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Fall 2009 Colloquium Series

Thursdays* at 4:00 p.m. in 105 Space Sciences
*unless noted otherwise

Date	Speaker	Topic
August 27	No Colloquium Scheduled
September 3 Colloquium CANCELLED	Jonas Zmuidzinas, CalTech Host: Gordon Stacey	"TBA "
September 10	Kevin Covey (Cornell Univ.) Host: James Lloyd	"Perfect Timing: Empirical Measurements of Key Star Formation Timescales"
September 17	Matthew Tiscareno, Cornell Univ. Host:	"Saturn's Rings: Direct Observations of Disk-Embedded Masses"
September 24	Shami Chatterjee, Cornell Univ. Host:	"How Do Neutron Stars Get Their Kicks? Probing Supernova Core Collapse With Precision Astrometry"
October 1	Andrew Blain, CalTech Host: Gordon Stacey	"Nature and Evolution of The Most Luminous Galaxies
October 8	Thierry Foglizzo, CEA France Host: Dong Lai	"Asymmetric Explosion of Core Collapse Supernovae"
October 13 TUESDAY 4:00 p.m.; SS 105	Marshall Perrin (UCLA) Host: James Lloyd	"Peering into Protoplanetary Disks With Coronagraphy, Polarimetry, and Interferometry"
October 15	Anthony Tyson, UC Davis Host: Rachel Bean	"Petascale Astrophysics: Mining the Sky with LSST"
October 22	Akshay Kulkarni, Cornell Univ. Host: Marina Romanova	"Magnetospheres Slacking Off: Accretion Through Instabilities"
October 29	Mark Swain, JPL Host: Gordon Stacey	"Exoplanet Spectroscopy: A Bright Present, A Brilliant Future"
November 5	Robin Garrod, Cornell University Host:	"A Taste of Space: Understanding the Most Complex Organic Molecules In the Interstellar Medium"
November 12	Alberto Bolatto, Univ. of Maryland Host: Riccardo Giovanelli	"Star Formation in Galaxies: Lessons from the Local Universe"
November 19	Sally Dodson-Robinson, CalTech Host: James Lloyd	"Three Species of Gas Giants"
December 3	Eugene Chiang, UC Berkeley Host:	"Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks"