Astrocoffee Talks: Current Research at IfA Manoa

Astrocoffee Talks

Current Research at IfA Manoa

10:30am Fridays
Moon Room

Talks are 15 minutes and informal.
Any format (slides, blackboard, powerpoint) is allowed.

Come and see what is happening at IfA Manoa!

Fall 2007 Schedule

Date	Name
24 Aug	Dave Jewitt
31 Aug	Joe Masiero
7 Sept	Jeff Taylor
14 Sept	Ann Boesgaard
21 Sept	John Johnson
28 Sept	Nuno Peixinho
5 Oct	Emily Levesque
12 Oct	Jeff Kuhn - "Optical Pumping"
19 Oct	Katelyn Allers
26 Oct	Brent Tully
2 Nov	Pedro Lacerda
9 Nov	Mark Willman
16 Nov	Dave Sanders
23 Nov	Thanksgiving
30 Nov	Astrobiology Talk
7 Dec	Jonathan Williams
14 Dec	Hai Fu
21 Dec	Zahed Wahhaj
28 Dec	Christmas!

Spring 2007 Schedule

Date	Name
5 Jan	Break - AAS
12 Jan	Bob Joseph
19 Jan	Norbert Schorghofer
26 Jan	Dave Tholen
2 Feb	Andrew Liddle
9 Feb	Harald Ebeling
16 Feb	David Harrington
23 Feb	John Rayner
2 March	Shadia Habbal
9 March	Nader Haghihipour
16 March	Olivier Ilbert
23 March	Henry Hsieh
30 March	David Harrington
5 April	Nick Kaiser (Thursday Astrocoffee, Friday Holiday)
13 April	Emeric LeFloc
20 April	Ann Boesgaard
27 April	Adrian Pope
4 May	Kathleen Robertson
11 May	Jonathon Swift
18 May	Dave Tholen
25 May	Dave Sanders

Fall 2006 Schedule

Date	Name	Title
1 Sept	Katelyn Allers	A Binary Planemo? I don't think so!
8 Sept	Nader Haghihipour	Heaven cannot brook two suns,..." (Alexander, The Great) - Is Al Right?
15 Sept	Josh Barnes	Merger Models
22 Sept	Zahed Wahhaj	Planetary Signatures in Debris Disks
29 Sept	Sean Andrews	TBD
6 Oct	Mark Neyrinck	TBD
13 Oct	Brian Stalder	TBD
20 Oct	Helene Courtois	TBD
27 Oct	Lisa Kewley	TBD
3 Nov	Jonathan Williams	TBD
10 Nov	Dave Sanders	TBD
17 Nov	Jacqueline Keane	TBD
24 Nov	No Astrocoffee	Thanksgiving
1 Dec	Len Cowie	TBD
8 Dec	Bob Joseph	TBD
15 Dec	Ana Maria Teodores	TBD
22 Dec	No Astrocoffee	Christmas

Special Summer 2006 Schedule

Date	Name	Title
9 June	Harald Ebeling
16 June	Trent Dupuy
23 June	Dave Harrington
30 June	Lisa Chien
7 July	Wei-Hao Wang
14 July	Mark Pitts
21 July	Sarah Jaeggli
28 July	Liz McGrath
4 August	Steve Rodney

Spring 2006 Schedule

Date	Name	Title
13 Jan	Esther Hu	High Redshift Galaxies
20 Jan	Miguel Urbaneja
27 Jan	Harald Ebeling
3 Feb	Fabrizio Bernardi
10 Feb	Roberto Mendez
17 Feb	Wei-Hao Wang
24 Feb	Tobias Owen	A frozen Echo of the Early Earth:Exploring Titan with Cassini-Huygens
3 March	Luca Rizzi
10 March	John Tonry
17 March	Dave Jewitt	They May be Evian
24 March		Brent Tully
31 March	Pedro Lacerda	Consider a Triaxial Cow: Lightcurves of "Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium"
7 April	Amy Barger	AGNs Phone Home:Radio Contact from Missing AGNs
14 April	Good Friday	No Astrocoffee
21 April	Jim Heasley	TBD
28 April	Ann Boesgaard	When the 'Lights' go down...
5 May	Jan Kleyna
12 May	Istvan Szapudi
19 May	Evgenya Shkolnik
26 May	Huw Morgan
2 June	Karen Meech	Rocks 'n Comets: Plans for some Deep Mantle Astronomy

Fall 2005 Schedule

Date	Name	Title
2 Sept	Larry Denneau	The MOPS Solar System Simulation
9 Sept	Paul Price	The Short Story
16 Sept	Ann Boesgaard	Lithium in Very Metal-Poor Stars
23 Sept	Jing Li	Magnetic Field Ambiguities
30 Sept	Brent Tully	Invisible Galaxies
7 Oct	Lisa Kewley	The Cosmic Metallicity History or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the data
14 Oct	Jeff Kuhn	Gale Force Winds and Ambipolar Diffusion on the Sun
21 Oct	Robert Jedicke	Bumping and Grinding in the Solar System: The Size Distribution of Cometary Nucleii
28 Oct	John Tonry	cancelled
4 Nov	Dave Sanders	cancelled
11 Nov	Holiday
18 Nov	Mike Liu	GQ Lup B: First Exoplanet Directly Imaged,or Just Another Darn Brown Dwarf?
25 Nov	No Astrocoffee	Thanksgiving
2 Dec	Rolf Kudritzki	TBD
9 Dec	Dave Sanders	TBD
16 Dec	Paul Coleman	TBD
23 Dec	No Astrocoffee	Christmas

Spring 2005 Schedule

Date	Name	Title
25 Feb	Josh Barnes	Dynamical/Photometric Models of Interacting Galaxies
4 March	Dave Jewitt	Thermal Diffusivity and Me: A Brief Rant
11 March	Ann Boesgaard	New Light on the Light Elements
18 March	Yan Fernandez	Confessions of an Enckeholic: Recent Work on the Unusual Comet 2P/Encke
25 March	Easter Friday, Spring Break
1 April	Pat Henry	The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium Associated with the Coma Cluster
8 April	Bob McLaren	Site Testing on the Mauna Kea Northwest Plateau
15 April	No Astrocoffee this week!
22 April	Shadia Habbal	Fluorescence from interplanetary dust in the solar corona?
29 April	Bob Joseph	Measuring extinction in infrared galaxies
6 May	Tommie Grav	From Phoebe to Skathi: the Irregular satellites of Saturn
13 May	Rolf Kudritzki	A new distance to M33 from an eclispsing O-star binary system
20 May	Amy Barger	TBD
27 May	Audrey Delsanti	TBD
3 June	Len Cowie	Galaxy Bolometry
10 June	Jonathan Williams	Catching Small Waves on the Big Island
17 June	Alan Tokunaga	TBD
24 June	Andi Mahdavi	TBD
1 July	Alan Stockton	TBD
Summer Break: Astrocoffee to resume @ end of August

If you aren't on this list, we want you to give a talk in the Fall! email Lisa Kewley, Nader Haghighipour, or Katelyn Allers to schedule your astrocoffee talk or wait until we come knocking...