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SEMINAR IN STELLAR ASTRONOMY
Astronomy 383T - Spring 2007
W 12:00-1:00 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 49050


v838 monocerotis


Schedule
Professors

Edward L Robinson

Office: RLM 17.318
Hours: TBA
Phone: (512) 471-3401
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Date
Speaker
Title
1/24
Organizational Meeting  
 
1/31
Stuart Barnes  
Conceptual Design for the High Resolution Optical Spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope
2/7
None Scheduled  
 
2/14
None Scheduled  
 
2/21
Cancelled  
 
2/28
Fritz Benedict  
The Galactic Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation: Calibration, Tests, and Applications
abstract
3/7
Ian Roederer  
Isotopic Abundances of Europium, Barium, and Samarium in Metal-Poor Stars (2nd year defense)
abstract
3/14
Spring Break  
 
3/21
Lars Koesterke  
Solar Abundances revisited: New Tools for the Spectrum Synthesis in 3-D
3/28
Kurtis Williams  
Summary of the 'Paths to Exploding Stars' Conference, or How Most Everything I Thought I Knew About Type Ia Supernovae is Wrong
abstract
4/4
None Scheduled  
 
4/11
Agnes Kim  
Probing Exotic Physics with Pulsating White Dwarfs (PhD Defense)
4/18
Ivan Ramirez  
Signatures of Granulation in the Spectra of Cool Main-sequence Stars
4/25
Rob Wittenmyer  
Summary of the Stars to Planets Conference (Gainesville, FL, April 11-14)












 



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