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

"Gamma-ray bursts: past, present and future"

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 John Chambers, DTM      

``Stellar elemental abundances and planet formation''

26-Feb  Alycia Weinberger, DTM

How to Give the Best Talk

05-Mar  Andrew West, Boston University

Big science from little stars: What we can learn from the Volkswagens of the Milky Way

12-Mar  NAI Workshop at DTM (No Astronomy Group Meeting)

Organics in Disks

26-Mar  Rachel Friesen, NRAO

Probing the initial conditions of clustered star formation: Dense gas tracers and deuterium fractionation

1-Apr* Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University (*Note this is a Thursday)      

“Empirical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: A Data-Intensive Approach”

9-Apr John Chambers & Alan Boss, DTM/CIW      

News from the KITP Exoplanet Workshop”

16-Apr Lisa Chien, STScI     

Star formation history in merging galaxies

20-Apr* Michael Gulley-Santiago, UT-Austin (*Note this is a Tuesday)      

TBD

23-Apr Aaron Grocholski, STScI     

TBD

30-Apr Peter Plavchan, IPAC     

TBD

7-May Nancy Grace Roman      

Astronomers Learn to Work in Space: A discussion of why we had to do things differently with a floating telescope in a vacuum

14-May TBS     

21-May TBS

28-May NO TALK

4-Jun Jennifer Scott, Towson University

TBD