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May 2016
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Jacqueline van Gorkom,
Columbia Univ.,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 6th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Nevin Weinberg,
Assistant Professor ,
Physics,
MIT,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami,
CfA,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition
Jonathan Fortney,
UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, May 13th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery
Wen-fai Fong,
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Arizona,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Jackie Villadsen,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation
Prof. Jorge Moreno,
Cal Poly Pomona,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies
Blakesley Burkhart,
Harvard,
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth
Morgan Cable,
Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section,
JPL,
Friday, May 20th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age
Tessa Baker,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,
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)
Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth
Morgan Cable,
Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section,
JPL,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology
Lars Bildsten,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, May 27th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations
Macarena Lagos,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Imperial College London,