Joint Astronomy Centre Seminars in 1999

13 January - Walter Gear - Mullard Space Science Laboratory - ``Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Background Radiation''

28 January - Alexandra Fassia & Peter Meikle - Imperial College - ``Recent studies of core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae''

5 February - Richard Webb - UCLA - ``The Nearest Known Recent Star Formation Site - TW Hydrae''

12 February - Suzanne Ramsay Howat - ROE - ``UIST - An Imager Spectrometer for UKIRT''

18 February, - Michiel Hogerheijde - UC Berkeley - ``The molecular environment of low-mass protostars''

19 February - K. Y. Lo - Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics- ``The Present and Future at the ASIAA: SMA, TAOS, and AMIBA''

25 February - Paul Hirst - Univ. of Leicester - ``Narrow Line Seyfert Is - AGN that Don't Fit the Model''

4 March - Gillian Wright - ROE/ATC - ``The European NGST Studies and Plans''

9 March - Tom Geballe - Gemini - ``H3+ in Interstellar Space''

15 March - Dick Crutcher - UIUC - ``Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds - Observations Confront Theory''

24 March - Mark Halpern - UToronto - ``Building the Microwave Anisotropy Probe''

1 April - Ian Pain - Joint Astronomy Centre - ``Replacing the central bearing - or - How do you use a 130 tonne antenna to pick itself up, anyway?''

9 April - Jason Lewis & Stephen Smith - Pedal for the Planet Team - ``The Pedal for the Planet Expedition''

13 April - Jean-Rene Roy - Univ. de Laval - ``Formation and Early Evolution of Super-Stellar Clusters''

20 April - Min Yun - NRAO/VLA - ``Probing Cosmic Star Formation History''

22 April- Jean-Rene Roy - Univ. de Laval - ``The Transformation of Spiral Galaxies''

27 April - Jason Hobson - Univ. of Victoria - "High-Resolution Imaging of Herbig-Haro Outflows"
27 April - Aaron Bernsen - Univ. of Victoria - "Reduction and Analysis of High-Resolution Spectral Data"
27 April - Ed Ross - Univ. of Victoria - "Care and Feeding of Secondary Calibrators"
27 April - Jessica Powers - Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo - "Evolution of Circumstellar Disks Around Low-Mass Protostars"

3 May - Gordon Stacey - Cornell U. - ``SPIFI - First Results from the JCMT''

19 May - Stuart Ryder - JAC - "Confessions of an Eclipse Chaser" (in Gemini Seminar Room)

3 May - Wayne Holland - JAC - "SCUBA: Current performance and future upgrades"

3 May - Tim Jenness - JAC - "SCUBA observing techniques and data reduction pipeline"

4 June - Tatsuhiko Hasegawa - Univ. of Calgary - "A Chemical Model of the Molecular Envelope of the Planetary Nebula NGC 7027"

7 June - James Rhoads - NOAO - "Gamma Ray Burst Energetics and Environments from Afterglow Studies"

17 June - Stuart Ryder - JAC - "First Results from the Parkes HI Multibeam Surveys"

22 June - Martin Cohen - UC Berkeley - "The MSX Satellite: From Far-UV to Mid-IR" (in Gemini Seminar Room)

29 June - Iain Steele - Liverpool John Moores University - "The Liverpool Robotic Telescope"

1 July - Martin Haas - MPIA - "ISO 5 - 200 micron photometry of ULIRGs and PG quasar"

20 July - Christian Veillet - CFHT - "MegaPrime: the next generation of wide field imaging at CFHT"

27 July - Chris Davis - JAC - "Serpens - the big picture: wide-field mapping of a star forming cloud core"

25 August - Alastair Edge - Durham Univ. - "Molecular gas in cooling flow clusters - detected at last!"

14 September - Russell Redman - HIA - "MSX Infrared-Dark Clouds Observed with the JCMT - Coldbeds of Star Formation"

21 September - Steve Miller - UC London - "The Role of H3+ in Planetary Atmospheres"

22 September - Phil Jewell - NRAO/GBT - "The Green Bank Telescope"

23 September - John Richer - U Cambridge - "The Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA)"

30 September - Albert Zijlstra - UMIST - "Bipolar Outflows from OH/IR Stars"

7 October - Ken Mighell - NOAO/KPNO - "HST Observations of Stellar Populations in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies"

22 October - Karl Stapelfeldt - WFPC2/SIRTF Scientist, JPL/Caltech - "HST Imaging of Young Stellar Object Disks and Jets" (in Gemini Seminar Room)

4 November - Jean Chiar - NASA/Ames - "Ice and Dust Composition Along the Line-of-Sight Toward the Galactic Center"

17 November - Martin Haas - MPI Heidelberg - "The cold dust concentrations in the colliding galaxies NGC4038/39"

24 November - Alan Marscher and Svetlana Marchenko - Boston University - "Multiwavelength Polarization Observations of Jets in Blazars"

30 November - Linda Sparke - U. Wisconsin - "Multiply Barred and Lopsided Galaxies" (in Gemini Seminar Room)

1 December - Bill Duncan & Wayne Holland - ATC-Edin/JAC - "SCUBA-2: A new generation bolometer camera for the JCMT"

13 December - Douglas Caldwell - Nasa Ames - "Photometric Detection of Extrasolar Planets with the Vulcan Camera"

14 December - John Tonry - IfA - "Wide Field Adaptive Optics: the Future of Ground-based Imaging?" (in Gemini Seminar Room)

15 December - Richard Hills - Cambridge - "The H3 Holography Receiver"