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SEMINAR IN STELLAR ASTRONOMY
Astronomy 383T - Fall 2004
W 12:00-1:00 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 47930


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Professor

Dr. Edward L. Robinson
Office: RLM 17.318
Phone: (512) 471-3401
elr@astro.as.utexas.edu

Professor

Dr. Harriet Dinerstein
Office: RLM 16.324
Phone: (512) 471-3449
harriet@astro.as.
utexas.edu

Date
Speaker
Topic
9/1
Rob Robinson
Organizational Meeting
9/8
David Lambert
Lithium in Very Metal-Poor Dwarf Stars - Problems for Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?
9/15
Mike Montgomery
Seismic Probes of Convection: A New Technique for Probing Convection in Large-Amplitude Pulsating Stars
9/22
No One
See the meeting: Priors, Quaternions, and Residuals, Oh My!
9/29
John Scalo
The Age-Velocity Dispersion Relation for Stars in Our Galaxy: Disk Heating or Disk Cooling?
10/6
Gregory Herczeg
Far-UV Emission from Classical T Tauri Stars and Its Effect on Their Disks
10/13
Carlos Allende Prieto
Galactic Structure with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
10/20
 
Pre-Empted by the department colloquium
10/25
Wolfgang P. Gieren
How well-calibrated are Cepheid variables as distance indicators?
11/3
Ivan Ramirez
The Effective Temperature Scale of F, G, and K Stars
11/10
Seth Redfield
A FUV Doppler Map of the Surface of Altair
11/17
Fritz Benedict
Parallax Park; An Interactive Visitor Experience for the McDonald Observatory Visitors Center
11/24
Peter Hoeflich
Distribution of Isotopes in Thermonuclear Supernovae
12/1
John Booth &
Matthew Shetrone

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