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Stellar
Coffee Seminars: 2006
December
13, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christmas Quiz
November
29, Thomas Morris,
"Modelling eta Carinae"
November
22, Will Newton,
"Complex Microscopic Structure in Neutron
Stars and Supernovae"
November
15, Sadegh and Philipp,
"Discussion: Constraining Supernova Time Delays from Alpha Enhancements
(Continuation)"
November
8, Paul Goodall,
"Astronomy Using Protons"
November
1, Sadegh Khochfar, "Discussion:
Constraining Supernova Time
Delays from
Alpha Enhancements"
October
18, Justin Bronder, "Are High-z Type
Ia Supernovae
Different?"
October
11, Andrew Gosling, "Identifying the
Faint
Chandra X-Ray Sources near the Galactic Centre"
October
4,
Philipp Podsiadlowski,
"GRB 060614: Short, Long or in Between? Clues to a New Progenitor
Channel."
September
27, Thomas Morris, "The
Circumstellar Medium around Gamma-Ray
Bursts"
September
22, Sung-Chul Yoon, "Double
Degenerate
Mergers as Potential Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"
September
21, Paolo Mazzali, "Zorro:
Understanding Type Ia Supernovae"
September
13, Katrien Steenbrugge, "New
Observations of Cygnus A"
September
6, Stephen Justham,
"Report from Prague"
August
16, Shazrene Mohamed,
"Conference Report: Leicester"
August
9, Philipp Podsiadlowski,
"Cosmological Implications of the Second
Parameter of SN Ia Lightcurves"
August
2, Ian Heywood,
Conference Report: Cefalu (II)
July
26, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,
"GRBs and the complexity of stellar death"
July
19, Chris Wolf,
"The Metallicity Dependence of the GRB Rate"
July
12, Francisco Förster,
"Measuring w with SNAP?"
July
5, Stephen Justham,
"Escaping the explosion: understanding the progenitors of type Ia
supernovae
by hunting their runaway descendents."
June
28, Justin Bronder,
Cefalu Report and "Testing SNe Ia
as Cosmological Distance Candles"
June
21, Philipp Podsiadlowski,
"Explosive Common-Envelope Ejection: Low-Mass Black-Hole Binaries and
GRB progenitors"
June
14, Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
"Discussion: Pulsar Discoveries"
June
7, Linda Schmidtobreick,
"New Results on SS433"
May
30, Malvin Ruderman,
"Free Precession in Radio Pulsars?"
May
24, Stephan Geier,
"Spectroscopic Analysis of Subluminous B Stars in Binaries"
May
17, Zdenek Stuchlik,
"Humpy profiles of accretion disks around rapid Kerr black holes"
May
10, Kevin Schawinski,
"Discussion: the Origin of the Correlations between UV Emission and
Galaxy Properties"
May
3, Reba Bandyopadhyay, "A New Class
of High-Mass X-ray Binaries Lurking in the Galaxy"
Meetings in January - April were
organized by Stephen Justham