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Other Years: 2006 2007 2008 2010 Date   Series   Speaker   Title   Thu   Dec 17     Alison Coil (UCSD)   TBA   Mon   Dec 14     Jin Koda (Stonybrook)   CARMA Imaging of M51   Thu   Dec 10     Qizhou Zhang (CfA)   TBA   Mon   Dec 7     Jack Sayers (JPL)   SZ Effects   Thu   Dec 3     TBD (JPL)   TBD   Tue   Dec 1     Peter Eisenhardt (JPL)   The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Ultracool Brown Dwarfs   Mon   Nov 30     Pan Conrad, Bonnie Buratti, and Andrea Urban (JPL)   Women in Astronomy Conference 2009: A Summary and Report of Major Issues   Thu   Nov 19     Nancy Kiang (GISS)   Efficiency of photon energy use for life processes: implications for spectral biosignatures   Mon   Nov 16     Valeri Makarov (CalTech)   Surface Flows on the Sun, and Implications for RV Detection of Habitable Planets   Thu   Nov 12     Moshe Elitzur (U. of Kentuky)   The AGN Torus --- a Paradigm Change   Mon   Nov 9     Tom Bell (Caltech)   The Effect of Turbulent Diffusion on Interstellar Deuterium Chemistry   Thu   Nov 5     John McGraw (UNM)   Measurement Astrophysics (MAP) vs. Earth's Evil Atmosphere   Thu   Nov 5     Neil Tyson (AMNH)   400 Years of the Telescope: A Journey of Science, Technology, and Thought for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy (second screening of this IYA film)   Mon   Nov 2     Marko Krco (Cornell)   Cold Atomic Hydrogen as a Constituent of Molecular Clouds   Mon   Oct 26     Tom Bell (Caltech)   Postponed to Nov 9th   Thu   Oct 22     Daniel Stern (JPL)   The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey: From Brown Dwarfs to Reionization, and Everything In Between   Mon   Oct 19     Stuart Shaklan (JPL)   Results of a Decade Long Astrometric Search for Exoplanets: The STEPS Program at the Palomar 200-in Telescope   Mon   Oct 12     Neil de Grasse Tyson (narrator) (JPL)   400 Years of the Telescope: A journey of science, technology and thought for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy   Thu   Oct 8     Russel White (GSU)   High Precision Infrared Radial Velocities and the Search for Young Planets   Mon   Oct 5     Jens Kauffmann (JPL)   The Multi-Scale Mass-Size Relation of Molecular Clouds   Thu   Oct 1     Charlie Qi (CfA)   A Submillimeter Array View of Chemistry in Circumstellar Disks   Thu   Sep 3     Michael Werner (JPL)   Unlikely Suns Reveal Improbable Planets   Tue   Sep 1     Shinji Koide (Kumamoto Univ.)   Energy Extraction of Rotating Black Hole by Magnetic Reconnection   Mon   Aug 24     Franz Bauer (Columnbia U.)   Late-time Evolution in (some) Massive Stars: Constraints from the Nearby SN1996cr   Mon   Aug 17     James Drake (U. of Maryland)   A New Mechanism for the Acceleration of Anomalous Cosmic Rays   Thu   Aug 13     Peter Polko (Univ. Amsterdam)   MHD Models for Black Hole Jets   Mon   Aug 10     Shanshan Yu (JPL)   Laboratory terahertz spectroscopy of gaseous molecules and ions for Herschel, SOFIA and ALMA   Mon   Aug 3     Peter Dobbie (U. of Sydney)   Enhanced transport in black hole accretion flows: theory and development of a numerical radiative MHD model.   Tue   Jul 28     Katherine Kretk (UCSC)   Stalling the Migration of Short-Period Super-Earths   Thu   Jul 23     Jagadheep Pandian (MPIfR)   Methanol Masers and Massive Star Formation   Thu   Jul 16     Fabien Malbet (CNRS)   Toward the detection of habitable planets: contribution to the astrometric detection method and to the direct imaging technique.   