Date
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Speaker
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Title
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1/16
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Chris Sneden
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Organizational Meeting.
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1/23
|
Chris Sneden
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"Yikes! I've run out of rare earths! The future of Wisconsin-UT lab-stellar efforts."
|
1/30
|
Jennifer Sobeck
ESO - Garching
|
"Simple at First Glance: Chromium, Copper, and Strontium Abundance Data in Metal-Deficient Stars"
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2/06
|
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No talk scheduled.
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2/13
|
Harriet Dinerstein
|
"Can we determine Fe/H abundances in nebulae?"
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2/20
|
Ivan Hubeny
Univ. of Arizona
|
"Transiting Extrasolar Planets: A Key to Understanding their Physics, Chemistry, and even Meteorology"
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2/27
|
Bi Qing For
|
(first 1/2 of this day's seminar) "TBA"
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3/05
|
Rob Robinson
|
"Geometry of Accretion Disks in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries"
|
3/12
|
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Spring Break March 10 - 14.
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3/17
|
Rob Wittenmyer
|
PhD Dissertation Defense: "A Search for Multi-Planet Systems" on Monday, March 17, at Noon. Stellar Seminar attendees are directed to attend this presentation.
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3/26
|
Pranab Ghosh
Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research, India
|
"Formation and Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations of Globular Clusters"
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4/02
|
Ross Falcon
|
"Understanding the Presence of Contaminants in a White Dwarf Atmosphere"
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4/09
|
Anna Frebel
|
"The Origin of the Elements"
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4/16
|
Timur Sahin
|
"Post-AGB Stars"
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4/23
|
Ivan Ramirez
|
Dissertation Defense: "Spectroscopic Properties of Granulation in K-type Dwarf Stars"
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4/30
|
Kurtis Williams
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Two-Part Presentation: (1) "The Discovery of a New Class of Variable White Dwarf" with Mike Montgomery; (2) Report "Super-AGB Stars and the Fine Line between White Dwarf or Supernova"
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5/06
|
Ian Roederer
|
"TBA"
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