglas Scott - UBC - ``How the Universe Became Neutral''

2 February - Doug Johnstone - CITA - ``Destroying Circumstellar Disks in Orion's Trapezium''

13 February - Joseph Jensen - Gemini - ``Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations and the Extragalactic Distance Scale'' (the first Gemini/JAC Joint Seminar)

17 February - Prof. Don W. Kurtz - University of Cape Town - ``New Developments in Asteroseismology'' (the first Subaru/JAC Joint Seminar)

20 February - Alexander Brown - Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, UColorado - ``Coronal Variability on RS CVn Binaries''

27 February - Robin Phillips - UKent - ``2-D radiative transfer modelling of star formation regions''

5 March - Liz Puchnarewicz - Mullard Space Science Laboratory - ``Investigating the hottest, strongest accretion discs in Seyferts and quasars''

13 March - Ian Parry & Kim Ennico - Cambridge University -``COHSI - The Cambridge OH-Suppression Instrument - a new spectrograph at UKIRT''

18 March - Karl Glazebrook - Anglo-Australian Observatory - ``Instrumentation Development at the AAT: 2dF and LDSS++, etc.''

25March - Brett Blacker - Space Telescope Science Institute - ``Proposal Solicitation and Selection for the 21st Century''

3 April - Nye Evans - Keele University - ``Observations of Sakurai's Object - Stellar Evolution in Real Time''

8 April - Larry Olsen - Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope - ``Physiologcal Effects of Working at High Altitude''

15 April - Huub Rottgering - Sterrewacht Leiden - ``The Most Distant Radio Galaxies''

27 April- Chris Davis & Kristen Coppin - JAC/UVictoria - ``First Measurements of Proper Motions and Variability of H2 in Protostellar Outflows''

5 May - Greg Sloan - Australian Defence Force Academy - ``The nature of organic molecules in the interstellar medium''

15 May - Kumiko Usuda - Subaru - ``Low Density Molecular Gas in the Galaxy''

29 May - Tetsu Kitayama - University of Tokyo - ``Number counts of galaxy clusters in X-ray and submm bands'' (in the Subaru HQ Seminar Room)

4 June- Nick Tothill - JAC/QMW - ``Scan-Maps and Skydips: SURFing the Lagoon''

6 June - Tom Ray - Dublin IAS - ``Outflows & Accretion Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars''

22 June - Jonathan Davies - University of Wales at Cardiff - ``Dwarf Galaxies in theLocal Universe''

28 July - Vassilis Charmandaris - Observatoire de Paris - ``The mid-IR view of collisionally induced star formation in interacting galaxies''

13 August - Emilios Harlaftis - National Observatory of Athens - ``Keck Observations of Galactic Black Holes''

18 August - Simon Lilly - University of Toronto - ``Deep sub-mm surveys and the hidden phases of galaxy evolution''

25August - Frossie Economou - Joint Astronomy Centre - ``Y2K - Is civilization coming to an end?''

3 September - Ted von Hippel - Gemini - ``Direct Detection of Intergalactic Stars in the Virgo Cluster''

17 September - Nicolas Biver - Institute for Astronomy - ``Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp - Long-term monitorings at radio wavelengths''

22 September - Simon Green - University of Kent - ``In situ detection of interstellar dust''

29 September - Amy Barger - Institute for Astronomy, Univ of Hawaii at Manoa - ``TBA''

22 October - Alastair Edge - Univ. of Durham - "Recent results on clusters of galaxies from ROSAT All-Sky Survey"

12 November - Mark Birkinshaw - University of Bristol - ``The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and SCUBA''

25 November - Karl Glazebrook - Anglo-Australian Observatory - ``The Star-Formation Rate at z=1''

30 November- Thomas Lowe - Joint Astronomy Centre - ``Monte Carlo Simulations of Raman Scattered Emission Lines in Symbiotic Stars''

11 December - Frederique Motte - Max-Plank-Institute fur Radioastronomie - "Initial Conditions of Star Formation in rho Oph"