Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 20

Sally Dodson-Robinson

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Jan 27

No talk scheduled.

Feb 3

No talk scheduled.

Feb 10
2:00 PM

Julie Comerford

University of Texas at Austin

BoV Science Discussion Group: "Slowing Time in Special Relativity"

Feb 10
3:15 PM

Steve Finkelstein

University of Texas at Austin

BoV Science Discussion Group: "First Galaxies and GMT"

Feb 10
3:15 PM

Jeremy Murphy

University of Texas at Austin

BoV Science Discussion Group (special location: RLM 15.202A): "Galaxies and Dark Matter"

Feb 17

Katelyn Allers

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

"Determining the Ages of Brown Dwarfs: New Methods and Applications"

Feb 24

No talk scheduled.

Mar 2

No talk scheduled.

Mar 9

Paul Robertson

University of Texas at Austin

"Resonant Giant Planets from the McDonald Observatory Planet Survey"

Mar 16

Spring Break: March 12-16. No talk scheduled.

Mar 23

Marshall Johnson

University of Texas at Austin

"The Interstellar Medium in the Kepler Search Volume"

Mar 23

Alexander Hubbard

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

"Turbulent Ordering and Collisions of Dust Grains: Results with Large Inertial Ranges" (host: Joel Green)
abstract

Mar 30

John Barentine

University of Texas at Austin

"Long-Term Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Monitoring of Epsilon Aurigae during the 2009-11 Eclipse"

Apr 6

No talk scheduled. ISM Seminar attendees are urged to attend Daniel Apai's Cosmos Seminar presentation on Wednesday, 4 April at 3:00 PM.

Apr 13

Britney Schmidt

UT Austin: Jackson School of Geosciences

"Europa's Great Lakes"
abstract

Apr 20

Augusto Carballido

University of Texas at Austin

(talk cancelled due to unforseen circumstances)
"Exploring the Interplay Between Thermal Structure and Turbulent Activity in Protoplanetary Disks"

Apr 27

Erik Brugamyer

University of Texas at Austin

"Herschel Observations of a Debris Disk around HD 202206"

Apr 27

Nalin Vutisalchavakul

University of Texas at Austin

"Tracing Galactic Star Formation with Infrared and Radio Emission"

May 4

Kevin Gullikson

University of Texas at Austin

Qualifying Exam/2nd Year Defense: "Spectroscopic Detection of B-star Binaries and Hot Jupiters"