Astronomy Seminars

Seminars are typically held Wednesdays at 2:30pm in ESS 450, exceptions are noted below.
Click on highlighted titles for abstracts.

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Title
Oct. 1 holiday
Oct. 8 James Lloyd
Cornell		 Searching for Terrestrial Planets with IR Radial Velocity Techniques
Oct. 15
Oct. 22 Carles Badenes
Princeton		 Type Ia Supernova Remnants: The Persistence of Memory and The End of Amnesia
Oct. 29 Alan Boss
CIW		 Supernovae, Short-lived and Stable Isotopes, and the Solar Nebula
Nov. 5 cancelled (coincides with dept-wide special seminar)
Nov. 12 Gary Sanders
TMT		 TBD
Nov. 20* Erin Sheldon
BNL		 Tests of Cold Dark Matter from Gravitational Lensing in the SDSS
Nov. 26
Dec. 3 David Lafreniere
Toronto		 Great catches in hunt for exoplanets: the first direct images!

* Note: this is a Thursday