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SEMINAR IN INTERSTELLAR MATTER
Astronomy 393S - Spring 2006
F 2:00-3:00 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 48275


rcw 79


Schedule
Professors

Harriet Dinerstein

Office: RLM 16.324
Hours: M 1:30-2:30, W 10:30-11:30, or by appt
Phone: (512) 471-3449
email

Daniel Jaffe

Office: RLM 17.220
Hours:
Phone: (512) 471-3425
email

Date
Speaker
Title
1/20
 
Organizational Meeting
1/27
Various speakers
Recap of ISM Science at the January 2006 AAS Meeting
2/3
Shay Strong
Saturnian Climatology: A Radiative Seasonal Climate Model

2/10
Dan Jaffe
Conceptual Design of a Near-IR Spectrograph for the GMT
 
Dan Lester
Update on the Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope
2/17
Yancy Shirley
University of Arizona
The Physical, Chemical, and Kinematic Structure of Starless Cores: Developing an Evolutionary Sequence
2/24 
Neal Evans
Coordinator
Highlights of c2d Team Extinction Workshop
3/3 
TBA
 
3/10 
John Lacy &
Marty Bitner
Results from the First TEXES Gemini North Engineering Run
3/17 
NONE SCHEDULED
SPRING BREAK
3/24 
Tom Geballe
Tinsley Visiting Professor
H3+ Toward and in the Galactic Center
3/31 
Casey Deen &
Journal Club Talk on the preprint "Microwave Emission from Spinning Dust in Circumstellar Disks," by Roman R. Rafikov (astro-ph/0602030)
  
Harriet Dinerstein
UV Absorption Lines from Cool Gas in Planetary Nebulae
(invited talk to be given at IAU Symposium 234, "Planetary Nebulae in our Galaxy and Beyond," April 2-7, 2006)

4/7
Mike Dunham
The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores: First Direct Detection of the Very Low Luminosity Object in IRAM 04191+1522
(Second-year defense)
4/14
NONE SCHEDULED
GOOD FRIDAY
(Possible UT Holiday)
4/21 
Vincent Geers
Leiden Observatory
Observations and Models of PAH Emission from Disks around T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be Stars
(host: Jackie Kessler-Silacci)

4/25
Qingfeng Zhu
**Tuesday, 1:00 PM**
Mass Flows in Ultracompact H II Regions
(Ph.D. Defense)

4/28
NONE SCHEDULED
 
5/5 
JoHsin Chen
Chemistry and Dynamics in L43
(Second-year defense)













 



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