Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 21

Sally Dodson-Robinson

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Jan 28

Christopher Johns-Krull

Rice University

(host: Jaffe; IR/Planets Tinsley Visitor) "Magnetic Fields on Young Stars and Their Role in Accretion and Disk Locking"
abstract

Feb 4

Snow Day: University Closed

Feb 11

No scheduled talk. BoV Meeting Science Discussions will be held all day on Feb. 11 in the RLM 15.216B classroom.

Feb 18

BiQing For

University of Texas at Austin

"Gas and Star Formation in the Circinus Galaxy"

Feb 18

Sam Harrold

University of Texas at Austin

"Signatures of Disk Structure from Molecular Lines"

Feb 25

Joanna Brown

Harvard Center for Astrophysics

(host: Salyk) Tinsley Visiting Speaker: "Towards an Understanding of the Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks"
abstract

Mar 4

John Scalo

University of Texas at Austin

"Functional RNA Exoworlds: Polymer Folding Severely Constrict the Habitable Zone"

Mar 11

Scalo Research Group

University of Texas at Austin

Astrobio tutorial.

Mar 18

Spring Break: March 14-18. No talk scheduled.

Mar 25

Manuel Merello

University of Texas at Austin

"High-Mass Star Formation in the Galaxy"

Apr 1

Harriet Dinerstein

University of Texas at Austin

"Mg and Fe Depletions in Planetary Nebulae: Clues about the Dust Composition"

Apr 8

Isabelle Baraffe

University of Exeter

(host: Evans, Tinsley Visitor) "Structure and Evolution of Exoplanets: from Super-Earths to Super-Jupiters"
abstract

Apr 15

Sam Harrold

University of Texas at Austin

(2nd-Year Defense) "HCN Emission from Protoplanetary Disks"

Apr 22

Alan Sluder

University of Texas at Austin

"A Habitable Zone Based on RNA Folding Thermodynamics and Kinetics"

Apr 29

Nalin Vutisalchavakul

University of Texas at Austin

(2nd-Year Defense) "Tracing Star Formation Rate for Star Forming Regions in the Milky Way using 24 Micron Emission"

May 6

Kevin Gullikson

University of Texas at Austin

"Direct Detection of Exoplanet Spectra in the Near-IR"

May 6

Colette Salyk

University of Texas at Austin

Title: TBA