Observational Astronomy Lectures
March 05, 2013
On the road to extragalactic transient discoveries
Sarah Spolaor
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
February 26, 2013
Star Formation through Radio Eyes: Probing Magnetic Fields with CARMA
Chat Hull
UC Berkeley
September 05, 2012
Coronal heating and acceleration and NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission
Stuart D. Bale
Physics Department and Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley
December 07, 2011
The Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the Kepler Era and Beyond
Sara Seager
Planetary Science and Physics, MIT
November 16, 2011
Jupiter Picture of the Day
Mike Wong
Center for Integrative Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
October 19, 2011
The oxygen isotopic composition of the Sun: implications for solar nebula chemistry
Kevin McKeegan
UCLA
August 24, 2011
Kepler and Doppler Searches for ExoEarths and Optical SETI
Geoff Marcy
Director of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
June 29, 2011
Looking back in time 13 billion years to when the Universe was young: searching for the earliest galaxies with Hubble
Garth Illingworth
Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz
June 08, 2011
Analyzing the atmosphere of Super Earth GJ1214b
Eliza Kempton
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
May 12, 2011
Planetary Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope
Heidi B. Hammel
Space Science Institute
April 06, 2011
The Organism/Organics Exposure to Orbital Stresses (O/OREOS) NanoStatellite Mission
Richard Quinn
SETI Institute
March 08, 2011
Small planets are common: evidence from the Eta-Earth Survey and the Kepler mission
Andrew Howard
Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley
December 01, 2010
IRIS: a new window on the physics of the solar interface region
Bart De Pontieu
Lockheed Martin Company
November 17, 2010
Status of the James Webb Telescope and its Capabilities for Exoplanet Science
Mark Clampin
Goddard
August 25, 2010
Beyond Kepler: Direct Imaging of Earth-like Planets
Ruslan Belikov
Space Science Division, NASA Ames
July 21, 2010
From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths: A Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Heather Knutson
Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
June 23, 2010
Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements with the QUaD Experiment
Sarah Church
Deputy Director of KIPAC, Stanford University
April 28, 2010
PAHs and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands: From the Laboratory to Space
Farid Salama
NASA Ames Space Science Division
February 17, 2010
Asteroseismology in the era of CoRoT and Kepler space missions
Conny Aerts
University of Leuven, Belgium
December 09, 2009
Finding Planets Around Nearby Stars: The Lick-Carnegie Extrasolar Planet Search Program
Steven S. Vogt
UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz
October 14, 2009
Fermi-LAT Observing the Universe with high-energy gamma-ray eyes
Dr. Stefan Funk
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University
September 16, 2009
HST Imaging of Fomalhaut: Direct detection of an exosolar planet and Kuiper Belt around a nearby star
Paul Kalas
SETI Institute and University of California, Berkeley
September 02, 2009
Kepler's First Peek
Natalie Batalha
Physics Department, San Jose State University
January 21, 2009
Roundup at the Kepler Corral: the Race to Detect the First Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sunlike Star
Dr. Jeffrey Van Cleve,
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp
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 22, 2008
Exploring the Extreme Universe with GLAST
Professor Lynn Cominsky
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University
June 04, 2008
Liverpool Telescope: Development and science results from a fully autonomous common-user telescope
Robert Smith
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)
