Public Lectures Given in Powerpoint by Dr. Ronald J. Buta,
Professor of Astronomy, University of Alabama
Cosmic Catastrophes and Life on Earth - Presented
to Alabama Paleontological Society, Birmingham, Alabama, 2009
Pattern Speed and Galaxy Morphology - presented
at the University of Padova, Italy, summer 2008
Astronomy and the Coal Age of Alabama - presented
to the Birmingham Astronomical Society and to the Peach State Star Gaze 2008
Rendezvous with Birr Castle: A Visit to the Heart
of Early Irish Astronomy - Presented at Peach State Star Gaze, Deerlick Astronomy Village, 2008
Visual Astronomy from a Professional
Astronomer's Perspective - Presented at Annual General Meeting of the Webb Deep-Sky Observer's Society,
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, December 2007
Quantification of Bar Strength and the Structure
of Galaxies - Presented at Institute of Astronomy, Tenerife, Canary Islands June 2008
From the Age of Heroes: Gerard de Vaucouleurs and
the Universe - Presented to Atlanta Astronomy Club meeting, probably 2006
Galaxy Classification in the 21st Century: The Story Behind the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies - presented to the Birmingham Astronomical Society, 2006 or 2007
Documenting the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint
Site - presented at Geological Society of America Meeting, 2005 or 2006
Spiral Galaxies - presented to Birmingham Astronomical
Society several years ago
Secular Evolution and the Morphology of Galaxies - presented
at meeting in Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, Germany, in 2004
Gravitational Bar Torques in the Spiral/S0 Divide - presented
at a meeting held in South Africa in 2004
The Corotation Resonance and the Morphology of Galaxies (by X. Zhang and R. Buta) - presented at the University of Oulu, Finland, 2003 or 2004
Pre-Dinosaur Footprints in Alabama: Traces of a Forgotten Past - presented to the Birmingham Paleontological Society, possibly in 2001
Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama -
presented at the Bernard Price Institute of Paleontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa between 2001 and 2003
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