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
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Chris Sneden
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Yikes! I've run out of rare earths! The future of Wisconsin-UT lab-stellar efforts
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1/30
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Jennifer Sobeck
ESO - Garching
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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
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Harriet Dinerstein
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Can we determine Fe/H abundances in nebulae?
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2/20
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Ivan Hubeny
Univ. of Arizona
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Transiting Extrasolar Planets: A Key to Understanding their Physics, Chemistry, and even Meteorology
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2/27
|
Bi Qing For
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(first 1/2 of this day's seminar) TBA
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3/05
|
Rob Robinson
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Geometry of Accretion Disks in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries
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3/12
|
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Spring Break March 10 - 14
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3/17
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Rob Wittenmyer
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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
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Pranab Ghosh
Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research, India
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Formation and Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations of Globular Clusters
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4/02
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Ross Falcon
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Understanding the Presence of Contaminants in a White Dwarf Atmosphere
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4/09
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Anna Frebel
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The Origin of the Elements
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4/16
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Timur Sahin
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Post-AGB Stars
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4/23
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Ivan Ramirez
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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
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Laura Stanford
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Abundances on the Main Sequence of Omega Centauri
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