Astronomy Colloquium Series 2008/09

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 2008

Date	Speaker	Host
October 2	Roberta Humphreys (The University of Minnesota) Ejections, Eruptions, and Explosions in the Upper HR Diagram	Kris Stanek
October 9	Heather Knutson (Harvard University) Portraits of Distant Worlds: Characterizing the Properties of Extrasolar Planets	Scott Gaudi
October 16	Jonathan Fortney (The University of California, Santa Cruz) TBD
October 23	Stelios Kazantzidis (The Ohio State University; CCAPP) TBD	David Weinberg
October 30	Kurtis Williams (The University of Texas, Austin) TBD	Jennifer Johnson
November 6	Mark Krumholz (The University of California, Santa Cruz) TBD	Todd Thompson
November 13	Gabriela Canalizo (The University of California, Riverside) TBD	Smita Mathur
November 20	Lars Bildsten (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors: Challenges and Opportunities	Todd Thompson
December 4	Philip F. Hopkins (The University of California, Berkeley) TBD	Paul Martini

Winter Quarter 2009

Date	Speaker	Host
January 8	() TBD
January 15	() TBD
January 22	() TBD
January 29	() TBD
February 5	() TBD
February 12	() TBD
February 19	() TBD
February 26	Tommaso Treu (The University of California, Santa Barbara) TBD
March 5	Mike Brown (Caltech) TBD
March 12	() TBD

Spring Quarter 2009

Date	Speaker	Host
April 2	()
April 9	Lynn Hillenbrand (Caltech) TBD
April 16	()
April 23	()
April 30	()
May 7	()
May 14	()
May 21	()
May 28	()
June 4	()