| DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTE |
TITLE |
HOST |
Wed
9
Jan |
Richard Mushotzky |
University of Maryland |
Early Results from the Herschel Survey of Hard X-ray Selected AGN
|
Mike Koss |
Tue
15
Jan |
Christophe Baranec |
Caltech |
Science and new opportunities with the Robo-AO automated laser adaptive optics system
|
John Tonry |
Wed
16
Jan |
Jason Prochaska |
UC Santa Cruz |
Quasars Probing Quasars
|
Regina Jorgenson |
Tue
22
Jan |
Nicholas Konidaris |
Caltech |
Initial Results from MOSFIRE
|
Mike Liu |
Thu
31
Jan |
Nicholas Law |
University of Toronto |
Building and Using a New Generation of Sky Surveys
|
Alan Tokunaga |
Tue
5
Feb |
Ori Fox |
UC Berkeley |
A View of Supernovae (and Other Transients) Through Infrared Eyes
|
Alan Tokunaga |
Thu
7
Feb |
Cynthia Froning |
University of Colorado |
Revealing Cosmic Origins: from Exoplanet Atmospheres to the Intergalactic Medium with the HST/COS
|
Karen Meech |
Wed
13
Feb |
Amy Mainzer |
JPL |
Update on NEOWISE: Getting to Know Earth's Nearest Neighbors
|
Alan Tokunaga |
Thu
14
Feb |
Evan Kirby |
UC Irvine |
The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
2/15: The Origin of the Elements |
Fabio Bresolin |
Tue
19
Feb |
Kaitlin Kratter |
University of Colorado |
The Formation and Evolution of Multiple Stellar Systems
2/20: Planets in Binary Systems |
Jonathan Williams |
Mon
25
Feb |
Matthew Walker |
CfA |
Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter
2/26: Astroparticlephysics with Dwarf Galaxies |
Fabio Bresolin |
Thu
28
Feb |
Jessica Lu |
IfA |
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
3/1: Precision measurements with adaptive optics |
Andrew Howard |
Mon
4
Mar |
Joshua Carter |
CfA |
Photodynamics: revealing the secrets of the lowest-mass planets and stars
3/5: The Quasiperiodic Automated Transit Search Algorithm |
Mike Liu |
Thu
28
Mar |
Andrew Youdin |
University of Colorado |
The Origin of Planetesimals
|
Fabio Bresolin |
Wed
3
Apr |
Roberto Mendez |
IfA |
Understanding the Eskimo
|
Rolf Kudritzki |
Wed
10
Apr |
Markus Kissler-Patig |
Gemini Observatory |
New Opportunities with the Gemini Observatory
|
Rolf Kudritzki |
Wed
17
Apr |
Kris Stanek |
Ohio State University |
Drinking Coffee, Writing Papers
|
Fabio Bresolin |
Wed
24
Apr |
Sho Okano |
Tohoku University |
Collaborative IfA-Tohoku Planetary Observations at Haleakala with 40cm, 60cm, and PLANETS telescopes
|
Jeff Kuhn |
Thu
2
May |
Jill Tarter |
SETI Institute |
Observational SETI Today and Tomorrow: New Strategies and Instrumentation for SETI and Radio Astronomy
|
Karen Meech |
Wed
8
May |
Ryan Cooke |
UC Santa Cruz |
The Most Metal-poor Damped Lyman-alpha Systems and Early Nucleosynthesis
|
Regina Jorgenson |
Thu
16
May |
Neil Gehrels |
GSFC |
Gamma Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes
|
Mike Koss |
Mon
20
May |
Sylvain Veilleux |
University of Maryland |
Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications
|
Mike Koss |
Thu
30
May |
Charles Conroy |
UC Santa Cruz |
Early-Type Galaxy Archeology
|
Regina Jorgenson |
Wed
5
Jun |
Jeff Kuhn |
IfA |
The Colossus Project: Toward the Next Next Generation Large Optical/IR Telescopes
|
Fabio Bresolin |
