Date
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Speaker
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Title
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1/16
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John Scalo
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Organizational Meeting
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1/23
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Amanda Bayless &
Mike Endl
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Journal Club: Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Transit Search for Habitable Planets Orbiting M dwarfs, by Philip Nutzman and David Charbonneau (http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2879).
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1/30
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Amanda Bayless &
Judit Ries
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Journal Club presentation (part two): Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Transit Search for Habitable Planets Orbiting M dwarfs, by Philip Nutzman and David Charbonneau (http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2879)
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2/06
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Shadrian Strong
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Journal Club: Widespread Morning Drizzle on Titan, by Mate Adamkovics, Michael H. Wong, Conor Laver, and Imke de Pater. Science 9 November 2007, 318:962-965; published online 10 October 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1146244] (in Reports)
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2/13
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Klaus Pontoppidan
Caltech
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Special Seminar: Straddling the Snow Line: Water Vapor and Carbon-Containing Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks at 1 AU
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2/20
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Christopher Chyba
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Space Science Panel
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3/05
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Michael Muno
Caltech
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Special Seminar: Identifying Black Holes and Neutron Stars in Order to Understand How They Formed (or, Making Dead Stars Talk)
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3/12
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Spring Break: March 10-14
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3/19
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Fritz Benedict
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Journal Club: Double-blind test program for astrometric planet detection with Gaia, Authors: S. Casertano, M.G. Lattanzi, A. Sozzetti, A. Spagna, S. Jancart, R. Morbidelli, R. Pannunzio, D. Pourbaix, D. Queloz. arXiv:0802.0515
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3/26
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Lifan Wang
Texas A&M
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Astronomy at the Antarctic Plateau
abstract
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4/09
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Bill Cochran &
Seth Redfield
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Discussion session on the recent COROT transiting exoplanet detections
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4/16
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Edward Robinson
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Dr. Robinson will lead the discussion on two recent papers: (1) Swain et al. 2008, Nature, 452, 329, The Presence of Methane in the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet, and (2) Gonzalez, G. 2008, MNRAS, in press? (arXiv:0802.0434), Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets - IX. Lithium Abundances
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4/23
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Shadrian Strong
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Doctoral Dissertation Defense: The Seasonal Stratosphere of Saturn: Radiative Climate Modeling of Giant Planets
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4/30
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John Barentine
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2nd-Year Defense: A Comparative Astrochemical Study of NGC 7538 IRS 1 and IRS 9
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5/07
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Final Exams Period: No presentation scheduled.
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5/14
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Travis Barman
w/Seth Redfield
& Mike Endl
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Journal Club: (1) Ground-based detection of sodium in transmission spectrum of exoplanet HD209458b, by I.A.G. Snellen et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0789
(2) Subaru HDS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Transiting Extrasolar Planet HD209458b, by Norio Narita et al.
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