Date
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Speaker
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Topic
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1/18
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No meeting scheduled
|
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1/25
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Kimberly Ennico
NASA Ames Research Center
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Astrobiology, Astrochemistry and the AstroBiology Explorer (ABE)
abstract
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2/1
|
Open Discussion
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The discovery and implications of a 5.5 Earth mass planet orbiting an M star
Nature papers: Beaulieu, et.al. & Queloz
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2/15
|
John Scalo
|
Strategies for an Astrobiology/Planetary Science
Curriculum at U.T.
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2/21
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see Astronomy Colloquium
|
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3/1
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David Hills
UT Austin, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
|
Discovery of Life on Earth
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3/8
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none scheduled
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|
3/22
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See Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar on Monday, 3/20
|
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3/29
|
Jackie Kessler-Silacci
|
Silicates in Disks around Solar and Sub-Solar Mass Stars
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4/5
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Christina Holstein
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"Do Extragalactic Cosmic Rays Induce Cycles in Fossil Diversity" by M.V. Medvedev and A. Melott
see Reading
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4/12
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Jacob Bean
|
Metallicity, Debris Discs, and Planets: a literature review
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4/19
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Donna Pierce
|
Formation and Destruction of CO in Cometary Comae
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4/26
|
none scheduled
|
|
5/3
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Michael J. Daly
Dept. of Pathology, M.E. Herbert School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
|
Radiation-Driven Growth of Deinococcus radiodurans: Astrobiological Implications
abstract
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5/10
|
Subhanjoy Mohanty
Harvard CfA
|
Catching Them Young: Accretion, Disks,
and Formation in Young Brown Dwarfs
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