Astronomy Seminars
Seminars are typically held Wednesdays at 2:30pm in ESS 450, exceptions are noted below.
Click on highlighted titles for abstracts.Spring 2009
Date Speaker Title Feb. 4 Feb. 11 Feb. 18 Feb. 25 Mar. 4 Mar. 11* Kevin Luhman
Penn State University"The Origin of Brown Dwarfs" Mar. 18* Adam Burrows
Princeton University"Extrasolar Planets: New Insights from New Data" Mar. 25 Apr. 1 Apr. 8 Spring Break Apr. 15* Eric Jensen
Swarthmore College"How quickly do planets form? Studying protoplanetary disk dispersal to constrain planet formation models." Apr. 22* Lisa Prato
Lowell Observatory"The Youngest Planets and Spots' Tricks" Apr. 29 Robert Fisher
UMass @ Dartmouth"The Astrochemical Evolution of Turbulent Giant Molecular Clouds" Apr. 30** Jennifer Donovan
Columbia University"Gas and the Evolution of Early Type Galaxies" May 7** Pieter van Dokkum
Yale University"The Complex History of Massive Galaxies" May 8* *** Bernard Schutz
MPIfGP Golm"Measuring dark energy with LISA" May 18**** Daniela Calzetti
UMass @ Amherst"Lessons Learned from the Infrared, and Future Prospects for Studies of Nearby Galaxies" * Note: these will start at 1pm in ESS450
** Note: this is a Thursday
*** Note: this replaces the normally scheduled Journal Club
**** Note: this is a Monday