SMCAS
Events
Past Speaker History
Feb 5th, 2010
Business Director, RenderMan, Pixar Animation Studios
Computer Graphics Astronomical Visualization: From Hollywood, NASA, and Beyond
More...Dec 4th, 2009
Experimental Physisist, KIPAC/SLAC, Menlo Park
Galactic Explosions and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope
More...Nov 6th 2009
Planetary Geologist, USGS Menlo Park
Mars: The water story and prospects for life
More...Oct 2nd 2009
Roundup at the Kepler Corral:
The Race to Detect the First Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sunlike Star
More...June 5th 2009
Editor, Journal of Irreproducible Results
This Book Warps Space and Time!
More...Mar 6th 2009
Chair, Physics Department, Stanford University
The Dark Side of the Universe
More...Feb 6th 2009
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
TOPIC: Mysteries of the Sun
Jan 9th 2009
NASA AMES
Topic: Mars Phoenix Mission.
Joint meeting with PAS at Foothill Community College
Dec 5th 2008
Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
TOPIC: The X-Ray Universe
Nov 7th 2008
HP Laboratories
Antikythera Mechanism Research Project
TOPIC: Reflectance Imaging: Relighting the Antikythera Mechanism
Oct 3rd 2008
Professor (Research), Stanford University, Dept. of Physics, Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)
TOPIC: What is the 'H' of HMI: Future Prospects for Helioseismology
Sep 5th 2008
TOPIC: US Space Program History
Jun 6th 2008
UC San Francisco, Professor of Psychiatry
TOPIC: Celestial Maps from Ancient to Modern Times
May 2nd 2008
LCROSS Education and Public Outreach Lead
NASA AMES Research Center
TOPIC: Shooting for the Moon: The LCROSS Mission and Observing Opportunities
Apr 4th 2008
CSM, Professor of Math, Physics, Astronomy
TOPIC: SYMVISIO VIII
Mar 7th 2008
SETI Institute Principal Investigator
TOPIC: Getting a Grip on Meteor Showers
Earlier Speakers
Feb 1st 2008: Dr. Devon Burr, SETI
The planetary habitability of Mars and Titan
Dec 7th 2007: Dr. Friedemann Freund, NASA AMES, Carl Sagan Institute, SETI
All those organics up in the sky
Nov 2nd 2007: Dr. Joe Barranco, SFSU
Proto Planetary Vortex
Oct 5th 2007: Dr. Geoff Bower, UC Berkeley
Allen Telescope Array
Sep 7th 2007: Norm Sperling
Back to the Future
Jun 1st 2007: Dr. Tom Gates
40 years of Bay Area Astronomy
May 4th 2007: Dr. David Peet, Physicist
The life and times of David Bohm
Apr 21st 2007: Dr. Dale Cruikshank, NASA AMES
Spectroscopy and Ices
Apr 6th 2007: Dr. Joshua Bloom, UC Berkeley
Giant Cosmic Explosions: The Gamma-ray Burst Boom
Mar 2nd 2007: Richard Bennion, CCDWare
Astrophotography
Dec 1st 2006: Dr. Marusa Bradac, Stanford SLAC
First Evidence for Dark Matter
Nov 3rd 2006: Dr. Jack Lissauer, NASA
Meteorites and the formation of the Solar System
Oct 6th 2006: Bob Naeye, Editor Sky and Telescope
Update on Cassini and Saturn
Sep 1st 2006: Ken Lum and Jaques Guertin
Eclipse Chasing Adventures
Jun 2nd 2006: Dr. Michael Kelsey, Stanford - SLAC
Origin of Visable Matter in the Universe
May 6th 2006: Dr. Scott Sandford, NASA
Project Stardust
May 5th 2006: Mark Mir, University of San Francisco, Ricci Institute
The Mechanics of Heaven
Apr 7th 2006: Dr. Tom Abel, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics
The First Thing in the Universe. Supercomputer visualizations
Feb 3rd 2006: Dr. Nathalie Carol, NASA AMES Astrobiologist
Mars Rover Update
Jan 5th 2006: Dr. Lynn Rothchild, NASA AMES Astrobiologist
Extremeophiles & life in the universe
Dec 2nd 2005: Dr. Michael Peskin, SLAC - Theoretical Physicist
Dark Matter
Nov 4th 2005: Dr. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley
Black Holes: The Science Behind the Science Fiction