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Date: Wednesday 8-May-96
Speaker: Joe Burns (Cornell U.)
Title:A Renaissance in Celestial Mechanics

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Date: Wednesday 11-Sep-96
Speaker: Michael F. A'Hearn
Title:Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp: Why Do We Care?

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Date: Wednesday 18-Sep-96
Speaker: Mark Dickinson (STScI)
Title:"Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters at Large Redshift"

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Date: Wednesday 25-Sep-96
Speaker: Prof. Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)
Title:"Accretion Flows Around Black Holes"

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Date: Wednesday 02-Oct-96
Speaker: Dr. Jean Swank (NASA-Goddard)
Title:Observing accreting compact stars with RXTE

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Date: Wednesday 09-Oct-96
Speaker: Prof. Roger Chevalier (University of Virginia)
Title:The Diversity of Supernovae: SN 1987A and SN 1993J

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Date: Thursday 24-Oct-96 (NOTE SPECIAL DAY)
Speaker: Dr. Robert Williams (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Title:"Recent Science Results from HST"

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Date: Wednesday 30-Oct-96
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Johnston (Scientific Director, U.S. Naval Observatory)
Title:Optical Interferometry At the Beginning of the Twentyfirst Century

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Date: Wednesday 06-Nov-96
Speaker: Dr. Pawan Kumar (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Title:"Orbital evolution of an unusual pulsar binary in the SMC and evidence for asymmetric supernova"

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Date: Wednesday 13-Nov-96
Speaker: Dr. Charles Bennett (GSFC)
Title:"The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) Mission"

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Date: Wednesday 20-Nov-96
Speaker: Prof. Peter L. Biermann (Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie)
Title:"The propagation of the highest energy particles in cosmic rays through the universe: Analogies to the interaction of the solar wind and the interstellar medium"

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Date: Wednesday 04-Dec-96
Speaker: Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA-Marshall)
Title:The bursting pulsar GRO J1744-28

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Date: Wednesday 11-Dec-96
Speaker: Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton University)
Title:Gravitational Lensing and the Nature of Dark Matter

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