Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 19

Chris Sneden

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Jan 26

Julie Krugler Hollek

University of Texas at Austin

"Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Halo. II. New Extremely Metal-poor Stars"
abstract

Feb 2

Jens Adamczak

University of Texas at Austin

"X-ray Spectroscopy of Hot White Dwarfs"
abstract

Feb 9

Mike Montgomery

University of Texas at Austin

TCC Presentation: "Observational Constraints on Dark Matter Heating in White Dwarf Stars"
abstract

Feb 16

No talk scheduled.

Feb 23

Melike Afsar

University of Texas at Austin

"Galactic Disk Red Horizontal Branch Stars: Preliminary Abundance Analysis"

Mar 2

Harriet Dinerstein

University of Texas at Austin

"Unveiling the True Metallicities and Stellar Populations of Planetary Nebula Progenitor Stars"

Mar 9

Bob Kraft

University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory

"Stellar Populations, Globular Clusters, and High Resolution Spectroscopy"

Mar 16

Spring Break: March 14-18. No talk scheduled.

Mar 23

Michael Breger

University of Texas at Austin

"Asteroseismology of Selected A/F Stars with the Kepler Satellite"

Mar 30

James J. Hermes

University of Texas at Austin

"Don't Blink: White Dwarf Stars in the Kepler Field"

Apr 6

Karen Kinemuchi

Kepler Guest Observer Office/NASA Ames

"The KEPLER Mission: Programs, Opportunities, Data and Tools"
abstract

Apr 13

No talk scheduled.

Apr 20

Bill Cochran

University of Texas at Austin

"Kepler: New Constraints on the Occurrence of Planetary Systems"

Apr 27

Fritz Benedict

University of Texas at Austin

"Calibrating the Population II Distance Scale with Galactic RR Lyrae Star Parallaxes"

May 4

No talk scheduled.