Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 20

Davide Lazzati

North Carolina State University

"Relativistic Outflows, their Engines, and their Progenitors: A New View of what Shapes Gamma-Ray Burst Light Curves"
abstract

Jan 27

William Cochran

University of Texas at Austin

"First Scientific Results form the Kepler Mission"

Feb 03

No talk scheduled.

Feb 10

Michael Endl

University of Texas at Austin

"To Be or Not To Be an Exoplanet"

Feb 17

Howie Marion

University of Texas at Austin

"Type Ia Supernovae: New Perspectives on Evolution, Environments, and Explosions"

Feb 24

Phillip MacQueen

University of Texas at Austin

No talk scheduled today. This talk to be rescheduled for a later date: "Upgrades to the High Resolution Spectrograph on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope"

Mar 03

Mike Montgomery

University of Texas at Austin

"New Results on Crystallization and Phase Separation in Globular Cluster and Disk White Dwarfs"

Mar 10

Today's presentation cancelled. Rescheduled for April 14.

Mar 17

Spring Break

University of Texas at Austin

No presentation to avoid conflict with Spring Break: March 15-19.

Mar 24

Matthew Colless

Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory

"The 6dF and WiggleZ galaxy surveys"
abstract

Mar 31

David Lambert

Director, McDonald Observatory

"Light Elements in the Universe"

Apr 07

Ian Roederer

University of Texas at Austin

"Some Recent r-process Results"
abstract

Apr 14

Michel Breger

University of Texas at Austin

"Asteroseismology of Living Stars"
abstract

Apr 21

George Fritz Benedict

University of Texas at Austin

"The Mass of HD 38529c from Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry and High-Precision Radial Velocities"
abstract

Apr 28

Bi-Qing For

University of Texas at Austin

"Modeling the System Parameters of an Eclipsing sdB+dM binary: a New Class of sdB Star"
abstract

May 05

Julie Hollek

University of Texas at Austin

PhD Qualifying Exam/2nd Year Defense: "Hobby-Eberly Telescope Chemical Abundance of Stars in the Halo (CASH) Project: Spectroscopic Analyses of the First ~80 Stars"