Colloquia Schedule Spring 2017
Colloquia are on Tuesdays (unless otherwise indicated) at 3:30 pm in RLM 15.216B
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One Minute Colloquium Astronomy Department and McDonald Observatory Personnel The University of Texas at Austin Organizer: Brendan Bowler |
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The OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission On September 8, an Atlas 5 rocket left the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft towards a rendezvous with asteroid Bennu in the Fall of 2018. When it returns to the Earth in 2023, it will carry with it the largest sample of extraterrestrial material returned to the Earth since the end of the manned missions to the moon over 40 years ago.
The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory host: Anita Cochran |
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Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics host: Adam Kraus |
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Theory Frontiers Meeting POB 2.402 |
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Faculty Candidate Talks moved to Theory Seminar and ExGal Seminar Slots |
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Faculty Candidate Talks moved to Theory Seminar and ExGal Seminar Slots |
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Faculty Candidate Talks moved to Theory Seminar and ExGal Seminar Slots |
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Faculty Candidate Talks moved to Theory Seminar and ExGal Seminar Slots |
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Spring Break |
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External Review |
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PostDoc Colloquium (3 talks) Effect of supersonic gas streams on the primordial star formation Shingo Hirano, The University of Texas at Austin IGRINS (the traveling spectrometer) and what it can tell us about YSOs Kim Sokal, The University of Texas at Austin A Faint Flux-Limited LAE Sample at z = 0.3 Isak Wold, The University of Texas at Austin host: Mike Boylan-Kolchin |
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Debris Disks: Tracers of Planet Formation The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Harriet Dinerstein/Adam Kraus |
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Small Planets Transiting Nearby Small Stars University of Colorado, Boulder host: Cynthia Froning |
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The Grand Planetary Ensemble MIT Kavli Institute host: Michael Endl |
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The Growth of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Highest Density Regions: Evidence for In-Situ Star Formation in SpARCS Brightest Cluster Galaxies McGill University host: Caitlin Casey |
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Planet Formation: the Direct Approach Lowell Observatory host: Fritz Benedict |
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