EXOPLANET JOURNAL CLUB 
Travis Barman, Hendricks Center for Planetary Studies, Lowell Observatory
with Seth Redfield and Mike Endl, University of Texas at Austin
(1) "Ground-based detection of sodium in the transmission spectrum of exoplanet
HD20945b" by I.A.G. Snellen, et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0789
(2) "Subaru HDS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Transiting Extrasolar Planet
HD20945b" by Norio Narita, et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/050450v1

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Amanda Bauer, University of Texas at Austin
"Galaxies Growing Up Over the Last Ten Billion Years"


SECOND-YEAR DEFENSE
Tim Weinzirl, University of Texas at Austin
"Bulge n and B/T in High Mass Galaxies: A Challenge for Hierarchical Models
of Galaxy Evolution"

SPECIAL SEMINAR
Uma Gorti, NASA Ames & UC Berkeley (host: John Lacy)
"Line Emission from Gas in Dust Disks Around Young Stars"


ASTRONOMY GRADUATION CEREMONY (UNDERGRADUATE)
Master of Ceremonies: Dan Jaffe, Asst. Chair

COMMENCEMENT

SECOND-YEAR DEFENSE
Guillermo Blanc, University of Texas at Austin
"The VIRUS-P Pilot Survey for Lyman Alpha Emitters at 2 < z < 4: First Results"


ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (visiting May 14-31)
Rene Goosmann, Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
(Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy)
"Exploring the Innermost Accretion Regions of Supermassive Black Holes"

SECOND-YEAR DEFENSE
BiQing For, University of Texas at Austin
"Searching for Alpha-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo"

MEMORIAL DAY
Staff Holiday - University Closed.

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (visiting May 14-31)
Rene Goosmann, Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
(Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar in Astronomy)
"Using Polarization to Probe Unresolved Structures of AGNs and Other Objects"

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Elizabeth Fernandez, University of Texas at Austin
"Title: TBA"

SUMMER SESSION CLASSES BEGIN

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