Presentations by Armagh Observatory Staff 2004


Date				Speaker	Location	Title

Wed	21	Jan	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan	Subdwarf B Stars
Thu	29	Jan	2004	I. Ugarte	University of Central Lancashire, England	Coronal Bright Points: A Species in the Solar Zoo
Fri	6	Feb	2004	Y. Taroyan	N+N Workshop for Young Researchers, Budapest	Global Oscillations and the Magnetic Atmosphere of the Sun
Sat	7	Feb	2004	C.J. Butler	A Radio Telescope for Ireland Meeting, Birr Castle	Research on Spotty Stars at Armagh -- and links with Radio Astronomy
Sat	7	Feb	2004	I. Ugarte	A Radio Telescope for Ireland Meeting, Birr Castle	The Sun Observed in Radio
Fri	13	Feb	2004	C.S. Jeffery	RAS Discussion Meeting, London	Multicolour Photometry and Mode Identification in Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars
Mon	16	Feb	2004	C.S. Jeffery	IoA Stellar Evolution Group Seminar, Cambridge	BILyncis
Wed	18	Feb	2004	C.S Jeffery	IoA Lunchtime Seminar, Cambridge	ULTRACAM Observations of Pulsating sdB Stars
Wed	18	Feb	2004	M.D. Smith	University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield	The Origin of Stars
Wed	18	Feb	2004	I. Ugarte	Armagh Observatory	Coronal Bright Points, Another Oscillating Environment
Mon	23	Feb	2004	C.S. Jeffery	IoA Stellar Evolution Group Seminar, Cambridge	Helium Stars
Wed	25	Feb	2004	C.J. Butler	Phenology Meeting, Botanic Gardens, Dublin	Proposed Phenology Garden at Armagh Observatory
Mon	8	Mar	2004	C.S. Jeffery	IoA Stellar Evolution Group Seminar, Cambridge	PG1544+488
Tue	9	Mar	2004	C.S. Jeffery	IoA Lunchtime Seminar, Cambridge	White Dwarf Mergers and their Progeny
Wed	10	Mar	2004	M.E. Bailey	Armagh Observatory	The Origin of Comets: New Perspectives and the Oort Cloud
Fri	12	Mar	2004	W.M. Napier	Steward Observatory, Tucson, USA	Redshift Periodicity
Fri	12	Mar	2004	M.E. Bailey	The Harold Jeffreys Lecture, RAS, London	The Origin of Comets and the Oort Cloud
Mon	15	Mar	2004	C.S. Jeffery	IoA Stellar Evolution Group Seminar, Cambridge	V652Her
Wed	24	Mar	2004	M.D. Smith	University of Cape Town, Cape Town	The Origin of Stars
Sat	27	Mar	2004	A. Ahmad	Armagh Observatory	The Life of Stars
Mon	29	Mar	2004	Y. Taroyan	MIST/UKSP Meeting, Edinburgh	Modelling Slow Standing Waves in Stratified Coronal Structures
Tue	30	Mar	2004	M.D. Popescu	MIST/UKSP Meeting, Edinburgh	Low Atmospheric Signature of the Fast Solar Wind in Coronal Holes
Tue	30	Mar	2004	I. Ugarte	MIST/UKSP Meeting, Edinburgh	Coronal Bright Points and the Chromospheric Network: Oscillations Link?
Tue	30	Mar	2004	L.D. Xia	MIST/UKSP Meeting, Edinburgh	Dynamic Properties of Solar Spicules Observed by SUMER/SOHO
Fri	2	Apr	2004	A. Ahmad	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	The Story of PG1544+488: a Double Helium-Rich Subdwarf
Fri	2	Apr	2004	C.S. Jeffery	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	The Last Stages of Stellar Evolution
Fri	2	Apr	2004	Y. Taroyan	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	Excitation and Damping of Longitudinal Coronal Loop Oscillations
Fri	2	Apr	2004	M. Smith	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	Jets from Comets
Fri	2	Apr	2004	L.D. Xia	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh,	Coronal Holes and the Origin of the Fast Solar Wind
Sat	3	Apr	2004	A. Christou	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	The Dynamical Stirring of the Irregular Prograde Satellites of Jupiter
Sat	3	Apr	2004	J. McAuliffe	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	Meteors on Venus
Sat	3	Apr	2004	W.M. Napier	ASGI/IOPI Spring Meeting 2004, Armagh	Extreme Albedo Comets and the Celestial Hazard
Tue	6	Apr	2004	A. Ahmad	Isaac Newton Group Seminar, La Palma	Helium-Rich Subdwarf B Stars: Binaries, Mergers or Bizarre?
