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September 3rd 

Ralph Shuping (Univ. of Colorado)
"A Direct Measure of the CO Depletion in the Taurus Dark Cloud" 

Prof. Martha Haynes (Cornell University) 
``Radio Constraints on the Identifications and Redshifts of Submm Galaxies'' by Smail et al. 1999 

Dr. Vassilis Charmandaris (Cornell University) 
`` First Extragalactic Direct Detection of Large-Scale Molecular Hydrogen in the Disk of NGC 891'', by Valentijn and van der Werf, 1999 (ApJL)  

Prof. Martha Haynes (Cornell University) 
``On the Nuclear Rotation Curve of M31'', by T. Statler (1999, ApJLett 523),  

Emily Stovel (Binghamton University) 
``Precolumbian Archeology of the Atacama Desert'' 

Neal Miller (NRAO-Socorro) 
``Radio Perspective on Star Formation in Nearby Abell Clusters'' 
(see also Andersen & Owen 1995, AJ 109,1582)

Jeremy Darling (Cornell University) 
The latest news on ALMA: A review of the workshop ``Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array'' 

Dr. Who (Closed Univ., UK) 
No lunch talk 

Prof. Riccardo Giovanelli (Cornell University) 
``On the origin of the [Spiral Galaxies and] Tully-Fisher relation'' by Koda, Sofue & Wada (ApJ submitted)  

Dr. Thomas Nikola (Cornell University) 
``Molecular Gas Depletion and Starbursts in Luminous Infrared Galaxy Mergers'', by Gao & Solomon (1999, ApJ 512, L99) 

Dave Kornreich (Cornell University) 
``On the lives of extra-galactic radio sources: the first 100,000 years'', by Snellen & Schilizze 

Prof. Martha Haynes (Cornell University) 
``Minor Merger Driven Nuclear Activity in Seyfert Galaxies'', by Taniguchi (1999, ApJ 524, L65) 

Thanksgiving Break -- No Galaxy Lunch 

Dr. Vassilis Charmandaris (Cornell University) 
``Discovery of molecular hydrogen in a high-velocity cloud of the Galactic halo'', by Richter et al. 1999, Nature 402, 386