Colloquia Spring 2012
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Colloquia: Spring 2012


DATE SPEAKER INSTITUTE TITLE HOST
Wed
18
Jan
Eric Hilton IfA Characteristics of M Dwarf Stars: Exoplanet Implications Eric Gaidos
Wed
25
Jan
Yancy Shirley Steward Observatory The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey - A Census of Embedded Star Formation in the Milky Way Jonathan Williams
Wed
1
Feb
Andreea Petric Caltech Mid-Infrared and Millimeter Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies Bob Joseph
Wed
8
Feb
Michael Chauvin Hawaii The 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Hawaii Gareth Wynn-Williams
Thu
9
Feb
Andrew Howard UC Berkeley Origins and Properties of Super-Earths and Neptune-size Planets

Seminar 2/10: Small planets are common, and other lessons from Doppler and Transit Surveys

Jonathan Williams
Mon
13
Feb
Andrew Benson Caltech Galaxy Formation Theory: The Next Decade

Seminar 2/14: Robust astrophysical constraints on dark matter phenomenology

Istvan Szapudi
Thu
16
Feb
Amy Mainzer JPL The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer: Greatest Hits

Seminar 2/17: Asteroid Mining: Finding Treasure in the WISE Dataset

Karen Meech
Tue
21
Feb
Brad Cenko UC Berkeley Alan Tokunaga
Thu
23
Feb
Sarah Dodson-Robinson University of Texas Planetary Archaeology in Space and Time

Seminar 2/24: Asteroids and Advances in Accretion Disk Theory

Shadia Habbal
Tue
28
Feb
Michael Boylan-Kolchin UC Irvine Dark Matter and the Milky Way's Satellites

Seminar 2/29: Dynamics of the Local Group, and Lessons for the Local Universe

Len Cowie
Thu
1
Mar
Dan Stark U Arizona Len Cowie
Mon
5
Mar
Mark Krumholz UC Santa Cruz The Origin of the Initial Mass Function Mike Liu
Thu
8
Mar
Konstantin Batygin Caltech Orbits and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets

Seminar 3/9: Retention of a Primordial Cold Classical Kuiper Belt in the NICE Model

Fabio Bresolin
Wed
14
Mar
Lucas Macri Texas A&M Rolf Kudritzki
Mon
19
Mar
Mark Voit Michigan State University Triggering of Feedback in Galaxy Cluster Cores Harald Ebeling
Wed
21
Mar
Dick Bond CITA, Toronto Nick Kaiser
Wed
28
Mar
Evan Kirby Caltech Fabio Bresolin
Wed
9
May
David Sobral Leiden Observatory Tomo Goto