Astronomy Seminars

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

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Title
Sep. 2 Hector Arce
Yale		 "Outflows from young stars and their effect on the star formation process"
Sep. 9 Eric Mamajek
Rochester		 "What can nearby young stars tell us about star and planet formation"?
Sep. 16 Yu Gao
Purple Mountain Obs		 "Dense Molecular Gas and Modes of Massive Star (Cluster) Formation in Galaxies"
Sep. 23
 
Sep. 30 Thomas Eisenbeiss
Jena		 "Research activities at the Astrophysical Institut and Universitz Observatory Jena"
Oct. 7
 
Oct. 14 Michael McElwain
Princeton		 "Exoplanetary Science: Instrumentation, Observations, and Expectations"
Oct. 21 John Bochanski
MIT/Kavli Inst		 "Our 15 Million Nearest Neighbors: M Dwarfs and the Local Milky Way"
Oct. 26* Thomas Greve
MPIA Heidelberg		 "The ISM, ALMA, EVLA & Herschel"
Oct. 29** Brian Jackson
Goddard SFC		 "Close-in Extra-Solar Planets and Tides"
Nov. 4
 
Nov. 11
 
Nov. 18 Adwin Boogert
Herschel Sci Ctr		 "Interstellar Ices"
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2 Dimitri Veras
Florida		 "Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU"
Dec. 7* Amos Yahil
Stony Brook		 TBD
  * NOTE: Unusual day (Monday) and time (4pm)!
** NOTE: Joint Seminar with Geosciences. ESS 123, 4pm Thursday!

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