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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2nd-Year Defense: Properties of Interacting Galaxies and Influence of Environment in the A901/02 Supercluster
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May 12
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Sarah Salviander
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PhD Defense: Demographics and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars and Galaxies
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May 15
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Amanda Bauer
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PhD Defense: Galaxies Growing Up Over the Last Ten Billion Years
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