Spring 2017

Note the special times of faculty job talks in late January / early February. Talks in red are general colloquia, talks in blue are specialist seminars.

DATE	SPEAKER	INSTITUTE	TITLE	HOST
Wed Jan 04 11:45am	Alice Zurlo	U. Chile & U. Diego Portales	Characterization of exoplanetary systems with the direct imaging technique: the first results of SPHERE@VLT	Greta Guidi
Fri Jan 06 11:45am	Hume Feldman	University of Kansas	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Convergence: The Cosmic Velocity Field	Brent Tully
Wed Jan 11 11:45am	Richard Binzel	MIT	Pluto Revealed: Latest Results from NASA's New Horizons Mission	Rob Jedicke
Wed Jan 18 11:45am	Stam Owocki	U. Delaware	Magnetospheres of Magnetic Massive Stars	Rolf Kudritzki
Mon Jan 23 1:30pm	Jennifer van Saders	Carnegie Obs.	Time-domain Timepieces: Inferring Precision Stellar Ages	Dan Huber
Tue Jan 24 11:30am	Jennifer van Saders	Carnegie Obs.	Stellar Rotation in the Era of Kepler	Dan Huber
Thu Jan 26 1:30pm	Benjamin Shappee	Carnegie Obs.	The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae	John Tonry
Fri Jan 27 11:30am	Benjamin Shappee	Carnegie Obs.	The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae	John Tonry
Mon Jan 30 1:30pm	Ondrej Pejcha	Princeton	The Rugged Landscape of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions	Brent Tully
Tue Jan 31 11:30am	Ondrej Pejcha	Princeton	Cool and Luminous Outbursts from Merging Binary Stars	Brent Tully
Thu Feb 02 1:30pm	Ji Wang	Caltech	Where and How to Find Habitable Terrestrial Planets	Christoph Baranec
Fri Feb 03 11:30am	Ji Wang	Caltech	New Frontier of Exoplanetary Science: High Dispersion Coronagraphy	Christoph Baranec
Mon Feb 06 1:30pm	Wen-Fai Fong	U. Arizona	Unfolding the Dynamic and Colorful Lives of Compact Object Mergers	Jelena Maricic
Tue Feb 07 11:30am	Wen-Fai Fong	U. Arizona	Progenitors to Probes: The Local and Galactic Environments of Gamma-ray Bursts	Jelena Maricic
Thu Feb 09 1:30pm	Ruobing Dong	U. Arizona	Observational Planet Formation I: Introducing the New Field	Mike Liu
Fri Feb 10 11:30am	Ruobing Dong	U. Arizona	Observational Planet Formation II: The Coming Era of New Facilities and Large Samples	Mike Liu
Mon Feb 13 1:30pm	Gongjie Li	Harvard	Unveiling the Origin of Planetary Systems by Dynamical and Statistical Approaches	Esther Hu
Tue Feb 14 11:30am	Gongjie Li	Harvard	On the Spin-axis Dynamics of Planets	Esther Hu
Wed Feb 22 11:45am	Ruth Angus	Columbia	Unlocking stellar ages with Gaia: prospects for galactic archaeology and exoplanet populations	Dan Huber
Wed Mar 01 11:45am	Ilse Cleeves	Harvard CfA	From Disks to Planets Through the Astrochemical Lens	Nienke van der Marel
Thu Mar 02 11:30am	Xudong Sun	Stanford	Investigating the Momentum Processes of Solar Eruptions Using Photospheric Magnetic Field Observations	Esther Hu
Fri Mar 03 1:30pm	Xudong Sun	Stanford	The Magnetic Origin of Non-Eruptive Large Solar Flares	Haosheng Lin
Mon Mar 06 10:45am	Yukio Katsukawa	Hinode Sci Ctr, NAOJ	High Resolution Solar Physics: Probing Elemental MHD Processes	Haosheng Lin
Tue Mar 07 1:30pm	Yukio Katsukawa	Hinode Sci Ctr, NAOJ	Space-based spectro-polarimetry from HINODE to CLASP, SUNRISE, and beyond	Haosheng Lin
Wed Mar 08 11:45am	Claire Moutou	CFHT	SPIRou at CFHT: a window for nIR spectropolarimetry science at Maunakea	Eugene Magnier
Thu Mar 09 1:00pm	Hannah Schunker	Max Planck Inst for Solar System Research	Solving the Solar Dynamo Problem	Shadia Habbal
Fri Mar 10 1:30pm	Hannah Schunker	Max Planck Inst for Solar System Research	Constraining the Origin of Surface Activity on the Sun: The case for high resolution observations	Haosheng Lin
Wed Mar 15 11:45am	Hai Fu	U. Iowa	Understanding Galaxy Evolution with Massive Starburst Galaxies	Robert Jedicke
Wed Mar 22 11:45am	Monique Chyba	UH Dept of Math	Fuel-minimal rendezvous missions with a large population of temporarily captured orbiters	Robert Jedicke
Wed Mar 29 11:45am	Kathy Cooksey	UH Hilo	Designing Undergraduate Research Projects: A Case Study	Geoff Mathews
Wed Apr 05 11:45am			CANCELLED	Rob Jedicke
Wed Apr 12 11:45am	Mark Waterson	SKA	The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope Project	Eugene Magnier
Thu Apr 20 11:45am	Wladimir Lyra	Cal State, Northridge	Planet signatures in transition disks	Nienke van der Marel
Wed Apr 26 11:45am	Paul Lucey	UH HIGP	The Ebb and Flow of Water on the Moon	Rob Jedicke
Wed May 03 11:45am	No Colloquium	UH IfA	Falling Walls Lab in Auditorium	Guenther Hasinger
Wed May 17 11:45am	Franz Bauer	Pontificia Universidad Catolica	The ALMA Frontier Fields	Len Cowie

Colloquia: Spring 2017