Faculty Research Talks


All talks are on Tuesdays in Duane D142 from 3:00 - 3:50pm.

First- and second-year graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend, and all graduate and undergraduate students are welcome. There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions. This is very informal - come ready to ask questions of the speakers or just to learn what research is going on in the department!!


**EARLY FINISH DAYS**
Because of a conflict with ASTR 5835, the Faculty Research Talks will end at 3:25 on these days.


Fall 2012 Schedule

Seth Hornstein, organizer


         Date    
Speaker
 Title
Sept 11 Nick Schneider
Larry Esposito 		Escaping Atmospheres and the MAVEN Mission
Cassini studies of Saturn's rings
Sept 18 Doug Duncan
EARLY FINISH		 How Technology Affects Student Learning and the Upcoming $2.5M remodel of Fiske Planetarium
Sept 25 Jack Burns
EARLY FINISH		 Space Science from the Moon
Oct 2 Webster Cash
EARLY FINISH		 Direct Observations of Exoplanets with Starshades
Oct 9 Juri Toomre
Brad Hindman 		 Joys of convection and dynamos in our nearest star
Acoustic Imaging of the Solar Interior
Oct 16 Jim Green
EARLY FINISH		 Space Instrumentation
Oct 23 Jeremy Darling
EARLY FINISH		 Black Holes, Galaxies, Star Formation, and Cosmology
Oct 30 John Bally
EARLY FINISH		 The Feedback Ladder in Star Formation , the IMF, & the Galactic Ecology
Nov 6 Jeffrey Linsky
Andrew Hamilton		 Reconstructing the Lyman-alpha and extreme-ultraviolet radiation incident on exoplanet atmospheres
Inside Black Holes
Nov 13 Fran Bagenal
Phil Armitage		 Planetary magnetospheres, small (Pluto) and big (Jupiter)
Protoplanetary disks and planet formation
Nov 20 Fall Break - No Talks
Nov 27 Mike Shull Galaxies and Cosmology: Theory and Observations
Dec 4 Nils Halverson
Rosalba Perna
 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Measurements as a Probe of Fundamental Physics
Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics
Dec 11 Dave Brain
John Stocke		 How charged particles change planets
Ethnic Astronomy