Tue	6	Apr	2004	N.T. Behara	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Continuous Opacities in STERNE
Tue	6	Apr	2004	C.J. Butler	Armagh Observatory	Armagh Meteorological Programme
Wed	14	Apr	2004	W.M. Napier	Irish Astronomical Association, Belfast	Children of the Galaxy
Fri	23	Apr	2004	A. Christou	2004 Annual DDA Meeting, Cannes, France	The Gravitational Stirring of the Irregular Prograde Satellites of Jupiter
Fri	30	Apr	2004	W.M. Napier	Armagh Observatory	Dark Halleys and Panspermia
Wed	5	May	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Armagh Observatory	Ultracam Observations of Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars
Wed	26	May	2004	A. Ahmad	South African Astronomical Observatory Seminar, Cape Town	Understanding the Helium-Rich Subdwarf B Stars
Mon	7	Jun	2004	D.J. Asher	Armagh Observatory	Numerology of Venus Transits
Tue	8	Jun	2004	C.J. Butler	Transits of Venus Colloquium, University of Central Lancashire	Observations of Planetary Transits Made in Ireland in the 18th Century and their Influences on the Development of Astronomy in Ireland
Tue	8	Jun	2004	C.-H. Lin	Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands	Observed Heavy-Element Effects in the Equation of State
Wed	9	Jun	2004	N.T. Behara	Armagh Observatory (Differentiation Presentation)	The Atmospheres of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars
Wed	9	Jun	2004	B. Ishak	Armagh Observatory (Differentiation Presentation)	The Importance of Small-Scale Dynamic Features in the Heating of the Outer Solar Atmosphere
Thu	10	Jun	2004	W.M. Napier	College de France, Paris	A Statistical Evaluation Anomalous Redshift Claims
Fri	2	Jul	2004	A. García Suárez	Holivar Meeting, Ghent, Belgium	Non-Annually Resolved Proxy Climate Records
Wed	21	Jul	2004	C.S. Jeffery	14th Euro. W'shop on White Dwarfs, Kiel, Germany	Spectroscopic Analysies of Helium-Rich Subdwarf B Stars
Fri	23	Jul	2004	C.S. Jeffery	14th Euro. W'shop on White Dwarfs, Kiel, Germany	Mode Identification in Pulsating sdB stars from Ultracam Observations
Tue	27	Jul	2004	M.D. Popescu	Astron. Inst. of the Romanian Acad., Bucharest	Fast Solar Wind and its Origins from the Low Solar Atmosphere
Thu	12	Aug	2004	J.P. McAuliffe	Armagh Observatory	Meteors in the Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
Wed	14	Jul	2004	I. Ugarte	Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain	Coronal Bright Points and the Chromospheric Network: Oscillation link?
Mon	16	Aug	2004	A. Christou	Meteoroids 2004 Conf., London, Ontario, Canada	Meteor Showers at the Nearest Planets: Prospects and Opportunities
Wed	18	Aug	2004	J.P. McAuliffe	Meteoroids 2004 Conf., London, Ontario, Canada	Modelling Meteor Phenomena in the Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets
Thu	26	Aug	2004	M.D. Smith	Armagh Observatory	The Formation of Stars of Low Mass
Wed	1	Sep	2004	M.D. Smith	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn	The Motions of Jets in Protostellar Environments
Sat	4	Sep	2004	D.J. Asher	IAU Colloquium 197, Belgrade	The Dynamical Structure of Meteor Streams and Meteor Shower Predictions
Mon	6	Sep	2004	Y. Taroyan	University of Wales, Aberystwyth	MHD Waves in the Solar-Terrestrial Environment
Tue	7	Sep	2004	E. O'Shea	University of St. Andrews, Scotland	Variation of Line Widths in Coronal Off-Limb Regions
Wed	8	Sep	2004	M.D. Smith	Bonn Colloquium	Star Formation Modes in the Rosette Molecular Clouds
Fri	10	Sep	2004	A. Christou	ASGI, University College Dublin	Meteor Shower Forecasts in the Venusian Atmosphere
Fri	10	Sep	2004	M.D. Popescu	ASGI, University College Dublin	How Long Does a Spicule Live?
