Joint Astronomy Centre Seminars in 2008

5 February - Peter Papadopoulos - Bonn, Germany - " First Results from a Molecular Line Survey of Local Extreme Starbursts "

19 February - Stephane Courteau - Queen's University, Canada - " Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations "

18 April - Loic Albert - Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope - " CFHT's wide field infrared imager WIRCam "

29 May - Holly Thomas - Inventya, Daresbury Innovation Centre, UK - " The Formation and Evolution of High-Mass Protostars "

2 June - Nige Hambly - University of Edinburgh IfA - " The substellar Initial Mass Function from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey "

16 June - Alison Peck - Joint ALMA Office, Santiago - " ALMA: Overview and Current Status "

25 July - Dirk Froebrich - School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, U.K. - " Exploiting 2MASS: A Systematic Search for and Discovery of new Galactic (Globular) Clusters "

28 July - Steve Millar - University College London - " Do extrasolar planets go bang? The role of H3+ in Planetary Atmospheres "

29 July - Nanda Kumar - Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - " Probing embedded clusters in Perseus, Ophiuchus and Serpens with Spitzer "

31 July - Myungshin Im - Seoul National University - " Supermassive black holes at high redshift "

1 August - Ed Chapin - University of British Columbia, Canada - " Sub-mm Continuum Maps since SCUBA: New results from AzTEC and BLAST Surveys "

5 August - Roland Kothes - Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, Canada - " A Search for Shocked Molecular Gas Around the Pulsar Wind Nebula G63.7+1.1 "

18 August - Nick Tothill - University of Exeter, U.K. - " Submillimetre site-testing at Dome A, Antarctica "

29 August - Carolyn McCoey - Univ. of Western Ontario/Univ. of Waterloo - " A precessing jet in the NGC2264G protostellar outflow? "

1 October - Hua-bai Li - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - " Magnetic Fields versus Turbulence in Molecular Clouds "

21 November - Moha Azimlu - Univ. of Waterloo, Canada - " A Study of Molecular Clouds Associated with HII Regions "

9 December - Mark Rawlings, Luca Rizzi & Chris Davis - JAC - " Staff presentations to the UKIRT board "

15 December - Mark Westmoquette - University College London - " Spatially-resolved studies of super star cluster feedback in starburst galaxies "