Past Weekly Lectures
December 10, 2008
Nuclear Weapons and Space Weapons
Special Panel: Pete Worden, Pavel Podvig and Will Marshall
November 19, 2008
Some Thoughts from an Anthropologist on Culture, Interstellar Communication, and the Construction of Interstellar Messages
Professor John Traphagan
November 05, 2008
The Allen Telescope Array: A Radio Survey Telescope for the 21st Century
Don Backer and Jill Tarter
October 01, 2008
What's hot in Saturn's Rings?
Dr. Jeff Cuzzi (NASA Ames), Dr. Mark Showalter (SETI Institute) and Dr. Stuart Pilorz (JPL/SETI Institute)
September 17, 2008
Direct detection of extrasolar planets and the Gemini Planet Imager
Dr. Bruce Macintosh
September 10, 2008
Science in my life, and the unpredictability of discovery
Professor Charles Townes, UC Berkeley (1964 Nobel Prize winner for Physics for the invention of the laser)
August 20, 2008
The Advanced Studies Laboratory - A unique linkage between UCSC and NASA Ames
Dr. Rosalind Grymes
July 30, 2008
Spitzer Thermal Emission Spectra of Asteroids: Implications for the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems
Josh Emery
July 09, 2008
People and Automation: Implications for Long Duration Lunar and Planetary Exploration
Jessica Marquez
July 02, 2008
An Electromagnetic Sounder to Detect Subsurface Liquid Water on Mars: Field Test Results
Greg Delory
June 18, 2008
Exploratory data analysis of planetary hyperspectral datasets - use of statistics to enhance mission science return
Mario Parente
June 11, 2008
The Role of Cortical Noise in Brain Function
Prof. Donald A. Glaser, UC Berkeley (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1960 for the invention of the "bubble chamber")
June 04, 2008
Liverpool Telescope: Development and science results from a fully autonomous common-user telescope
Robert Smith
May 25, 2008
Toxicological effects of moon dust - how humans will react in the lunar environment
Jon Rask and Erin Tranfield:
May 21, 2008
Jets and Outflows from Young Stars: How They Help Shape the Early Solar System
Sienny Shang
May 14, 2008
Probing the Meteorology of our Protoplanetary Disk with Cometary Mineralogy
Diane Wooden
April 30, 2008
Following Carbon's Evolutionary Path from Nucleosynthesis to the the Solar System
Stefanie Milam
April 23, 2008
Anoxygenic photosynthesis, evolution, and the origin of continents and cyanobacteria
Norm Sleep
February 13, 2008
Terrestrial Planet Formation and Habitability in Binary Star Systems
Elisa Quintana
February 08, 2008
Viewpoints: a Fast, Interactive, Multi-platform Visualization Tool for Exploring Large Multivariate Data Sets
Paul Gazis & Creon Levit
January 30, 2008
Anomaly Detection in Data Streams and its Implications for Radio Astronomy and SETI
Ashok Srivastava
January 23, 2008
CRISM Observations of the seasonal recession of the Martian southern polar cap
Adrian Brown
January 16, 2008
The Allen Telescope Array: A Wide-angle, Panchromatic Radio Camera for SETI and Radio Astronomy
Jill Tarter
January 09, 2008
Quantum Astronomy: Extending the Weirdness of Modern Physics to Cosmic Scales
Laurance Doyle
January 02, 2008
On the extraction of all information embedded in radio siganls: Implications for SETI
Bo Thide
Lectures Topics
- Analysis of Data (14)
- Asteroids (17)
- Astrobiology (34)
- Earth Sciences (16)
- Human Spaceflight (19)
- Mars (33)
- Observational Astronomy (36)
- Outer Planets (24)
- Primitive Bodies (6)
- REU Program (3)
- SETI (25)
- The Moon (5)
- Theoretical Astronomy (18)
- Uncategorized (15)
