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SOFIA Science Center Colloquia: Spring/Summer 2009

The talks are held in Building N-211, room 205, usually on Wednesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, and are followed by a wine and cheese reception. Any exceptions to the location, day or time of the talk are noted in the table below.

SOFIA COLLOQUIA: SPRING 2009
Date
Speaker (Affiliation)
Title
February 4
Louis Allamandola
(NASA Ames)
Astronomical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
February 10
(Tue)
Ned Wright
(UCLA)
The Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer - WISE
February 26
(Thu)
David Neufeld
(JHU)
Molecular astrophysics with the Spitzer Space Telescope

March 4
Dan Clemens
(Boston U.)
The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS)
March 11
Mark Krumholz
(UC Santa Cruz)
The Formation of Massive Stars

March 18

Jason Aufdenberg
(Embry-Riddle)
Getting to Know Stars at Very High Angular Resolution
April 1
Mark Morris
(UCLA)
A Large-Scale HST Survey of Paschen-alpha Emission in the Galactic Center
April 8
Geoff Clayton
(LSU)
The Evolutionary History of the R_Coronae Borealis Stars
April 15
Alex Lazarian
(UW Madison)
Quantitative Theory of Grain Alignment and its Implications

April 22
Göran Sandell
(SOFIA/USRA)
Young Stars and Proto-stellar Cores near NGC 2023

April 29
Steve Howell
(NOAO)
Dust in Cataclysmic Binaries
May 6
Nathan Smith
(UC Berkeley)
Dust Formation in Supernovae Interacting with Dense Circumstellar Material
May 13
Paul Goldsmith
(JPL)
Large Scale Structure of the Taurus Molecular Cloud Probed with High Spatial Dynamic Range Spectral Line Mapping
May 20
James Graham
(UC Berkeley)
Direct Detection of Exoplanets
May 27
Carl Heiles
(UC Berkeley)
So You Thought the Diffuse Interstellar Medium is All Old-Hat?
June 3
Frederick Baganoff
(MIT)
How Luminous was the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole in the Past?
June 10
NO COLLOQUIUM
AAS MEETING
June 17
Michael Cushing
(U. Hawaii)
Ultracool Atmospheres: From Brown Dwarfs to Exoplanets

June 24

Richard Crutcher
(U. Illinois)
Observations of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds: Testing Star Formation Theory

SOFIA COLLOQUIA: SUMMER 2009
Date
Speaker (Affiliation)
Title
July 22
Robin Shelton
(U. Georgia)
Interpreting the Hot Gas in the Milky Way’s Halo
July 29
Robert Rubin
(NASA Ames)
Spitzer reveals what’s behind Orion’s Bar
August 26
Alexander Tielens
(Leiden)
The Herschel Space Observatory

September 9
Martin Ruzek
(SOFIA/USRA)
Exploring the Rivers of China from Space: Tales from the Edge of Tibet


 
 

 



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