Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 17

Neal Evans

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

Jan 24

Mike Endl

University of Texas at Austin

"Kepler Summary and Future Prospects for Exoplanets"

Jan 31

Seokho Lee

Kyung-Hee University

"The Warm CO Gas along the UV Heated Cavity Walls in Protostars"

Jan 31

Hyerin Je

Kyung-Hee University

"DIGIT Herschel Observations of GSS30-IRS1"

Feb 7

Andrew Mann

University of Texas at Austin

"The Secret lives of Kepler's Coolest Planet Hosts"

Feb 14

Klaus Pontoppidan

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

"The Future of Infrared Spectroscopy in Star and Planet Formation"

Feb 21

Joel Green, Rebecca Larson, and Yao-Lun Yang

University of Texas at Austin

"The Multiple Talents of the Herschel Space Observatory: Properties of Protostars"

Feb 28

Nalin Vutisalchavakul

University of Texas at Austin

"Star Formation Relations in the Galactic Plane"

Mar 7

Young-Chol Minh

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)

"The Circumnuclear Disk of our Galactic Center"

Mar 14

Spring Break: March 10-14. No talk scheduled.

Mar 21

Marshall Johnson

University of Texas at Austin

"Transiting Planets around Rapidly-Rotating Stars via Doppler Tomography"

Mar 28

Kim Arvidsson

Schreiner University

"The Milky Way Project and its Small Bubbles"

abstract

Apr 4

Daniel Jaffe, Mike Pavel, Kyle Kaplan

University of Texas at Austin

"Results from the IGRINS Commissioning Run"

Apr 11

Mike Dunham

Yale University

"The Evolution of Protostars: Assembling Stars from Dense Cores"

Stars form from the gravitational collapse of dense molecular cloud cores. In the protostellar phase, mass accretes from the core onto a protostar, likely through an accretion disk, and it is during this phase that the initial masses of stars and the initial conditions for planet formation are set. Over the past decade, new observational capabilities provided by the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory have enabled wide-field surveys of entire star-forming clouds with unprecedented sensitivity, resolution, and infrared wavelength coverage. In this talk I will review resulting advances in the field of protostellar evolution, focusing on observational constraints on the problem of how protostars gain their mass, including the duration, time history, and onset of the protostellar accretion process.

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Apr 18

Andrew Riddle

University of Texas at Austin

"IR Spectroscopy of Low-Mass Eclipsing Binaries with IGRINS"

Apr 25

Gaspar Bakos

Princeton University

(Tinsley Scholar/Planetary Group) (host: M. Endl) "Extrasolar Planets with Small Telescopes"

abstract

May 2

Anita Cochran & Adam McKay

University of Texas at Austin

(joint presentation) "The Joys and Tribulations of Observing Comets near the Sun"