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January 2017
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Dan Stern,
JPL,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 12th, 2017
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Friday, January 13th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Magnetic field's travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma
Siyao Xu,
Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Universe through X-ray Eyes
Fiona Harrison,
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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)
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook Univ.,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Todd Thompson,
Ohio State Univ. ,
Friday, January 20th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Twofold Symmetries of the Pure Gravity Action
Grant Remmen,
Graduate Student, Theoretical Physics, Hertz Fellow,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Intergalactic Medium Near Reionization
Prof. George Becker,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 26th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE: Different Day than Usual
Recent progress of compact binary merger simulations in Kyoto group
Kenta Kiuchi,
Research Associate Professor,
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,
Friday, January 27th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Three-quarters of the Sky, up to 120 kpc: Mapping the Galactic Halo in 3D with PS1 RR Lyrae Stars
Branimir Sesar,
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA),