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Guest Speaker History

Below are tables that contain a history of the Observatory Open House Guest Speakers. Blanks simply mean that I don't have a copy of the schedule for that semester. Greyed out names are folks who were scheduled to speak, but the Open House was canceled due to severe weather (heavy snow, hurricane, etc). If you have a correction or a copy of one of the missing schedules, please forward to Elizabeth Warner.

Word document of schedules (includes talk titles)

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan 5 Kelly Fast Elizabeth Warner Greg Piepol David Ludwikoski Patrick Harrington
Jan 20 Lee Mundy Rachel Kuzio de Naray Rachel Osten Matthew Zagursky Elizabeth Warner
Feb 5 Cole Miller W.T. Bridgman Jessica Sunshine Rosemary Killen Chris Reynolds
Feb 20 Barbara Mattson Jane Gilhooly Conor Nixon Lucy McFadden Lisa Wei
Mar 5 Elizabeth Warner Ke Zhang Rosemary Killen Elizabeth Warner Joe Lazio
Mar 20 Rosemary Killen Bhaswati Mookerjea Elizabeth Warner Misty LaVigne Misty LaVigne
Apr 5 Mike A'Hearn Melissa Hayes-Gehrke Marc Pound Matthew Knight Megan DeCesar
Apr 20 Andrew Baker Derek Richardson Lisa Winter Tim Livengood Mia Bovill
May 5 Grace Deming Olivier Groussin Melissa Hayes-Gehrke Mia Bovill Gerald Share
May 20 Tony Farnham Matthew Knight Xi Shao Cole Miller Rob Olling
Jun 5 Suchitra Balachandran Lori Feaga Lucy McFadden Tony Farnham
Jun 20 Kevin Rauch Doug Hamilton Ludmilla Kolokolova David Rupke
Jul 5 Sylvain Veilleux Elizabeth Warner Tamara Bogdanovic Kevin Rauch
Jul 20 Melissa Hayes-Gehrke Anita Krishnamurthi Ed Shaya Nancy Grace Roman
Aug 5 Nehanda Tankasala Greg Redfern Claudia Knez Rosemary Killen
Aug 20 Elizabeth Warner Matthew Burger Lori Feaga Sean O'Neill
Sep 5 Cole Miller Cole Miller Cole Miller Massimo Ricotti
Sep 20 Massimo Ricotti David Rupke Alan Peel Derek Richardson Fred Hickok
Oct 5 Elizabeth Warner Daniel Jontof-Hutter John Vernaleo Stacy Teng
Oct 20 Andrew Baker Megan DeCesar Sten Odenwald Eric Winter
Nov 5 Ed Shaya Mia Bovill Elizabeth Warner Elizabeth Warner
Nov 20 Barbara Mattson Andrew Johnston Ted Jacobson Paul Hueper
Dec 5 Stacy McGaugh Elizabeth Warner (Rosemary Killen) Cole Miller
Dec 20 Lucy McFadden Phil Wherry Dongchan Kim Alberto Bolatto
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Jan 5 Gretchen Walker video Cole Miller (Andrew Harris) Tony Farnham
Jan 20 video Peter Teuben John Obrecht Elizabeth Warner Stacy McGaugh
Feb 5 Cole Miller Dana Crider Sylvain Veilleux Stacy McGaugh Peter Teuben
Feb 20 AstroTerps Mukul Kundu David Neufeld (Derek Richardson) David Rupke
Mar 5 Lee Mundy David Smith Derek Richardson Elizabeth Warner Lucy McFadden
Mar 20 Gretchen Walker Derek Richardson David Smith Suchitra Balachandran Lee Mundy
Apr 5 Stacy McGaugh James Stone Stephen White Lucy McFadden Dennis Papadapolous
Apr 20 James Stone Mike Barker, Ross Henry, Stacy Teng Mousumi Das Amy Simon-Miller Matthew Knight
May 5 Sylvain Veilleux Sylvain Veilleux Marc Pound Elizabeth Warner Elizabeth Warner
May 20 Kartik Sheth
Neal Turner		 Cole Miller James Stone Dennis Wellnitz Doug Hamilton
Jun 5 Stephen Kortenkamp Dennis Wellnitz Neal Turner Grace Deming Cole Miller
Jun 20 Cole Miller John Hillman Ed Schmahl Doug Hamilton Ed Shaya
Jul 5 Eve Ostriker Derek Richardson Kelly Fast Elizabeth Warner Amy Simon-Miller
Jul 20 Stephen White Lee Mundy Eve Ostriker Kelly Fast Sylvain Veilleux
Aug 5 Ed Schmahl Mike Asbury Fred Berendse Kevin Rauch Marc Pound
Aug 20 Andy Young Casey Lisse Kevin Rauch Derek Richardson Rosemary Killen
Sep 5 Lucy McFadden Andy Young Grace Deming Cole Miller Elizabeth Warner
Sep 20 Suchitra Balachandran Virginia Trimble David Devorkin (Greg Redfern) Elizabeth Warner
Oct 5 Andrew Harris Elizabeth Warner Stef McLaughlin Stef McLaughlin David Rupke
Oct 20 Marv Leventhal Gretchen Walker Cole Miller Ed Schmahl Chris Reynolds
Nov 5 Virginia Trimble Lee Mundy Virginia Trimble Virginia Trimble Chul Gwon
Nov 20 Stacy McGaugh Stacy McGaugh Rosemary Killen Lisa Mazzuca Barry McKernan
Dec 5 Grace Deming Andrew Harris (Derek Richardson) (Tony Farnham) Derek Richardson
Dec 20 Patrick Harrington Casey Lisse Elizabeth Warner Elizabeth Warner Doug Hamilton
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Jan 5 - Yan Fernandez - - -
Jan 20 - N. Gopalswamy Doug Hamilton Lucy McFadden -
Feb 5 - Donat Wentzel Ed Schmahl Ed Schmahl Patrick Shopbell
Feb 20 - Pedro Safier Mike A'Hearn Mike Stark Mike Stark
Mar 5 - Sylvain Veilleux Lee Mundy Doug Hamilton Surjalal Sharma
Mar 20 - Roger Bell Lucy McFadden Casey Lisse Mike Asbury
Apr 5 - John Wang John Wang Eve Ostriker The Chromatics
Apr 20 - Doug Hamilton Eve Ostriker John Wang Stuart Vogel
May 5 - James Stone James Stone James Stone Lucy McFadden
May 20 - Marv Leventhal Mukul Kundu Grace Deming John Trasco
Jun 5 - Lee Mundy - Sylvain Veilleux Sylvain Veilleux
Jun 20 - Chuck Dorcey Sylvain Veilleux Kevin Rauch Kevin Rauch
Jul 5 - Casey Lisse - - -
Jul 20 - Andrew Wilson Marcus Aschwanden - AstroTerps
Aug 5 - Suchitra Balachandran Ed Grayzeck John Trasco David Neufeld
Aug 20 - Ed Grayzeck Siobhan Dinyes Marc Pound Grace Deming
Sep 5 Peter Leonard Markus Aschwanden Andrew Harris Beth Hufnagel Lee Mundy
Sep 20 Markus Aschwanden Stephen White John Trasco Mukul Kundu Andrew Harris
Oct 5 Surjalal Sharma Mark Houdashelt Andrew Wilson Lee Mundy Patrick Harrington
Oct 20 Grace Deming Stuart Vogel Lee Mundy Marv Leventhal Marv Leventhal
Nov 5 Virginia Trimble - Virginia Trimble Virginia Trimble Doug Hamilton
Nov 20 Peter Teuben - Roger Bell Mark Wolfire Lucy McFadden
Dec 5 Mukul Kundu - Dennis Papadopoulos Johannes Staguhn Marc Pound
Dec 20 Patrick Harrington - Patrick Harrington Stephen White Patrick Shopbell

Guest Speaker History, part 2

So how do the names stack up?? Taking the info from the schedules (above tables) and the current faculty list, here's another table!

Key:
   * = one open house
   @ = openhouse canceled
   # = upcoming

Current faculty, postdocs, grads,...
part of department since name number of OH presentations since 1995 number of MC events since fall 2001
  AstroTerps * * --
  Mike A'Hearn * * --
  Suchitra Balachandran * * * * --
emeritus Roger Bell * * --
  Sudip Bhattacharyya   --
  Tamara Bogadanovic * --
  Alberto Bolatto # --
grad Mia Bovill * * # * * * * * * *
grad
2008-		 Che-Yu Chen   #
grad
2007-		 Jamie Cohen   #
grad
2005-		 Megan DeCesar * # * * * * * *
  Grace Deming * * * * * * * --
  Andrew Ducore   --
  Tony Farnham @ * * * --
postdoc Lori Feaga * * --
grad
2007-		 Jithin George   * #
grad Alan Gersch   * * *
grad Mike Gill   * * #
grad
2007-		 Josh Goldstein   ^
postdoc Thejappa Golla   --
grad Hao Gong   * #
  Laura Hainline --
  Doug Hamilton * * * * * * * * --
grad
2008-		 Jee-hye Han   #
  Patrick Harrington * * * * # --
  Andrew Harris * * * * @ --
  Melissa Hayes-Gehrke * * * --
grad
2008-		 Kari Helgason   #
grad Edmund Hodges-Kluck   * * * #
  Tracy Huard --
postdoc Neeraj Jain   --
  Hannah Jang-Condell --
grad
2005-		 Daniel Jontof-Hutter * * * * #
  Rosemary Killen * * * * @ * * --
  Dongchan Kim * --
  Claudia Knez * --
  Ludmilla Kolokolova * --
grad
2005-		 Michael Koss   * #
  Hiroshi Koyama   --
grad
2007-		 Hannah Krug   #
grad Sidharth Kumar   * * #
emeritus Mukul Kundu * * * * --
  Thierry Lanz   --
grad Vanessa Lauberg   * *
grad Misty LaVigne * # * * *
emeritus Marv Leventhal * * * * --
postdoc Jianyang Li   * * *
grad
2008-		 Alex McCormick   #
grad
2007-		 Michael McDonald   ^ #
  Lucy McFadden * * * * * * * * * *
 --
  Stacy McGaugh * * * * * * --
  Stef McLaughlin * * --
  Gennady Milikh   --
  Cole Miller * * * * * * * * * *
* *		 --
  Bhaswati Mookerjea * --
  Nelly Mouawad --
  Lee Mundy * * * * * * * * * * --
adjunct David Neufeld * * --
  Conor Nixon * --
  Robert Olling # --
  Sean O'Neill * --
  Rachel Osten * --
  Eve Ostriker * * * * --
  Dennis Papadopoulos * * --
grad Kwangho Park   * * #
grad
2008-		 Dheeraj Pasham #
  Alan Peel * --
grad Randall Perrine   * * * * #
grad Catherine Philpott   * #
grad Emil Polisensky   #
  Marc Pound * * * * * --
grad
2005-		 Yana Radeva   * * * #
  Kevin Rauch * * * * * * --
  Anne Raugh   --
  Chris Reynolds * # --
  Derek Richardson * * * @ @ * * * * --
  Massimo Ricotti * * --
  Paul Romani   --
  William Rose   --
postdoc David Rupke * * * * --
visiting Leslie Sage   --
grad
2005-		 Stephen Schwartz   * #
postdoc Xi Shao * * *
  Gerald Share # --
  Surjalal Sharma * * --
  Edward Shaya * * * --
grad
2007-		 Holly Sheets   * #
grad
2008-		 Shaye Storm #
  Jessica Sunshine * --
  Rob Swaters   --
grad Stacy Teng * * * * * * *
  Peter Teuben * * * --
postdoc Brian Thomas   --
  John Trasco * * * --
  Sylvain Veilleux * * * * * * * * * --
  Stuart Vogel * * --
postdoc Kevin Walsh   * * *
09/2000 -- Elizabeth Warner * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * #		 --
grad Lisa Wei # * * * *
  Dennis Wellnitz * * --
emeritus Donat Wentzel * --
  Stephen White * * * * --
grad
2005-		 Eric Winter * * *
  Mark Wolfire * --
  Yuxuan Yang   * *
Matthew Zagursky * --
grad Ashley Zauderer   * * * ^ #
grad Stephanie Zonak   * * * * ^

Outsiders
  Chromatics *
  W.T. Bridgman *
GSFC Matthew Burger *
NASM David Devorkin *
  Chuck Dorcey *
CCBC Fred Hickok #
NOVAC, SSA Paul Hueper *
Physics Ted Jacobson *
NASM Andrew Johnston *
GSFC Anita Krishnamurthi *
NRL Joe Lazio #
USRA Tim Livengood *
  Doug Love  
CCBC David Ludwikoski *
GSFC Sten Odenwald *
NOVAC Greg Piepol *
SSA Greg Redfern @ *
NASA (ret), NCA Nancy Grace Roman *
NOVAC Phil Wherry *
Key:
   * = one open house
   @ = openhouse canceled
   # = upcoming

Last Updated: Monday December 15, 2008 by Elizabeth Warner
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