Joint Astronomy Centre Seminars in 2000

1 February - Jonathan Braine - Observatoire de Bordeaux - "From Isolated to Tidal Dwarf Galaxies"

4 February - David Hughes - INAOP Mexico - "Combining Balloon-borne and Ground-based Submillimetre Surveys"

10 February - Ted von Hippel - Gemini - "White Dwarfs in Open Clusters and the Age of the Galaxy"

15 March, - Jill Knapp - Princeton U. - "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey"

20 March - Richard McMahon - Cambridge U. - "Star formation rates and history in z>4 quasar"

7 April - Katherine Blundell - Oxford - "Radio galaxy evolution: what you can learn from a Brief Encounter"

11 April - Klaus Hodapp - UH Manoa - "Near-Infrared Detector Arrays - The Current State-of-the-Art"

18 April - Martin Houde - CSO - "Probing the magnetic field with molecular ion spectra"

27 April - Julie Roberts - UVictoria - "World Beating and Earth Shaking Asteroid Science"

27 April - Louis Desroches - UVictoria - "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Young Stellar Objects and their Outflows"

28 April - Jesse Eyer - UVictoria - "Infall, Outflow, and Rotation of the Class 0 Protostar L1251B"

28 April - Jeff Wagg - UVictoria - "Determining Water Vapour Opacity in the Submillimetre"

5 May - Stuart Ryder - Anglo-Australian Observatory - "Probing Circumnuclear Star Formation with UKIRT"

11 May, - John Whiteoak - CSIRO - Australia Telescope National Facility - "Better Protection for Radio Astronomy at Millimetre Wavelengths"

15 May - Suzanne Ramsay Howatt - ROE/ATC - "Progress on UIST: The UKIRT Imaging Spectrometer"

25 May - Con Deliyannis - "The Stellar Interiors-Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Connection"

26 May - Peter Papadopoulos - Sterrewacht Leiden - "ALMA and the ISM in nearby Galaxies"

9 June - Simon Jeffery - Armagh Observatory - "Evolutionary constraints imposed by the pulsations in extreme helium stars"

15 June - David Buckley & Kobus Meiring - South African Astronomical Observatory - "The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT): current status"

30 June - Ralf Launhardt - CalTech - "Fragmentation of protostellar cores and binary star formation: The case of CB230"

6 July - Chris Impey - Univ. of Arizona - "Some Things We Don't Know About Galaxies"

7 July- Colin Borys - Univ. of British Columbia - "Two topics in SCUBA data analysis: SCANMAPPING the HDF and the UBC experience with 2 bolo chopping"

10 July - Takeshi Oka - Univ. Chicago - "Mystery of H3+ in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium"

25 July - Neill Reid - Univ. Pennsylvania - "Dark Matters"

4 August - Jeff Kuhn - Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii - "Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: The case for no dark matter"

17 August - David Naylor - Lethbridge University - "An Infrared Water Vapour Monitor"

24 August - Brenda Matthews - McMaster University - "What's Holding Up Gravity?  Magnetic Field Structures in Molecular Filaments"

31 August - Alex Macgillivray - Univ. of Victoria -  "The contribution of O-rich, AGB stars to the local 12C/13C ratio"

11 September - Randolph Klein - AIU Jena - "An intermediate-mass Class 0 Object - ISO Observations of CB3"

23 October - Annemieke Boonman - Sterrewacht Leiden - "H₂O, CO₂ and HCN toward massive protostars"

9 November - Ken Mighell - NOAO - "HST Observations of the Stellar Populations Near the Nucleus of M33"

4 December - Patrice Bouchet - CTIO - "Infrared Observations of supernova SN1987A in the LMC"

8 December - H. Zinnecker - AIP Pottsdam - "The binary mode of star formation"

14 December - Julien Woillez - Observatoire de Paris, Meudon -"Turning Mauna Kea's Telescopes into a giant interferometer - 'OHANA: Optical Hawaiian Array for Nanoradian Astronomy" (in Gemini HQ Seminar Room)

18 December - Richard de Grijs - CambridgeU - "Evolved Super Star Clusters and Propagating Star Formation in M82"