Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Suggested Reading |
Jan 25th |
Everyone |
Who we are and what we do |
Bring a transparency of your favorite extragalactic object. |
| Feb 1st |
Jason Wright PDF |
STAR LUNCH |
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| Feb 8th |
Joe Adams PDF |
STAR LUNCH |
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| Feb 15th |
Gordon Stacey |
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| Feb 22nd |
Sabrina Stierwalt |
Tidal Tails, Intergalactic Rings, and Near-field Cosmology in the Leo Group |
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| Feb 29th |
Thomas Nikola |
Starburst Galaxies in Cluster-feeding Filaments Unveiled by Spitzer |
Fadda et al. 2008 |
| Mar 7th |
Nobody, because it's . . . . |
Orientation Weekend |
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| Mar 14th |
Rachel Bean |
What Can We Learn About Dark Matter From the Cosmos? |
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| Mar 21st |
Nobody, because it's . . . |
Spring break! |
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| Mar 28th |
Phil Muirhead |
STAR LUNCH |
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| Apr 4th |
Greg Sloan PDF |
What Do Interstellar Organics Really Look Like? |
Sloan et al. 2007 |
| Apr 11th |
Jeronimo Bernard-Salas |
An Infrared View of 30Doradus |
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| Apr 18th |
Carl Ferkinhoff |
A Visit to the Galaxy Zoo: Galaxy Spins, Biases, and Isotropy, Oh My! |
Land et al 2008 |
| Apr 25th |
Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) |
The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe: Why SETI Will Fail |
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| May 2nd |
Riccardo Giovanelli |
Optically Dark Mini-halos or Garden-Variety High Velocity Clouds? |
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