| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic/Title |
| 9/12/16 |
Julie Skinner |
BU IAR |
Understanding the Solar Neighborhood through a Triptych of Low-Mass Star Populations |
| 9/19/16 |
Reshmi Mukherjee |
Columbia |
Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma-ray Observatories |
| 9/26/16 |
Mark Vogelsberger |
MIT |
The Illustris Simulation and Beyond |
| Thursday 10/6/16 @ 4:00pm |
Will Grundy |
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ |
Location Change: Sargent 101 (635 Comm Ave)
The Pluto system through New Horizons’ eyes: Better geology through chemistry
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| Tuesday 10/11/16 |
Jonathan Foster |
Legendary Entertainment (Boston) |
Star Formation to Making Stars: A Journey from Astronomy to Hollywood Data Science |
| 10/17/16 |
Stella Kafka |
AAVSO (Cambridge, MA) |
The AAVSO Program: A Resource for Variable Star Research |
| 10/24/16 |
Josh Grindlay |
CfA |
Probing Black Hole Variability on Days Century Timescales |
| 10/31/16 |
Robin Ciardullo |
Penn State |
HETDEX and the Star-Forming Galaxies of the z ~ 2 Universe |
| 11/7/16 |
Ori Fox |
STScI |
Supernovae and their Progenitor Systems (or lack thereof) |
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| 11/14/16 |
Matthew Evans |
MIT |
Gravitational Wave Detection with Advanced LIGO |
| 11/21/16 |
No Seminar |
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| 11/28/16 |
Phil Muirhead |
BU IAR |
The Mysterious Atmospheres of Low-mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Cold Jovian (Exo)Planets |
| 12/5/16 |
Tom Troland |
University of Kentucky |
The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation – Zeeman Effect Observations |
| 12/12/16 |
Mercedes Lopez-Morales |
CfA |
Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres |