DTM’s Astronomy Group Meeting Schedule
Fridays at 11 am in the Astronomy Library
If you want to be added to the email list or suggest a speaker for Spring 2010,
please contact Evgenya Shkolnik
Fall 2009
25-Sep Jorge Moreno, Haverford College
Do halo mergers trigger quasars?
02-Oct Thayne Currie, Harvard/CfA
The Time History of Protoplanetary Disk Evolution as Reconstructed from Spitzer
09-Oct Meredith Hughes, Harvard
Resolving Inner Holes in Disks around Young Stars
16-Oct Susan Bennechi, STScI
Solar System Archaeology
26-Oct Beth Biller, UH/IfA
The NICI Planet-Finding Campaign at Gemini South
30-Oct Marc Kuschner, GSFC
Marketing for Astrophysicists
06-Nov DTM Workshop on presolar grains in meteorites
13-Nov Catherine Neish, JHU-APL
Titan's Primordial Soup
19-Nov John Bochanski, MIT (Note special date)
Our 15 Million Nearest Neighbors: M dwarfs and the Local Milky Way
20-Nov John Debes, GSFC
Planetary Systems Blowing in the Wind: The ISM Sculpting of the HD 32297 Debris Disk
27-Nov THANKSGIVING
04-Dec Brian Jackson, GSFC
Close-in Extra-Solar Planets and Tides
11-Dec Nick Moskovitz, DTM
Cores, crusts, and collisions: A story of early planetesimal evolution
Spring 2010
08-Jan Rachel Smith, UCLA
Observations of CO isotope ratios toward protostars and implications for early solar system chemistry
15-Jan Asaf Pe’er, STScI
TBD
22-Jan Stella Kafka, DTM
Activity on Magnetic CV Secondaries: Nature or Nurture?
29-Jan Vera Rubin, DTM
Charlotte Moore Sitterly
05-Feb Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Perimeter Institute
Understanding the Cosmic Acceleration and Cosmological Constant Problems
12-Feb Jeff Coughlin, NMSU
Hot Planets and Cool Stars: Measuring Fundamental Parameters via Eclipses
19-Feb Aaron Grocholski, STScI
TBD
26-Feb Alycia Weinberger, DTM
How to Give the Best Talk
05-Mar Andrew West, Boston University
TBD
12-Mar NAI Workshop at DTM (No Astronomy Group Meeting)
Organics in Disks
19-Mar Larry Nittler, DTM
TBD
26-Mar TBS
1-Apr* Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University (*Note this is a Thursday)
TBD