Fall 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Status	Topic
Sep 3	James McBride	G	Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3 & The Properties of the Interstellar Medium within a Star-Forming Galaxy at z=2.3
	(no 2nd speaker)
Sep 10	Jeff Silverman	G	UC Berkeley Astronomy Public Outreach
	(no 2nd speaker)
Sep 17	Cancelled
Sep 24	Matt McQuinn	P	Nonspherical similarity solutions for dark halo formation
	Adam Miller	G	The bulk of the black hole growth since z~1 occurs in a secular universe: No merger-AGN connection
Oct 1	Chung-Pei Ma	F	Everything you wanted to know about publishing …
	Paul Kalas	F	… and more
Oct 8	Margaret Pan	P	On the size distribution of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds
	Katie Silverio	G	Habitable Climates: The Influence of Eccentricity
Oct 15	Guest Speaker	–	Steve Rawlings (Oxford)
Oct 22	Nicholas McConnell	G	Quasars Hosting 10^10 Solar-Mass Black Holes
	Mike Kuhlen	P	Computational Eulerian hydrodynamics and Galilean invariance
Oct 29	Brad Cenko	P	A Substantial Population of Low Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies
	Chris Klein	G	Revisiting the Hubble sequence in the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample: a publicly available bayesian automated classification
Nov 5	Mario Riquelme	P	Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster
	Francesca Fornasini	G	The Origin and Shaping of Planetary Nebulae: Putting the Binary Hypothesis to the Test
Nov 12	Sarah Newman	G	Metallicity Gradients in High-Redshift Galaxies: Evidence for Filamentary Accretion?: Jones et al 2010, Cresci et al 2010
	Ken Shen	P	Canceled due to sickness
Nov 19	Erik Petigura	G	A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay
	Genevieve Graves	P	The Ages of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
Dec 3	Adam Morgan	G	Discovery of z ~ 8 Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field from Ultra-Deep WFC3/IR Observations
	Antonino Cucchiara	P	The Brightest Of Reionizing Galaxies Survey: Design and Preliminary Results
Dec 10	Guest Speaker	–	Brooks Hanson (Science): “Top ten reasons to be worried about the future of scientific publishing”

Spring 2010 Schedule

Original data live on lyra. For posterity, a list of speakers in alphabetical order. Asterisks denote external speakers.

* Vardha Bennert (*) * Brad Cenko * Jessie Christiansen (*) * Bethany Cobb * Tuan Do (*) * Moshe Elitzur (*) * Helene Flohic (*) * Matt George * Genevieve Graves * Assaf Horesh (*) * Chat Hull * Stephen Kane (*) * Pat Kelly (*) * Heather Knutson * Casey Law * Aaron Lee * Yu-Qing Lou (*) * Chun Ly (*) * Mike McCourt * Matt McQuinn * Adam Morgan * Don Neill (*) * Sarah Newman * Tony Piro * Jonnie Pober * Emily Rice (*) * Josh Shiode * Anand Sivaramakrishnan (*)