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Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar
Location: 544 Campbell Hall
Time: Fridays @ 4:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Past Seminars: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
| 5 Sep 2008 | Fall Welcome |
| 12 Sep 2008 | grad: Matt George: “Why the LHC Isn't Going to Kill Us All” |
| postdoc: Lucianne Walkowicz: “Observations and Models of Quiescent M Dwarf Chromospheres” | |
| 19 Sep 2008 | grad: Aaron Lee: “Achieving Roche Densities in Protoplanetary Discs” |
| postdoc: Mate Adamkovics: “Binary KBO spectroscopy” | |
| 26 Sep 2008 | grad: Joe Converse: “The Pleiades: A Case Study in Open Cluster Formation” (practice qual) |
| 3 Oct 2008 | grad: Stella Offner: “Observations of Star Formation Simulations” (job talk) |
| 10 Oct 2008 | grad: Kristen Shapiro: “Early-Type Galaxies: The Road to Retirement” |
| postdoc: Sloane Wiktorowicz: “Unambiguous Hot Jupiter Mass from Polarimetry” | |
| 17 Oct 2008 | grad: Dan Perley “Dim and Naked: The Sordid Tale of GRB 080503 (or, Gamma-Ray Bursts Aren't Always 5th Magnitude)” |
| postdoc: Phil Chang “Kozai Oscillations in the Galactic Center” | |
| 24 Oct 2008 | Mo Ganeshalingam, Maryam Modjaz: "How to Give a Good Talk" [ printer-friendly version ] |
| 31 Oct 2008 | grad: Adam Miller: “You Don't Know and We're Not Going to Tell You: Discovery and Characterization of the Miller-Chornock Hot Guy” |
| postdoc: Nathan Smith: “The Axis of Evil” | |
| 7 Nov 2008 | postdoc: Nathan Smith: “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” |
| postdoc: Jeff Oishi: “Screw you, Bill*! Open Source Tools for Science (* you too, Steve)” | |
| 14 Nov 2008 | grad: Linda Strubbe: “The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes” (practice qual) |
| 21 Nov 2008 | postdoc: Xylar Asay-Davis “Vortex Dynamics in Jupiter's Atmosphere” |
| postdoc: Jun Zhang “How to Grow a Healthy Merger Tree” | |
| 5 Dec 2008 | grad: Holly Maness: “Reaching across the Spectrum: Resolved Debris Disk Studies from Optical to Millimeter” (practice qual) |
