Astronomy 383L - Spring 2017

Cosmos Seminar

W 3:30 · RLM 15.316B · Not for credit Spring 2017


The Cosmos seminar is used for scientific seminars, interdisciplinary talks, seminars on innovative teaching techniques, and discussions of research initiatives and strategic priorities. Please contact the Department Chair, Professor Shardha Jogee, to schedule a seminar by sending email to the chair-at-astro account: chair@astro

Schedule

Jan. 18 Shardha Jogee
The University of Texas at Austin
Organizational Meeting

Jan 25 John Kormendy
The University of Texas at Austin
Dissecting the Milky Way: Report on the 2016 IAP Paris Conference on "The Milky Way and Its Environment: Gaining Insights into the Drivers of Galaxy Formation and Evolution" (Part 1: Global structure parameters, Milky Way analogs, stellar populations and abundances I)

Feb 1 Speaker: TBD
Affiliation
Title: TBA

Feb 8 No talk scheduled
 

Feb 15 John Kormendy
The University of Texas at Austin
Dissecting the Milky Way: Report on the 2016 IAP Paris Conference on "The Milky Way and Its Environment: Gaining Insights into the Drivers of Galaxy Formation and Evolution" (Part 2: Stellar populations and abundances II, hot gas, Milky Way evolution)

Feb 22 Briana Indahl
The University of Texas at Austin
Introduction and tutorial for the LRS2 data reduction pipeline

Mar 1 Joel Green
STScI
The Fiery Seeds of Planet Formation

abstract


Mar 8 No talk scheduled

Mar 15 Spring Break
 

Mar 22
3:00 p.m.
Sera Markoff
University of Amsterdam
How 2 Apply 4 Stuff (note earlier start time)

Mar 29 No talk scheduled


Apr 5 No talk scheduled as to not conflict with ALMA Proposal/Data Workshop

Apr 12 No talk scheduled


Apr 19 No talk scheduled


Apr 26 No talk scheduled


May 3 No talk scheduled


May 10 Lisa Prato
Lowell Observatory
The Secret Lives of Young Binaries: Properties of Individual Stars and Disks in Pre-Main Sequence Multiples