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	            SPRING 2005  GALAXIES SEMINAR  (46875)
               Th 3.30, RLM 15.216B, except where otherwise indicated
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Jan 27     	 Sheila Kannappan 
	   	 Building Disk Galaxies: Infall and Interactions
		
Feb 3      	 Eva Noyola
                 Discussion of "Orbital Structure of Collisionless Merger
		 Remnants: On the Origin of Photometric and Kinematic 
                 Properties of Elliptical and S0 Galaxies"   by R. Jesseit,
                 T. Naab, and A. Burkert.

Feb 10     	 Robert Quimby
		 Journal Club: Reddening, Absorption, and Decline Rate Corrections
                 for a Complete Sample of Type Ia Supernovae Leading to a Fully 
                 Corrected Hubble Diagram to v < 30,000 km s-1" by B. Reindl et al. 
                 astro-ph/0501664.

Feb 17     	 Amy Forestell
	         Journal Club: "Dark-matter haloes in elliptical galaxies: lost 
	         and found" by Dekel et al., astro-ph/0501622

Feb 24    	 Ralf Bender
           	 "Formation of massive galaxies: constraints from local stellar 
		 populations and from high redshift evolution" 


Mar 3     	 Sarah  Salviander
		 Journal Club: "A Physical Model for the Origin of Quasar Lifetimes"
		 by R. Hopkins et al. astro-ph/0502241

Mar 10     	 No talk scheduled

Mar 17	   	 Spring Break 


Mar 31     	 Neal Evans (Cross-list with ISM and Stellar Seminar)
                 "Star Formation in a galactic Context."          
                                                                                          
Fr Apr 1,2 pm *  EXTRA SESSION USING ISM SEMINAR SLOT
		 Amanda Bauer: Talk on Ph.D research and committee meeting 			
       	         "A Different Look at Low-z SDSS galaxy Spectroscopy and the specific
                  SFR to z = 1.5."

Apr 7		 David Fisher 
	         "Evidence for Dissipative Merger Formation of Disky Elliptical Galaxies
		  from Surface Brightness Profiles"
                                                                                                                      
Apr 14	         No Talk. TexMex Conference in San Antonio

Apr 21     	 Marsha Wolf 
		 Estimating the Ages of Galaxies to Understand their Stellar Mass Assembly 
		 Histories: A Calibration on Globular Clusters.

Apr 28 		 Julia Silge, Ph.D defense.               
		 "Sweep the Dust Away: Infrared Kinematics of Nearby Galaxies" 

May 5      	 Postponed due to observing run at Mc Donald.

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Joe Tufts' Ph.D Defense : moved from Apr 21.