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RSAA FEAST-OF-FACTS SCHEDULE 2009

Date Speaker Title
Nov 27 No FoF 7th Annual Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars
Jan 9 Katie Dodds-Eden Flare from the Centre of the Galaxy -- Evidence for Synchrotron Emission from Multiwavelength Observations of a Sgr A* Flare
Jan 30 Eriita Jones Thesis Proposal
Feb 4 2008/9 Summer Scholars Project Reports
Feb 13 Ryuichi Takahashi Simulations of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Feb 20 No FoF
Feb 27 Charley Lineweaver Life, gravity and the second law of thermodynamics
Mar 6 Wolfgang Hayek 3D Stellar Atmospheres (PhD midterm review)
Mar 13 Chas Egan The Weight of a Neutrino
Jose Robles Climbing Mount Aspiring: How hard can it be?
Mar 20 Jayanne English (University of Manitoba) Cosmos versus Canvas: Tensions between Art and Science in Astronomy Images
Mar 27 No FoF
Apr 3 Ken Freeman Shrouds of the Night
Apr 10 No FoF Good Friday
Apr 17 Mark Wieczorek (CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) The asymmetric thermal evolution of the Moon
Apr 24 Wolfgang Kerzendorf PyRAF - the better IRAF
May 1 No FoF
May 8 Leith Godfrey Multi-wavelength Studies of X-ray Bright Extragalactic Jets (Final Thesis Talk)
May 15 Se-Heon Oh Final thesis talk
May 22 Charles Jenkins Can we clean up Old King Coal?
May 29 No FoF
Jun 5 No FoF
June 12 Jonathon Kocz Applied Radio Frequency Interference Removal in Radio Astronomy (Final Thesis Talk)
Jun 19 Tiago Pereira Towards energy sustainability. I. Electric Cars
Jun 26 You The Future of Feast-of-Facts
Jul 3 David Nicholls Ferns - the ultimate survivors
Jul 10 No FoF ASA
Jul 17 Group Discussion Highlights of the ASA
Jul 24 Tiago Pereira, Simon Murphy & Wolfgang Kerzendorf Visualizing Data (40 min.)
Jul 31 Ken Freeman Astronomy in China
Aug 7 Christine Nicholls Today's Knitting: two sticks, some string, and endless possibilities
Mike Dopita Thera: The Minoan Atlantis
Aug 14 Adi Chopra Astrobiology - A graduate student's perspective
Aug 21 Jonghwan Rhee Struggling with the New Instrument, WiFeS
Aug 28 Ragini Singh Ancient Indian Astronomy & Mythology
Mike Fowler ALFLEX - Innocents Abroad
Sep 4 Marc White Adventures in the Army Reserves
Vikram Ravi Burpers, winkers, sparkers and beyond: new additions to the radio transient zoo
Sep 11 John Norris Boötes I stellar abundances
Dave Yong Observing with the VLT
Sep 18 Discussion The Future of Australian 8m Telescope Access
Sep 25 Shaila Akhter Sub-structure of the Milky Way Stellar Halo using RR Lyrae Stars from SkyMapper
Libby Maunder Stellar Streams in the Milky Way's Outer Halo
Oct 2 Sharon Rapoport Adaptive Noise Cancellation Techniques: Towards Detecting Gravitational Waves from the Crab Pulsar
Alex Wagner Propagation of relativistic jets in inhomogeneous media
Oct 9 Dan Bayliss National Ride to Work Day
Michele Bannister The State of the Solar System
Oct 16 Melissa Ness Microwave Engineering to Magnetic Reconnection to the Milky Way
Liz Wylie de Boer Flamenco - the dance with the clicky-clacky things
Oct 23 Chris Lidman (AAO) Colloquium: Galaxy clusters as probes of dark energy
Oct 30 Chris Onken The Augustine Report: NASA's options for the next decade
Julia Scharwächter A Tourist Guide to La Silla Observing: Between Rocky Planets and Rock Paintings
Nov 6 Dhruba Saikia (NCRA,TIFR; ATNF, CSIRO) Colloquium: Radio Galaxies: some aspects of their environments and evolution
Nov 13 Brad Tucker Pan-Starrs and the LBT: Updates and Recent Results
Nov 20 Wolfgang Kerzendorf Type Ia Explosion
Nov 27 No FoF 7th Annual Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars
Dec 4 Devika Kamath PhD Thesis Proposal
David Nicholls PhD Thesis Proposal
Dec 11 Marcel Pawlowski
Lucia Klarmann
Jan 15, 2010 Payel Das (MPE)
Jan 29, 2010 Jackie Cooper
Feb 12, 2010 Christine Nicholls PhD Mid-Term Review
Mar 5, 2010 Libby Maunder PhD Thesis Proposal