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presentation("May", "17", "Ross Gaunt", "Review and Comparison of Smart Telescopes");
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presentation("June", "15", "Dr. Nathan Golovich", "Black Holes as Dark Matter: How New Discoveries Are Reinvigorating Old Theories");
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presentation("March", "20", "Todd Rigg-Carriero, M.S.", "Citizen Science to the Rescue!", "talks/2015-03-20.pdf");
presentation("April", "17", "Dr. Julia Voge", 'Unraveling the High-Energy Universe with NuSTAR and Peering at the "Dark Side"');
presentation("May", "15", "Dr. Ruslan Belikov", "Beyond Kepler: Direct Imaging of Earth-like Exoplanets", "talks/2015-05-15.pdf");
presentation("June", "19", "Dr. Kim De Vries", "Space Debris");
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presentation("September", "18", "Jeff Baldwin", "Mirror-Making Machine, SIT Testing, and Shop Strategies", "http://jeffbaldwin.org");
presentation("October", "16", "Prof. Eric W. Harpell", "Not Quite Alone in a Sea of Star");
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presentation("March", "21", "Dr. Kenneth Lum", "Touring Antique Telescopes and Other Astronomical Sites Around the World");
presentation("April", "18", "Dr. Gregory Brennecka", "Evidence for Supernova Injection Into the Solar Nebula", "talks/2014-04-18.pdf");
presentation("May", "16", "Wil van Breugel", "Masks of the Cosmos");
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presentation("July", "18", "Dr. Kenneth Lum", "Historical Innovations in Telescope Technology in England in the 17th and 18th Century - A Tour with the Antique Telescope Society");
presentation("August", "15", "Dr. Don Dossa", "Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)");
presentation("September", "19", "Ken Sperber and others", "My Experiences with Astronomical League Observing Programs (Ken)", "talks/2014-09-19.pdf");
presentation("October", "17", "John Martin", "Galaxy Morphology and Composition");
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presentation("February", "15", "Prof. Steven Stahler", "The Birth of Star Clusters");
presentation("March", "18", "Dr. Kenneth Lum", "Bernhard Schmidt and his Camera");
presentation("April", "19", "Dr. Hilary Jones", "How I do Remote Astrophotography from the Comfort of my Home", "talks/2013-04-19/index.html");
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