===== Fall 2012 ===== 

Organizers: Nathan Roth and Aaron Lee 

Survey results: {{:gspssurvey2012.pdf}}

===== Schedule =====

^ Date ^ Student ^ Talk Title ^ Postdoc ^ Talk Title ^
| 24 Aug, 2012  | Chris Klein | **Qual Talk**: Studies of RR Lyrae Variables to Improve Local Distance Measurements |||
| 31 Aug, 2012  | Jonnie Pober | **Job Talk**: Recent Results from the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization [PAPER] | None |  |
| 7 Sept, 2012  | Daniel Perez-Becker | **Qual Talk**: Atmospheres of Short-Period Exoplanets: From Sub-Mercuries to Hot Jupiters |||
| 14 Sept, 2012 | Lauren Weiss (15 min) | Testing Hot Jupiter Inflation in a Kepler Multi-Planet System | Grad: Adam Miller | How to Find the Rare Sources All New Surveys Promise: Machine-learning Enabled Classification and Discovery in Time-Domain Data Sets  |
| 21 Sept, 2012 | Graduate Student / Post-Doc Forum ||||
| 28 Sept, 2012 | Eve Lee | Milky Way Star Forming Complexes and ISM Turbulence | Meredith Hughes | Proposal Writing from the Other Side (or, what I learned by being on three TACs last year) |
| 5 Oct, 2012   | Sedona Price | Dust extinction in star forming galaxies at z~1.5 | Short Talks: Sedona and Francesca | Faculty Meeting: The Exit Talks , Bay Area Science Festival |
| 12 Oct, 2012  | James McBride | Magnetic Fields and Molecular Gas in Starburst Galaxies | Brad Cenko | The Present and Future of Lick Observatory |
| 19 Oct, 2012  | Isaac Shivvers | Highly-eccentric eclipsing binaries in modern photometric surveys | Adrian Liu | How measurable is the high-redshift 21cm global signal trough? |
| 26 Oct, 2012  | Erik Petigura | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: History and Current Efforts | Outsider: Gabriel Dunn | Science Careers Outside of Academia |
| 2 Nov, 2012   | Chat Hull | **Premature Job Talk:** Are magnetic fields and outflows aligned in protostellar cores? |||
| 9 Nov, 2012   | Jacob Lynn| Dissipation and Heating in MHD Turbulence |  |  |
| 16 Nov, 2012  | Yookyung Noh| Filamentary Environment and Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters |  |  |
| 23 Nov, 2012  | No meeting (Thanksgiving) ||||
| 30 Nov, 2012  | Graduate Student / Post-Doc Forum ||||
| 7 Dec, 2012   | Kaylan Burleigh | Mapping the Serpens molecular cloud in CO J=2-1 and 13CO J=2-1 emission | - | - |