Previous Stellar Coffee Seminars: 2007


December  18, 2007,  "Christmas Quiz"

December  11, 2007,  "Astro-ph journal club"

December  4, 2007,  Emma Walker, "Looking for Evolution in the Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae"

November 28, 2007,  Sebastian Perez, "Extinction in the Environment of Microquasars"

November 21, 2007,  Michael Colling, "Mid-Infrared Observations of the Wolf-Rayet Star Gamma Velorum"

November 14, 2007,  Shazrene Mohamed, "A Wonderful Tail: Mira's Mass-Loss History"

November 7, 2007,  Tony Bell,  "Cosmic Rays and Gamma-Ray Bursts"

October 31, 2007,  Kevin Schawinski et al., "Discussion: Discovery of the Shock Breakout in a Type II-P Supernova?"

October 24, 2007,  Stephen Justham, "Modelling X-ray Binary Populations"

October 17, 2007,  Paul Taylor, "Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts:  SPH simulations with Microphysics"

October 10, 2007,  Philipp Podsiadlowski, "The Progenitors of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts"

October 3, 2007,  "Discussion: A Bright MS Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin (Lorimer); The Circumstellar Environment of RS Oph (Patat)"

September 26, 2007, Philipp Podsiadlowski,  "The Formation of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars in Binaries (+ Tuebingen Report)"

September 19, 2007, Katrien Steenbrugge,  "The Intermittent and Precessing Jet of Cygnus A"

September 12, 2007, Jocelyn Bell Burnell,  "40 Years of Radio Pulsars (Montreal, Conference Report)" and Fraser Clarke, "First Light for the Global Jet Watch Spectrograph"

September 5, 2007, Danail Obreschkov,  "Statistical Evidence for Planetary Objects around Binary Systems"

August 29, 2007, Aris Karastergiou,  "The Shape of Radio Pulsar Beams"

August 22, 2007, Philipp Podsiadlowski,  "From Massive Stars to Supernova Remnants (Workshop Report, Leiden)"

August 15, 2007, Caroline Schoenaers and David Brown,  "Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects (Conference Report, Bamberg)"

August 1, 2007, Gilles Fontaine,  "Pulsating sdB Stars"

July 25, 2007, Jocelyn Bell Burnell,  "Astronomy in South Africa: Stars, Gas and Dust in Elliptical Galaxies"

July 18, 2007, Hakkim Aammar, "Ultra Wide-Field Astronomy: Detecting Optical Flashes from GRBs", and David Brown, "The Metallicity Dependence of the UV Upturn"

July 11, 2007, Antonio Pipino,  "Stars, Gas and Dust in Elliptical Galaxies"

July 4, 2007, Shazrene Mohamed,  "Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae (Conference Report, La Palma)"

June 27, 2007, Katrien Steenbrugge,  "NGC 4051"

June 20, 2007, Stephen Justham,  "RS Ophiuchi (Conference Report, Keele)"

June 6, 2007, Chiaki Kobayashi,  "Nucleosynthesis yields of core-collapse supernovae and hypernovae, and galactic chemical evolution"

May 30, 2007, Philipp Podsiadlowski,  "Conference Report: Pulsar Thaiming (Krabi)"

May 23, 2007, Paul Goodall,  "Discussion: Fundamentalist Physics: Why Dark Energy is bad for Astronomy (Simon White)"

May 16, 2007, John Swinbank,  "Lofar and the Transient Key Project"

May 9, 2007, Sushan Konar,  "The evolution of the magnetic fields of neutron stars"

May 2, 2007, Jocelyn Bell Burnell,  "Highlights from the NAM"

April 25, 2007, Francisco Foerster,  "Type Ia Supernovae (Conference Report, Santa Barbara)"

April 18, 2007, Katherine Blundell,  "Jets and Tori in Proto-Planetary Nebulae (astro-ph/0703569)"

April 11, 2007, Stephen Justham,  Video presentations from KITP workshop: "Accretion and Explosion: the Astrophysics of Degenerate Stars"

April 4, 2007, Jelle Kaastra,  "High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the Crab nebula with XMM-Newton"

March 28, 2007, Caroline Schoenaers,  "The pulsations of sdB stars"

March 21, 2007, Alak Ray,  "Discussion: Understanding the radio and X-ray emission from SN 1993J" and Katrien Steenbrugge, "Chandra observing proposal presentation"

March 14, 2007, Danail Obreschkov"The Cas A Supernova Remnant: Evidence for an Asymmetric Implosion"

March 7, 2007, Philipp Podsiadlowski,  "SN 1987A: 20 Years Later"

February 28, 2007, Tony Lynas-Gray,  "The Evolution of Extrememly Metal-Poor Stars"

February 21, 2007, Stephen Justham,  "Case C Mass Transfer as a Function of Metallicity"

February 14, 2007, Mike Bode,  "Discussion: RS Oph and GK Per"

February 7, 2007, Paul Taylor,  "An Introduction to SPH"

January 31, 2007, Shazrene Mohamed,  "Mira AB : Implications for the formation of bipolar planetary nebulae, Type Ia supernovae and Ba stars"

January 24, 2007, Stephen Justham,  "SN 2006X: Direct Evidence for a Non-degenerate Companion"

January 17, 2007, Katrien Steenbrugge,  "The Ubiquitous Hard X-ray Variability of the Galactic Bulge Sources"

January 10, 2007, Stephen Justham et al.,  Update on Astro-ph


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