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Spring 2009 Colloquium Series

Thursdays* at 4:30 p.m. in 105 Space Sciences
*unless noted otherwise

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 22	Greg Sloan, Cornell Univ.	"Clues About Dust In The Primitive Universe"
January 29	Bruce Draine, Princeton Univ. Observatory Host: Ira Wasserman	" Interstellar Dust Entering the Heliosphere Today"
February 5	Dan Weedman, Cornell University Host: Jim Houck	"Evolution of the Most Luminous Galaxies in the Universe"
Februay 12	Erik Asphaug, UCSC The Josephine Lawrence Hopkins Foundation Colloquium Host: Jim Bell	"Planetary Collisions"
February 19	William Herbst, Wesleyan Univ. Host: Marina Romanova	"An Update On KH 15D and Its Precessing, Protoplanetary Disk"
February 26	Andrei Belodorodov, Columbia Univ. Host: Dong Lai	"Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars"
March 5	Christine Wilson, McMaster Univ. Host: Riccardo Giovanelli	"Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array: Probing the Extremes of Star Formation"
March 12	Karin Sandstrom, Berkeley Host: J. Lloyd/J. Wright	"The Life-Cycle of Dust in Primordial Galaxies: Insights from the Small Magellanic Cloud"
March 26	David Stevenson, Caltech Host: Ira Wasserman	"The Beginning of Earth and Moon"
April 2	James Graham, UC Berkeley Host: Phil Nicholson	"Direct Detection of Exoplanets"
April 9	Stan Metchev, SUNY Stony Brook Host: Jamie Lloyd	"The Substellar Mass Function and Implications for Imaging Exoplanets"
April 16	Suzan Edwards, Smith College Host: Richard Lovelace	"Protoplanetary Disks: The Accretion/Outflow Connection"
April 23	Gilles Chabrier, ENS Lyon Salpeter Lecturer Host: Dong Lai	"Star, Brown Dwarf Formation and Early Stages of Evolution. Theory of the Initial Mass Function"
April 27 -- MONDAY Physics/Astronomy Colloquium 4:00 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium	Gilles Chabrier, ENS Lyon Salpeter Lecturer Host: Dong Lai	"Recent Results in Exoplanet Formation, Structure and Evolution"
April 30	Matt Bradford, JPL Host: Gordon Stacey	"The History of the Dust-Enshrouded Universe: Sensitive Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Far-IR and Submillimeter."