Fri	10	Sep	2004	Y. Taroyan	ASGI, University College Dublin	Excitation and Damping of Hot Coronal Loop Oscillations: Observations versus Theory
Thu	16	Sep	2004	M.D. Smith	JENAM, Granada	Bispectrum Speckle Interferometry of the Massive Protostellar Outflow Source IRAS 23151+5912
Wed	22	Sep	2004	M.E. Bailey	The Ronnie Ormond Lecture, IAA, Belfast	The Origin of Comets and the Oort Cloud
Tue	28	Sep	2004	C.J. Butler	Phenology in Ireland Meeting, Armagh Observatory	Armagh Phenology Garden
Tue	28	Sep	2004	A. García Suárez	Phenology in Ireland Meeting, Armagh Observatory	Influence of Climate Variables on Tree-rings
Wed	29	Sep	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	SFIT I: How do the Properties of a Star Affect its Spectrum?
Wed	29	Sep	2004	T. Sahin	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	CCD Photometry of ROSAT X-Ray Source: RX J1643.7+3402
Sat	2	Oct	2004	M.D. Popescu	Summer School, Copanello, Calabria, Italy	Small-Scale Dynamics in a Polar Coronal Hole
Mon	4	Oct	2004	J. McFarland	East Antrim Astronomical Society, Ballyclare	Some Astronomical Cover-ups: Occultations
Tue	5	Oct	2004	N.T. Behara	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Opacity Sampling in STERNE
Tue	12	Oct	2004	A. Ahmad	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	LS IV-14 116: A Pulsating He-sdB Star
Thu	14	Oct	2004	A. García Suárez	Induction Day for Postgrads, QUB	Influence of Climate Variables on Tree-Rings
Thu	14	Oct	2004	M.D. Popescu	Faculty of Science and Agriculture, QUB	The Origins of the Fast Solar Wind
Mon	18	Oct	2004	M.D. Smith	Centro studi Santa Maria Maddalena, Volterra, Tuscany, Italy	Unbiased Surveys of `Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: IMF, Accretion and Activity'
Tue	19	Oct	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	SFIT II: Applications and Documentation
Tue	19	Oct	2004	T. Sahin	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Short-Time Variability of AGB Stars
Wed	3	Nov	2004	C. Winter	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Pointers and Partition Trees in Fortran90
Fri	5	Nov	2004	B. Ishak	Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia	The Importance of Small-Scale Dynamic Features in the Heating of the Outer Solar Atmosphere
Tue	9	Nov	2004	A. Ahmad	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Astronomical Data Formats and Headers
Thu	11	Nov	2004	A. Ahmad	Armagh Observatory -- visit by students from the Institute for Lifelong Learning, QUB	Stellar Evolution: The Story from Birth to Death
Thu	11	Nov	2004	A. Christou	Armagh Observatory -- visit by students from the Institute for Lifelong Learning, QUB	Eclipses and Occultations
Thu	11	Nov	2004	M.D. Popescu	Armagh Observatory -- visit by students from the Institute for Lifelong Learning, QUB	A Travel Through the Sun
Fri	12	Nov	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	Asteroseismology of Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars
Mon	15	Nov	2004	I. Ugarte	Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA	Brightness and Magnetic Evolution of Solar Coronal Bright Points
Wed	24	Nov	2004	A. Christou	Armagh Observatory	Himalia Jostles its Children: The Story of an Irregular Satellite Family of Jupiter
Mon	29	Nov	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Armagh Observatory Stellar Physics Group	Asteroseismology of Subluminous B stars
Wed	8	Dec	2004	C.S. Jeffery	Naini Tal, India	Observations and Theory of Pulsations in sdB Stars
Thu	9	Dec	2004	C.J. Butler	Modelling Climate Change Meeting, University College Dublin	The Armagh Climate Series -- Possible Links to Solar Activity and the Cosmic Ray Cloud Connection
Wed	15	Dec	2004	C.J. Butler	IAA, Belfast,	Heritage Lottery Fund Telescopes and Domes Project
Wed	15	Dec	2004	M.D. Smith	Astro-Lunch Talk, Library, Armagh Observatory	Informal Thoughts on Planetary Formation
Tue	21	Dec	2004	M.D. Smith	Ringberg Workshop on Planet Formation	Connecting the Rate of Protostar Mass Accretion to the Nature of Planet Formation