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Jan 20
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Jan 27 |
John Kormendy
University of Texas at Austin |
"Scaling Laws for Dark Matter Halos in Late-Type and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"
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Feb 3 |
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Feb 10 |
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Feb 17 |
John Lacy, Steve and Keely Finkelstein, and Harriet Dinerstein (4 speakers)
University of Texas at Austin |
"Sharing Teaching Techniques and Tools"
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Feb 24 |
Martha Boyer
NASA Goddard (host: Kristen McQuinn) |
"The Key Influence of AGB Stars on the Evolution and Global Properties of Galaxies"
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Mar 2 |
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Mar 9 |
Amanda Kepley
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) |
"Opening New Frontiers in the Study of Star Formation"
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Mar 16 |
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Spring Break: No talk scheduled.
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Mar 23 |
Joel Green
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) (host: Yao-Lun Yang) |
"Extreme Accretion: The Evolution of the FU Orionis Disk"
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Mar 30 |
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Apr 6 |
Eric Becklin
University of California, Los Angeles (hosts: John Lacy, Dan Jaffe) |
"Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Overview, the First Science Results, and Future Opportunities"
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Apr 13 |
Brendan Bowler
University of Texas at Austin (Hubble Fellow) |
"The Architecture, Atmospheres, and Origin of Giant Planets with High-Contrast Imaging"
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Apr 20 |
Anshu Gupta
Australian National University (host: Chao-Ling Hung) |
"Radial Distribution of Gas-Phase Metallicities of Galaxies in two CLASH Clusters at z ~ 0.35"
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Apr 27 |
Postdoc Mentoring Commitee
University of Texas at Austin |
"Applying for Your Next Job"
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May 4 |
Linda Strubbe
University of British Columbia (host: Jeff Silverman) |
"Developing scientific reasoning: at UBC and in West Africa"
Helping undergraduate students improve their scientific reasoning is a key goal—and key challenge—of many university science programs. I'll describe three quite different projects to address student reasoning both at UBC and in West Africa: (1) In our first-year physics lab course at UBC, we have introduced course components specifically targeting students' beliefs about the nature of science and their identity as scientists, and are investigating how these may have changed students’ beliefs during the course; (2) Active teaching strategies have been shown to improve student learning, but many faculty have little experience using these strategies. We are piloting and studying a program of "paired teaching" at UBC, in which two instructors teach a course together to improve their practice of active strategies; and (3) The West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers is a week-long introduction to astronomy for science undergraduates from West Africa, held twice so far in Nigeria. The school aims to improve student reasoning through a two-day inquiry-based lab, and to develop West African instructors’ teaching strategies through a compressed paired-teaching model. close
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