Date

Speaker

Title

Aug 29

Organizational Meeting postponed to next week (Sep 05).

Sep 05

John Lacy

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational Meeting and Short Reports.

Sep 12

Mike Dunham

University of Texas at Austin

"Studying the Protostellar Mass Accretion History of Embedded, Low-Mass Protostars"

Sep 19

Neal Evans

University of Texas at Austin

"Observed Properties of Massive Molecular Cores"

Sep 26

Harshal Gupta

Harvard University

"Discovery of Negative Molecular Ions in the Interstellar Gas"

Oct 03

Manuel Merello

University of Texas at Austin

"Physical Properties of Massive Star Forming Region G331.55-0.1"

Oct 10

ISM Seminar attendees are directed to see all talks by Christopher McKee.

Oct 17

Casey Deen

University of Texas at Austin

"Bolometric Corrections: A Cautionary Tale"

Oct 24

Harriet Dinerstein

University of Texas at Austin

Report on the conference on: "Cosmic Dust: Near and Far," Sep. 8-12, Heidelberg, Germany

Oct 31

Michael Gully-Santiago

University of Texas at Austin

Journal Club: "Very Low-Mass Objects in the Coronet Cluster: The Realm of the Transition Disks" by Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar et al. (ApJ: in press.) http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0807.2504

Nov 07

Hyo Jeong Kim

University of Texas at Austin

"5th Spitzer Conference: Spitzer's view of Circumstellar Disks"

Nov 07

Sarah Kendrew

Leiden University

"Mid-infrared Astronomy with the European Extremely Large Telescope"

Nov 14

Jo-hsin Chen

University of Texas at Austin

"Studying the Chemical Properties of Very Low Luminosity Objects"

Nov 14

Sehyun Hwang

University of Texas at Austin

"Progress Report: 2D Spectra of Optical Recombination Lines in Planetary Nebula NGC 7009"

Nov 21

Geoff Blake

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

"Chemistry in the Planet-Forming Region of Disks"

Nov 28

Day after Thanksgiving Holiday (University Closed).

Dec 05

John Lacy

University of Texas at Austin

"Molecular Spectroscopy and non-LTE Radiative Transfer"