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Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in RLM 15.216B

Date
Speaker
Topic
9/13
Organizational Meeting
 
10/4
Shadrian Strong
Implications of Cassini/Huygens Studies of Titan
10/11
Fergal Mullally
The First Planet around a White Dwarf

10/18
JOINT MEETING WITH EXOPLANET JOURNAL CLUB
 
Robert A. Wittenmyer
"Exotic Earths: Forming Habitable Worlds with Giant Planet Migration," S. Raymond, A. Mandell & S. Sigurdsson 2006 Science, 313, 1413
abstract / astro-ph/0609253
11/1
Robert A. Wittenmyer
The Destruction of 47 UMa c and Other Results from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search Programs
11/8
Pan Liubin
Mixing: A Strict Limit on Infall in the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
abstract
11/15
Candice Gray
A Discussion of the Paper: Terrestrial Planet Formation Surrounding Close Binary Stars
(by E.V. Quintana & J.J. Lissauer, Icarus, 185, 1-20. -- pdf)

11/22
None scheduled
 
11/29
Jacob Bean
A Review of Future Exoplanet Science Facilities
See also the 12/1 Interstellar Matter Seminar

12/6
See the 12/8 - INTERSTELLAR MATTER SEMINAR














 





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