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Stellar
Coffee Seminars: 2005
December
21, Jasinta Dewi,
"The Formation of Neutron-Star Binaries with Compact Companions"
December
14, Stephen Justham and Chris Wolf,
The Astronomy Christmas Quiz
December
7, Philipp Podsiadlowski,
"Discussion: The UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies"
November
30, Claudia Maraston,
"Discussion: Modelling Stellar Populations in Galaxies"
November
23, Kevin Schawinski,
"Discussion: Young Populations in Early-Type Galaxies"
November
16, Carole Jordan,
"Understanding the solar UV lines of He I and He II"
November
9, Justin Bronder,
"The Edinburgh Supernova Meeting" and Stephen Justham, "Glow from the
First Stars?"
November
2, Philipp Podsiadlowksi,
"Discussion: Novae and Type Ia Supernovae."
October
26, Jan-Uwe Ness,
"X-rays from T Tauri stars and the trouble with photon shot noise"
October
19, Rachel Koncewicz,
"Interpreting the OI emission spectra of cool stars"
October
12,
Philipp Podsiadlowski,
"Discussion: Can Double Degenerate Mergers Produce Type Ia Supernovae?"
October
5,
John Miller,
"The Blandford-Znajek Mechanism"
September
28,
Chris Wolf,
"An ultracool white dwarf serendipitously found with COMBO-17"
August
17,
Jan-Uwe Ness and Scott Watson,
"Neon and the Solar Abundance Mystery"
August
10,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
"Pulsar Evolution in the B-P Diagram"
July
27,
Paolo Mazzali et al.,
"Roundtable discussion: Gamma-Ray Bursts and Hypernovae"
July
20,
Justin Bronder,
"Highlights from a young researchers' network meeting on SNe Ia"
June
22,
Gary Da Costa,
"Abundance Anomalies in Globular Clusters"
June
15,
Caroline Schoenaers,
"Hot Subdwarfs: a Progress Report"
June
8,
Francisco Förster,
"The Time Delay of Type Ia Supernovae and the Cosmic Star Formation
History"
June
1,
Rob Detmers,
"Tidal Spin-Up and Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors"
May
25,
Urmila Mitra-Kraev, "X-ray
Oscillations
in Stellar Coronae"
May
18,
James Murray, "Disk with a Twist:
Warping
Disks with Irradiation" and Richard Henry, "Bright Light from the Dark Matter"
May
11,
Martin Beer, "Irradiation
of extra-solar hot Jupiters"
May
4,
Francisco Forster, "The
Puzzle of Cas A"
April
27,
Philipp Podsiadlowski, "The
Surviving Companion (?) in the
Tycho Supernova Remnant"
March
9,
Chris Wolf and Stephen Justham, "Playing
with MOND: a Tutorial"
March
2,
Scott Watson, "Solar Models in a
Crisis?"
February
23,
Jan-Uwe Ness, "The Nova V4743 Sgr
(2002) in Time:
The Chandra Monitoring Observations"
February
16,
Andrew Gosling, "Identifying the
Weak Chandra Sources
near the Galactic Centre"
February
9,
Andres Jordan,
"Puzzling Effects of the Globular
Cluster Metallicity"
February
2,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
"The Precession of the X-Ray Jet from
the Crab Pulsar"
Januar
28,
Jasinta Dewi,
"The Spin - Eccentricity Relation of
Double Neutron Star Binaries"
Januar
21,
Caroline Schoenaers,
"sdB Stars and their Pulsational
Properties"