Past Speakers
We have had many illustrious, and not-so-well-known Astronomers and Astronomy related individuals come to our General Meetings and talk to us about their current and past projects. Here is a partial list of those speakers...
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| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| April 24, 2007 |
What’s up: Nick Tsakoyias - The Great Greek Astronomers Guest speaker: Dr. Charles H. Townes. Nobel Prize in Physics: On the convergence of Science and Religion |
| May 22 |
What’s up: Jim Head - Outreach Program Guest speaker: Bruce Margon, UC Santa Cruz: Space Science Projects at NASA: Tall, Grande, or Vente? |
| June 26 |
What’s up: Lance Schlecter - What goes on at the Missile site of Vandenberg AFB. Guest speakers: Jeff Adkins & his Deer Valley High School Students: "Student Astronomers Share Award-Winning Projects” |
| July 24 |
What’s up: John Westfall - The Lunar eclipse of August Guest speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames: New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond |
| August 28 |
What’s up: Richard Ozer Guest speaker: R. Jay GaBany: “Remotely Possible” Adventures with Remote Telescopes |
| September 25 |
What’s up: Tom Harris - Adventures with his binoculars Guest speaker: Vic Marris, owner of Stellarvue Telescopes: World Class Refractors. |
| October 23 |
MDAS 50th Anniversary Celebration: * Mike Harms - “Then and now” |
| November 20 |
MDAS Swap Meet |
| December 18 |
Members meeting: - Board Elections, etc. Imaging group will do a “Show and Tell” |
| January 22, 2008 |
What's up: Ken Coates - What's new in solar
system exploaration Guest Speaker: Richard Crisp: Polarization Imaging |
| February 26 |
What's up: Michael Kran - Remote Telescopes up
close and personal Guest Speaker: John Dillon, Randall Museum: "When Astronomy became a Science" (at he Museum of Alexandria) |
| March 25 |
What's up: Liede-Marie Haitsma - You don't need
a telescope on Mt. Diablo Guest Speaker: Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos, UCLA & JPL, The search for the origin of space storms with NASA’s THEMIS mission |
| April 22 |
What's up: Marni Berendsen Guest Speaker: Ryan Wyatt, California Academy of Sciences: Plans for the new Morrison Planetarium |
| May 27 |
What's up: Vianney Serrier Guest Speaker: Jeff Adkins & the |
| June 24 |
What's up: Ralph Requa Guest Speaker: Dr. Puragra “Raja” Guhathakurta, Lick Observatory, “Journey Back to the Big Bang” |
| July 22 |
What's up: Members night Guest Speaker: Members Night: Telescope Clinic & Hands-on Workshops |
| August 26 |
What's up: Nathaniel Bates - Math in
Astronomy Guest Speaker: Jim Cottle - "The Launch of Apollo 11 and other Boyhood Adventures with Apollo Saturn Hardware" |
| September 23 |
What's up: Mark Stafforini - The Galileo
Exhibit at the Museo di Storia della Scienza (Museum of the
History of Science) in Florence Guest Speaker: Dr. Bryan Mendez of UC Berkeley - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mapping the Sky in Infrared Light. |
| October 28 |
What's up: Bob Minor -- Pictures from
the Eclipse Guest Speaker: Dr. Steven Stahler, UC Berkeley, "The Origin of Star Clusters" |
| November 18 |
What's up: Chuck Smith - Making
telescopes Guest Speaker: James Scala, "A comet changed the course of history in North America 12,000 years ago: How the Clovis People and Mammoths Disappeared." |
| December 16 |
Marni Berendsen, Celebrating the International Year of
Astronomy 2009
and Members Meeting & Board Election
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| January 27, 2009 |
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| February 24 |
Guest Speaker: Chris McKay, NASA |
| March 24 |
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| April 28 |
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| May 26 |
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| June 23 |
Movie Night: 400 Years of the Telescope Members Night |
| July 28 |
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| August 25 |
Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Jenniskens, NASA Ames: |