October 2008 (Topic: Practical Astronomy – Starmaps and such)
June 2008 (Topic: Amateur Astronomy – Inspiration by Observation)
May 2008 (Topic: How to find Life in the Universe)
April 2008 (Topic: Dark Matter & Dark Energy – The Dark Side of the Universe)
March 2008 (Topic: Recent Advances in Astronomy – Part II)
February 2008 (Topic: Recent Advances in Astronomy – Part II)
November 2007 (Topic: Recent Advances in Astronomy - Introduction)
October 2007 (Topic: Atmospheric Histories - Or: Is the Greenhouse Effect positive or negative?)
May 2007 (Topic: From Galileo to Newton: The Birth of modern Astronomy – Part II)
April 2007 (Topic: Galileo and the Birth of modern Astronomy)
March 2007 (Topic: Life in the Universe)
February 2007 (Topic: Exoplanets – Orbiting other Suns)
November 2006 (Guest Lecture by Phil Barnhart: Westerville – A Center of 19^th Century Astronomy)
October 2006 (Topic: Solar System News: Pluto, Armageddon, etc.)
May 2006 (Topic: Introduction to Cosmology II)
April 2006 (Topic: Introduction to Cosmology)
March 2006 (Topic: Basic Observations in Astronomy)
February 2006 (Topic: Lifecycles of the Stars II)
January 2006 (Topic: Lifecycles of the Stars)
November 2005 (Topic: Classification of the Stars)
October 2005 (Topic: Observing the Planets)
June 2005 (Topic: Saturn - The ringed Planet)
May 2005 (Topic: History of Astronomy)
April 2005 (Topic: Spectra - Fingerprints of the Elements)
March 2005 (Topic: Mission to Mars)
February 2005 (Topic: Objects worthy to be observed)
January 2005 (Topic: Telescopes)
November 2004 (Topic: The Earth-Moon System)
October 2004 (Topic: What’s in Astronomy?)

The strange Case of Dr. Trittmann’s nebulous Pictures

Presentations (Powerpoint files)

Talk at Otterbein’s International Festival 2003: Post-Wall Germany
Introductory Talk: Supersymmetry
High School Lecture: Cosmology and the Big Bang
Alumni Weekend 2004: The Ohio Night Sky (incl. Venus transit photos)
Guest Lecture (Feb 8, 2005): Basic Observations in Astronomy (Eclipse Video, 2.9 MB)
Talk at the Columbus Astronomical Society (January 2006): What do we know about Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
Physics Coffee Talk (Feb 15, 2006): Solving Supersymmetric Theories on the Computer
Alumni Weekend 2007 – Classes without Quizzes: Basic Observations in Astronomy
Earthday 2007: Eclipses, Tides & a big Whack –The Earth-Moon System

Education

Ph.D. in Physics (1996)	Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg , Germany (Thesis Advisor: H-C Pauli)
Diploma in Physics (1993)	University of Heidelberg, Germany (Thesis Advisor: I. Bender)

Experience

Assistant Professor	Otterbein College	Since 9/2003
Visiting Assistant Professor	Otterbein College	1/2003 – 8/2003
Postdoctoral Research Associate	The Ohio State University	9/1999 - 12/2002
Postdoctoral Research Associate	Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel	6/1997 - 7/1999

Publications

A complete list is available from the database at SLAC.

Huntington (Card) CAS Astro

This document was last updated January 12, 2006.

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