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October 2010
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Monday, October 4th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Formation of Retrograde Planetary Orbits
Matthew Payne,
postdoctoral fellow in astronomy,
University of Florida,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Public Lecture
Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets
Eric Ford,
professor of astronomy,
University of Florida,
Jason Wright,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Pennsylvania State University,
Natalie Batalha,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
San Jose State University,
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
NASA and JPL,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
JWST: Not Just a High Redshift Machine!
Marcia Rieke,
professor of astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CRTS: An Open Optical Transient Survey
Andrew Drake,
computational scientist,
Caltech,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Silicon and Oxygen Abundances in Planet-host stars
Erik Brugamyer,
UTexas,
Monday, October 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution
Ji-hoon Kim,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae
Lars Bildsten,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
Friday, October 15th, 2010
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
Monday, October 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's Tidally Distorted Satellites
Kristen Howley,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Growth of Dead Galaxies in Clusters over Most of Cosmic Time
Greg Rudnick,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Kansas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Possible Explanation for Puzzling Properties of X-ray Bursts
M. Coleman Miller,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Exoplanets and Planet Formation in the Kepler Era
Jack Lissauer,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Lensing Map . . . A Redshift Survey
Margaret Geller,
HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Disk Formation in Protoplanetary Systems: Magnetic Braking and Non-ideal MHD
Ruben Krasnopolsky,
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,