Date

Speaker

Title

Aug 26

John Lacy

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Sept 2

No talk scheduled.

Sept 9

Joel Green

University of Texas at Austin

"Examining the Diversity of Star and Planet Forming Systems with Herschel Spectroscopy: the DIGIT and FOOSH Programs"

Sept 16

Mike Endl

University of Texas at Austin

"New Exoplanets from Kepler, CoRoT and McDonald Observatory"

Sept 23

Undergraduate Research Symposium: 23 Undergrads from Texas AM, Rice University, Texas Christian University, UT San Antonio, Texas Lutheran University, and UT Austin give 10-minute talks on their Astronomy Research. click this link for more information.

Sept 30

Michael Gully-Santiago

University of Texas at Austin

"Observations of the Circum(sub)stellar Disk Environment and Discovery of Diskless Young Substellar Objects"

Oct 7

Colette Salyk

University of Texas at Austin

"Unveiling T-Tauri Stars: A Journey into the World of Stellar Photospheres"

Oct 7

John Lacy

University of Texas at Austin

"non-LTE Excitation and Radiative Transfer in Molecular Vibration-Rotation Lines, or How I've been misinterpreting all of my data"

Oct 14

Frank N. Bash Symposium (Oct. 9-11).

Oct 21

Emma Yu

University of Texas at Austin

"Effect of Various Dust Size Distributions on Infrared Colors of AGB Stars"

Oct 21

Russell Landry

University of Texas at Austin

"Modeling the Viscous Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks"

Oct 28

No talk scheduled. Seminar attendees are encouraged to attend, instead, Casey Deen't PhD Defense presentation on Wednesday, 26 October, during the Stellar Seminar time slot.

Nov 4

Marshall Johnson

University of Texas at Austin

"The Wesleyan Transiting Exoplanet Program"

Nov 4

Andrew Riddle

University of Texas at Austin

"Infrared Excesses in White Dwarfs"

Nov 11

Daniel Jaffe

University of Texas at Austin

"Highlights from the Garching Meeting on Young Brown Dwarfs and the CfA-GMT Exoplanet Meeting"

Nov 11

Michael Gully-Santiago

University of Texas at Austin

"ditto"

Nov 18

John Lacy & Wesley Irons

University of Texas at Austin

"Galactic Center Gas Dynamics: New Observations, Interpretation, and Speculation"

Nov 25

No talk scheduled. Day-after-Thanksgiving holiday (University Closed).

Dec 2

J. Richard Bond

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)

Special Astronomy/Physics Colloquium (special location: RLM 5.104) "Cosmic Information: IT from BIT, from BITs in IT"
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