Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar Schedule

Academic Year 2007-8
For the remainder of Spring Semester 2008 seminars will usually be held on Wednesdays at 2:30 PM in ESS 450. Please check listing.
Date Speaker
Tues. Jan. 15, 4PM ESS 123 Scott Schnee, Caltech
Placing Star Formation in the Context of its Environment
Thurs. Jan. 17, 4PM ESS 123 James Muzzerole, U of AZ
Probing the Conditions for Planet Formation in Protoplanetary Disks
Tues. Jan. 22, 4PM ESS 123 Stan Metchev, UCLA
Direct Imaging of Debris Disks and Exoplanetary Systems
Wed. Jan. 23, 4PM ESS 123 Aki Roberge, NASA-GSFC
Gas and Dust in Debris Disks : Clues About the Late Stages of Planetary System Formation
Mon. Jan. 28, 4PM ESS 123 Ilaria Pascucci, U of AZ
Disk Dispersal and the Formation of Planets
Wed. Jan. 30, 4PM ESS 123 Jin Koda, Caltech
ISM Evolution and Star Formation in Galactic Dynamics
Mon. Feb. 4, 4PM ESS 123 Greg Herczeg, Caltech
Accretion from solar-mass stars to brown dwarfs
March 5, 2:30 PM, ESS 450 Sebastien Lepine, AMNH
Archhaelogy of the Galactic Halo Using Cool Subdwarfs
April 9, 2:30 PM, ESS 123 Chad Bender, NRL
Direct Spectroscopy of Non-transiting Extrasolar Planets
April 16, 2:30 PM, ESS 123 Franz Martinache, Cornell
Aperture Masking Interferometry with AO: when telescopes collect too many photons...
April 17, 1:00 PM, ESS 123 Dean Townsley, Univ. of Chicago
White Dwarf Stars in Mass-Transferring Binaries and their Outbursts
April 23, 2:30 PM, ESS 123 Tracy Beck, STScI
The inner 200AU Environments of T Tauri Stars Revealed by Gemini+NIFS
POSTPONED Andrew MacFadyen, NYU
TBD