Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 20

Ruud Visser

Leiden Observatory,
Netherlands

"Chemical Evolution from Pre-Stellar Cores to Circumstellar Disks"
abstract

Jan 27

No talk scheduled.

Feb 3

No talk scheduled.

Feb 10

Jonas Zmuidzinas

California Institute of Technology

"Surveying the Submillimeter Universe with CCAT (Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope)"
abstract

Feb 17

Angela Speck

University of Missouri, Columbia

"How People Learn - Applications to College Science Teaching and Outreach"

Feb 24

Andrew Blain

California Institute of Technology

"Discovering and Understanding the Most Luminous Galaxies", visiting: Feb 23-25.
abstract

Mar 3

Elise Furlan

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar (ISM Group)

"Disk Evolution and Dissipation at an Age of a few Myr", visiting: March 2-6.
abstract

Mar 10

No talk scheduled, to avoid conflict with: "The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade" conference. Seminar attendees are encouraged to attend this conference, being held at the AT&T Conference Center, on March 8-11, 2010.

Mar 17

Andreas Pawlik

University of Texas at Austin

"Simulating Reionization"
abstract

Mar 24

Pat McCarthy and Matt Johns

Director and Project Manager for the GMT

Special Colloquium (10:30-11:30 a.m.): "Current Progress with GMT"

Mar 24

Jennifer Johnson

Ohio State University, Tinsley Scholar

"When the Stars Align: Microlensed Main-Sequence Stars and a New View of the Galactic Bulge"
abstract

Mar 31

No talk scheduled.

Apr 07

No talk scheduled.

Apr 14

Alyson Brooks

California Institute of Technology, Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar (Exgal Group)

"The Role of Gas in the Evolution of Disk Galaxies"
abstract

Apr 21

Joshua Winn

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beatrice M. Tinsley Visiting Scholar (Planetary Group)

"Exoplanets and their Odd Orbital Orientations"
abstract

Apr 28

No talk scheduled.

May 5

Paul Robertson

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Qualifying Exam (2nd Year Defense): "M Dwarf Planets: Detection and Statistics"