Fall 2015
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Colloquia: Fall 2015


DATE SPEAKER INSTITUTE TITLE HOST
Wed
12
Aug		 John Jefferies IfA Reflections on the Early Days of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Alan Tokunaga
Wed
19
Aug		 Ann-Marie Madigan UC Berkeley A Slow Dynamical Explosion of Minor Planets Jessica Lu
Wed
26
Aug		 Caroline Morley UCSC Seeing Through the Clouds: The Thermal Emission and Reflected Light of Super-Earths with Flat Transmission Spectra Mike Liu
Wed
2
Sep		 IfA Community IfA One-Minute Colloquium Andrew Howard
Wed
9
Sep		 Mark Clampin STScI Status of the James Webb Space Telescope and its Capabilities for Exoplanet Observations Harald Ebeling
Fri
11
Sep		 Reza Mansouri Sharif University of Technology Astronomy in Iran: Past and Future Nader Haghighipour
Wed
7
Oct		 Anna Ferrè-Mateu NAOJ On the NON-coevolution of SMBHs and massive relic galaxies Alan Stockton
Wed
14
Oct		 Ben Mazin UCSB The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy Andrew Howard
Wed
21
Oct		 Lison Malo Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Early science of GRACES: the Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph Richard Wainscoat
Wed
28
Oct		 David Soderblom STScI Stars of an uncertain age: The problem of determining stellar ages Andrew Howard
Wed
4
Nov		 Olivier Guyon Subaru Obs. / Univ. Arizona / NASA-JPL Imaging and Characterizing nearby habitable Exoplanets: Will it happen before you retire ? Andrew Howard
Fri
13
Nov		 Lars Hernquist Harvard University Next-Generation Cosmological Simulations: Galaxy Assembly and Evolution Josh Barnes
Wed
18
Nov		 Anne Kinney W. M. Keck Observatory Culture: The Scientific Community at Our Scientific Best Mike Liu
Wed
25
Nov		 Dimitri Veras University of Warwick The growing field of post-main-sequence exoplanetary science Nader Haghighipour
Wed
9
Dec		 Stuart Bale Univ. of California, Berkeley Plasma Kinetics in the Inner Heliosphere and the NASA Solar Probe Plus Mission Shadia Habbal
Wed
16
Dec		 Eric Agol Univ. of Washington How heavy are heavenly bodies? Nader Haghighipour