Thu   Jul 9     Jeremy Lebreton (U. Strasbourg)   The influence of stellar noise on the detectability of Earthlike extrasolar planets   Mon   Jul 6     John Vaillancourt (Caltech)   Polarized Thermal Dust Emission in the Interstellar Medium   Thu   Jun 25     Jagadheep Pandian (MPIfR)   POSTPONED   Tue   Jun 23     George Rieke (Univ. Arizona)   Using Spitzer to Test Prejudices and Paradigms About Active Galactic Nuclei   Thu   Jun 11     Matt Mountain (STScI)   Characterizing Exoplanets – A View from Baltimore   Thu   Jun 4     Peter F. Michelson (Stanford Univ.)   The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: The First Nine Months   Thu   May 28     Alex Szalay (Hopkins)   Science in an Exponential World   Thu   May 21     Phil Marshall (UCSB)   Surveying for Strong Gravitational Lenses   Thu   May 14     Sarah Gallagher (W. Ontario)   Compact Galaxy Groups: Local Windows into High Redshift Galaxy Evolution   Thu   Apr 30     Debra Fischer (SFSU)   Formation of Planets in Binary Star Systems   Mon   Apr 27     Christ Ftaclas (IfA, U. Hawaii)   The Gemini South Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI)   Thu   Apr 23     Craig Hogan (Fermilab)   Holographic Noise   Thu   Apr 23     Craig Hogan (Fermilab)   The Sounds of Spacetime: Black Holes, Early Universe, Cosmic Strings, and Holographic Noise   Mon   Apr 20     Alyson Brooks (Caltech)   The Evolution of Disk Galaxies Over Cosmic Ages   Thu   Apr 16     NO COLLOQUIUM (N/A)   [External Visiting Committee Visit]   Mon   Mar 30     TBA (TBA)   TBA   Thu   Mar 26     Bob Gehrz (UMN)   The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)   Wed   Mar 25     Avishai Dekel (HUJI)   TBA   Mon   Mar 23     Eric Jullo (JPL)   Galaxy Clusters Mass Distribution Modeling with Strong Lensing   Thu   Mar 19     Peter Wilkinson (Univ. Manchester)   The Square Kilometer Array: Science and Discovery   Mon   Mar 16     Luisa Rebull (IPAC)   New YSOs in Taurus ... Or Maybe Just More Galaxies   Thu   Mar 12     Pawel Masur (U South Carolina)   TODAY'S COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED   Mon   Mar 9     Andrea Urban (JPL)   The Effect of Dust-gas Energetics on the Star Formation Process   Thu   Mar 5     Joachim Wambsganss (University of Heidelberg)   Searching for Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing   Mon   Mar 2     Sandrine Pires (CEA)   Application of Multiscale Methods to Weak Lensing: Reconstruction and Analysis of Dark Matter Mass Maps   Thu   Feb 26     Nick Gautier (JPL)   Science Investigations with Kepler   Mon   Feb 23     Yu Gao (PMO)   Postponed   Thu   Feb 19     Tom Prince (Caltech/JPL)   Observing the Dark Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves (special start time at 4:15)   Tue   Feb 17     Prof. Alain Leger (CNRS )   CoRoT-Exo-7b, the First Super-Earth with Radius Measurement   Thu   Feb 12     Leon Koopmans (Groningen)   LOFAR and Its Quest for the Epoch of Reionization   Thu   Feb 5     Carl Grillmair (IPAC)   Strong water absorption in the atmosphere of HD 189733b.   Mon   Jan 26     Sean Raymond (U. Colorado)   Prospects for Terrestrial Planets in the Solar System and Elsewhere.   Thu   Jan 22     Reinhard Genzel (MPE/Berkeley)   Spatially resolved dynamics of high-z star forming galaxies   Thu   Jan 15     Joe Lazio (NRL)   Radio Detection of Extrasolar Planets: Present and Future Prospects   Tue   Jan 13     Geoff Bower (UC Berkeley)   The Dynamic Radio Sky: Future Directions at cm/m-Wavelengths   Mon   Jan 12     Matt Auger (UCSB)   The Environments of Strong Lenses: Implications for Cosmology and Galaxy Structure   Sun   Jan 11     Kyle Stewart (JPL)   TBA   Fri   Jan 9     John Mather (GSFC)   JWST and Exoplanets   Thu   Jan 1     Franz Bauer (Columnbia U.)   Late-time Evolution in (some) Massive Stars: Constraints from the Nearby SN1996cr   Site Manager: Webmaster: CL 08-3220