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12 Sep 2006 | Fall Welcome: Featuring Snacks |
3 Oct 2006 | Jason Wright: “Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs” |
10 Oct 2006 | Greg Howes: “Magnetized Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks” |
24 Oct 2006 | John Johnson: “Measuring the Spin-Orbit Alignment of Exoplanetary Systems” |
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| Bryan Johnson: “MHD Shearing Box: New Methods and Results” |
7 Nov 2006 | Brian Metzger: “Protoneutron Star Winds with Magnetic Fields and Rotation: Consequences for Supernova Diversity, Gamma-Ray Bursts,and the Galactic Abundance of Very Heavy Elements” |
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| Dan Kocevski: “Understanding The X-ray Properties of Gamma-ray Bursts” |
21 Nov 2006 | Jesse Leaman: “The Nearby Supernova Rate” |
28 Nov 2006 | Stella Offner: Practice Qual “Numerical Studies of Low Mass Star Formation” |
5 Dec 2006 | Aaron Parsons: “The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER): System Design, Preliminary Results, and Prospects” |
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| Nathan Smith: “The formation of SN1987A's nebula, bipolar ring nebulae around blue supergiants, and implications for SN progenitors” |