Past Speakers: 2016-2019

Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars of Overachieving Planets?

Dr. Eric Nielsen (Stanford / KIPAC)

December 6, 2019

Announcement


Probing Fundamental Physics with Strong Gravitational Lensing

Dr. Simon Birrer (Stanford / KIPAC)

November 1, 2019

Announcement


Lunar Landing Sites: Past and Future

Dr. Brian Day

October 5, 2019


Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons

Dr. Ross Beyer

September 6, 2019


Planetarium Show: Secret Lives of Stars (full dome video)

Prof. Darryl Stanford (CSM)

June 21, 2019


Keeping Moonwalkers Feet Dry: USS Hornet in the Apollo Program

Peter Shyvers

May 3, 2019


Near Earth Asteroid Hazards: Research and Space Missions

Dr. Michael Busch

March 1, 2019


Seeking Gravitational Waves: The Tao of LIGO

Dr. Brian Lantz

December 7, 2018


The Hunt for Planet Nine

Michael Medford

November 2, 2018


The Thrill of Discovery: Seeing Gravitational Waves and Light from a Neutron Star Collision

Dr. Mandeep Gill

October 5, 2018


Traversing the Northwest Passage by Humvee

Dr. Pascal Lee (The Mars Institute)

September 7, 2018


Another Pale Blue Dot: The SETI Institute’s Search for Exoplanets

Dr. Frank Marchis

May 4, 2018


Watching Our Universe Grow Up: Radio Snapshots Through Cosmic Time

Dr. Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley)

April 6. 2018


Enceladus: A Moon of Saturn with a Life of its Own?

Dr. Chris McKay (NASA Ames)

March 2, 2018


Direct Detection of Dark Matter

Kelly Stifter (Stanford)

February 2, 2018


Are Red Dwarf Planets Habitable?

Dr. Gibor Basri (UC Berkeley)

November 3, 2017


Finding Meteorites in Antarctica

Dr. Monika Kress (SJSU)

October 6, 2017


Finding Exoplanets with the Gemini Planet Imager

Dr. Vanessa Bailey (Stanford / KIPAC)

September 1, 2017


Exoplanet Double Header

Dr. Dan Fabrycky (U of Chicago), Dr. Steve Kawaler (Ohio State)

June 23, 2017


Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Dr. Mehmet Alpaslan

March 3, 2017


Using your Eyes and your Camera to get the most out of Solar Eclipses

Rob Hawley

May 5, 2017


Sunrise and Sunset Phenomena

Greg Edwards

February 3, 2017


Mars Trek: Online Exploration of Mars

Dr. Brian Day

December 2, 2016


Moons of Pluto

Dr. Ross Beyer

November 4, 2016

Announcement


Detection of Gravitational Waves

Dr. Peter Beyersdorf

October 8, 2016

Announcement


Demo of New Planetarium Projectors and Show

College of San Mateo

June 3, 2016


Exploding Stars: Dark Energy and the Death of the Universe

Dr. Brad Tucker

May 6, 2016

Announcement


River of Stars: Stellar Tidal Streams in Nearby Star Systems

R. Jay GaBany

April 1, 2016

Announcement


The Gemini Planet Imager

Dr. Eric Nielsen

March 4, 2016

Announcement


Are We Truly Alone? The Search for Life in the Universe

Dr. Lynn Rothschild (NASA Ames)

February 5, 2016

Announcement


The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Dr. Josh Meyers

November 6, 2015

Announcement


Polar Trek to Mars

Dr. Pascal Lee

October 2, 2015

Announcement


Speakers from 2001 to 2015.