Fall 2001 Galaxy Lunch
 Fridays 12:15 p.m. in 622 Space Sciences 
 Organizers: Martha Haynes, Vassilis Charmandaris 

Note: To join the galaxy lunch mailing list contact Vassilis Charmandaris. Check the previous lunch talks:

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August 31st 

All participants (Cornell University)
Who we are and how we spend our time in the Space Sciences Bldg.
September 7th 
Prof. Gordon Stacey (Cornell University) 
Stellar Motions at the Galactic Center (Ghez et al. 2000) 
September 14th 
Karen Masters, Kristine Spekkens (Cornell University)
The Double nucleus of M31 (Tremaine 1995) 
September 21st 
Dr. Thomas Nikola (Cornell University) 
HST evidence of SMBH in Nearby Galaxies (Kormendy & Gebhardt 2001) 
September 28th 
Laurie Hall (Cornell University) 
No Super Massive Black Hole in M33? (Merritt et al. 2001) 
Special place: Galaxy Lunch @ Room 511  
October 5th 
Prof. Steve Eikenberry (Cornell University) 
MBH - sigmabulge; Relation for Super Massive Black Holes (Merritt & Ferrarese, 2001, ApJ, 547, 140) 
October 12th 
Dae-Sik Moon (Cornell University) 
Reverberation mapping techniques; characteristics of AGN (Gebhardt et al. 2000, ApJ, 543, L5 and Netzer & Peterson astro-ph/9706039) 
October 19th 
Barbara Catinella (Cornell University) 
Extremely red radio galaxies (Willott et al. astro-ph/0104118) 
October 26th 
Prof. Charles Telesco (Univ. of Florida) 
Science and challenges using a large telescope in the infrared. 
November 2nd 
Dr. Sarah Higdon (Cornell University) 
Recent Chandra Results on AGNs (Mathur astro-ph/0108044 and Weaver astro-ph/0108481) 
November 9th 
Dr. Vassilis Charmandaris (Cornell University) 
Accretion disk role in AGN (Collin & Hure 2001) 
November 16th 
Chris Springob, Jagadheep Pandian (Cornell Univ.)  
Massive BH and population III (Bromm et al. astro-ph/0102503 and Madau & Rees 2001, ApJ, 551, L27) 
November 23th 
Thanksgiving Break -- No Galaxy Lunch 
November 30th 
Prof. Richard Lovelace (Cornell University) 
Future Prospects: Why AGN Studies need higher resolution (Rees) 
December 7th 
Dr. JD Smith (Cornell University) 
Astronomy at Cornell: 1995-2001, my early years