Astronomy 383T - Fall 2016

Seminar in Stellar Astronomy

W 12:00 · RLM 15.316B · Not for credit Fall 2016


Edward L Robinson · RLM 17.318 · (512) 471-3401 · email

Schedule

Aug. 24 Rob Robinson
University of Texas at Austin
Organizational Meeting

Aug. 31 Marcel Agueros
Columbia University
The Columbia University Bridge Program

Sep. 7 Mike Endl
The University of Texas at Austin
A Potentially Habitable Planet around Proxima Centauri, the Nearest Star

Sep. 14 No talk scheduled
 

Sep. 21 Mike Montgomery
The University of Texas at Austin
What the K2 Mission Can Tell Us About Convection in Pulsating White Dwarfs

Sep. 28 Rob Robinson
The University of Texas at Austin
Likelihood Statistics: An Escape from Bayes I

Oct. 5 Rob Robinson
The University of Texas at Austin
Likelihood Statistics: An Escape from Bayes II

Oct. 12 Ben Tofflemire
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Accretion Dynamics in Pre-Main Sequence Binary Stars

Oct. 19 Chris Sneden
The University of Texas at Austin
The Chemical Compositions of Very Low Mass and Sagittarius Stream Globular Clusters

Oct. 26 No talk scheduled
 

Nov. 2 Fritz Benedict
The University of Texas at Austin
Twenty-five years of HST/FGS Astrometry and Dissecting the HD 202206 Exoplanetary System

Nov. 9 Harriet Dinerstein
The University of Texas at Austin
Neutron-Capture Element Abundances in Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebulae

Nov. 16 Cynthia Froning
The University of Texas at Austin
The MUSCLES HST Treasury Survey: Measurements of the Ultraviolet Spectral Characteristics of Low-mass Exoplanetary Systems

Nov. 23 Thanksgiving
No talk scheduled

Nov. 30 Marc Schaeuble
The University of Texas at Austin
The White Dwarf Photosphere Experiment at Sandia National Laboratories: An Update