Astronomy Colloquium Series 2011/12

Colloquia are held at 3:30pm every Thursday during the normal academic quarter.

All talks are in 2015 McPherson Laboratory unless otherwise indicated.

Coffee & Refreshments are at 3:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab, except as noted.

Autumn Quarter 2011

Date	Speaker	Host
September 22	Renu Malhotra (University of Arizona) The Early History of the Solar System	Jennifer Johnson
September 29	Brad Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles) Piecing together the influence of tides in exoplanet systems	Scott Gaudi
October 6	Alice Quillen (University of Rochester) Eclipses from Circumplanetary and Circumsecondary Disks and the Stability of Multiple Planet Systems	Andy Gould
October 13	Karen Kinemuchi (NASA) Astrophysics with Kepler	Marc Pinsonneault
October 20	Roderik Overzier (University of Texas at Austin) New Perspectives on Galaxy Evolution	Paul Martini
October 27	Steve Allen (Stanford University) Galaxy Clusters and the Dark Universe	Smita Mathur
November 3	Tim Eifler, Klaus Honscheid, Paul Martini, Peter Melchior, Michael Mortonson (Ohio State) The Dark Energy Survey	Paul Martini
November 10	Canceled
November 17	Smita Mathur (Ohio State) Alternative Tracks of Black Hole-Galaxy Co-Evolution	Paul Martini
December 1	Karrie Gilbert (University of Washington) TBD	Brad Peterson

Winter Quarter 2012

TBA

Spring Quarter 2012

TBA