DATE
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SPEAKER/INSTITUTE
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TITLE AND WEB LINKS
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Jan 17
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Derek Wills
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Organizational Meeting.
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Jan 24
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Martin Gaskell
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"Accretion Disks and the Nature and Origin of AGN Continuum Variability"
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Jan 31
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Irina Mocioiu
Pennsylvania State
University
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Special Physics Presentation (in RLM 7.104 at 2:00 pm) "Particle Physics and Astrophysics Lessons from Neutrinos Telescopes" (Exgal Seminar members are to attend this presentation)
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Feb 07
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Amy Forestell
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Journal Club: "The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of the elliptical and lenticular galaxies (2006 MNRAS, 366, 1126)"
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Feb 14
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Kurtis Williams
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"An Update on the Environments of Gravitational Lenses"
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Feb 21
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Seth Redfield
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Special Seminar: "The Age of Exometeorology: Observing the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets" abstract
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Feb 28
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Sarah Robinson
UCO/Lick Observatory
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Special Seminar: "Chemistry of Giant Planet Formation: Future Directions in Theory and Observations"
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Mar 06
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John Kormendy
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"Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies"
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Mar 13
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Spring Break: March 10 - 14
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Mar 20
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Irina Marinova
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Journal Club: "Properties of Bars and Bulges in the Hubble Sequence" by Laurikainen et al. (2007)
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Mar 20
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Josh Adams
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"The Lyman Alpha Halos of High Redshift Radio Galaxies: Resonant Scattering or Outflow?"
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Mar 27
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Guillermo Blanc
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"The Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile (MUSYC): Wide K-band Imaging, Photometric Catalogs, Clustering and Physical Properties of Galaxies at z~2" arXiv:0803.0763 http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0803.0763
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Apr 03
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Tim Weinzirl
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"Gravitational Quenching in Massive Galaxies and Clusters by Clumpy Accretion"
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Apr 03
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Amanda Bauer
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Journal Club: "The properties and evolution of a K-band selected sample of massive galaxies at z=0.4-2 in the Palomar/DEEP2 survey" arXiv:0708.1040 by C. Conselice, K. Bundy, I. Trujillo et al."
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Apr 10
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Phil Hopkins
Harvard-Smithsonian
Ctr. for Astrophysics
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"Quasars and Galaxy Mergers: Fueling, Feedback, and Evolution"
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Apr 17
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John Kormendy
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"Pseudobulges in Dark Galaxies"
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Apr 24
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Jeremy Murphy
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Second-Year Defense: "Searching for the Dark with Small Amounts of Light: Integral Field Spectroscopy of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with VIRUS-P"
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May 01
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Randi Worhatch
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2nd-Year Defense: "Spectral Principal Component Analysis of SDSS AGN"
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May 08
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Amanda Heiderman
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Defense: TBA.
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May 12
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Sarah Salviander
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Defense: TBA.
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May 15
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Amanda Bauer
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Defense: TBA.
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