DTM's Astronomy Group Meetings 2011-2012

DTM's Astronomy Group Meetings 2011-2012

Seminars are hosted in our Astronomy Library from 11am-noon on Fridays.
If you would like to be added to our email list or suggest a speaker,
please contact Susan Benecchi (sbenecchi at dtm . ciw . edu)

Spring Semester 2012

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic	Institution
6-Jan-2012	George Cody	A Self Consistent Explanation for D/H Variation in Primitive Organic Solids	DTM
13-Jan-2012	Catherine Neish	Radar Love: Mini-RF Observes the Moon	JHU
16-Jan-2012 (note:Monday, 2pm)	Bin Yang		Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
20-Jan-2012	Daniel Jontof-Hutter	Dynamics in Dusty Rings: Magnetic Field Effects on Orbiting Dust Grains	UMD
27-Jan-2012	Sebastian Daemgen	Protoplanetary Disks of TTauri Binary Systems in the Orion Nebula Cluster	ESO

8-Feb-2012 (note:Wednesday,2pm)	Danielle Piskorz	Corona Formation on Venus via Extension and Lithospheric Instability	DTM
10-Feb-2012	Julio Chaname	Gyrochronology Relations at Several Gyr Using Wide Binaries	Universidad Catolica de Chile
17-Feb-2012	Max Mutchler	Asteroids/ZooUniverse Project	STScI
24-Feb-2012	No seminar -- people traveling

2-Mar-2012	Deborah Domingue Lorin	Properties of Mercury's Surface derived from MESSENGER observations	PSI
9-Mar-2012	Martha Boyer	Cool Evolved Stars in Local Group Galaxies	STScI
16-Mar-2012	Joseph Weingartner	The Alignment of Grains with the Interstellar Magnetic Field	GMU
23-Mar-2012	Rebecca Martin	Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets	STScI
30-Mar-2012	Speaker postponed -- No seminar

6-Apr-2012	No seminar, holiday
13-Apr-2012	Andrew Beck	Early Results from the Dawn Mission	Smithsonian
20-Apr-2012	Aki Roberge	TBD	GSFC
27-Apr-2012	No seminar – STEM event on the National Mall

4-May-2012	Michael Kelly	Comet Hartley 2: The Latest and the Greatest	University of Maryland
11-May-2012	Justin Khoury	Before the Big Bang	University of Pennsylvania
18-May-2012
25-May-2012	Memorial Day Weekend

1-Jun-2012	Paul Ray	Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Results on Pulsars	Naval Research Laboratory
8-Jun-2012	Jessica Donaldson	Herschel PACS Observations and Modeling of Debris Disks	UMD, GSFC
15-Jun-2012
22-Jun-2012	Deborah Padgett	The WISE Debris Disk Survey	GSFC
29-Jun-2012	Alycia Weinberger	TW-Hydra Association	DTM

6-Jul-2012	Avi Mandell	TBD: (something on Circumstellar disk chemistry or exoplanet observations)	GSFC
13-Jul-2012	Stephen Rinehart	TBD	GSFC

Fall Semester 2011

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic	Institution
2-Sep-2011	Roger Thompson	Space Debris	Aerospace Corp
9-Sep-2011
16-Sep-2011	Aaron Burton	Uncommon amino acids in meteorites: evidence for uncommon chemistry?	GSFC
23-Sep-2011	Stephen Redman	The Search for Other Earths: Precise Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared	NIST
30-Sep-2011	Paul Byrne	The Structure of Large Volcanoes on the Terrestrial Planets	DTM

7-Oct-2011	No Seminar	DPS Meeting this week
17-Oct-2011 (note: Monday,2pm)	Rita Mann	The Potential to Form Planets in the Orion Nebula	Herzberg Institute
21-Oct-2011	Sasha Hinkley	The Caltech Exoplanet Imaging Program	Caltech
27-Oct-2011 (note: Thursday,11am)	Joanna Bulger	Resolving Disks and Binaries in A-star Debris Disks	University of Exeter
28-Oct-2011	Alex Storrs	Spectra of the Lunar Atmosphere in the Vacuum Ultraviolet	Towson University

4-Nov-2011	David Nidever	New Discoveries in The Clouds	U. Virginia
11-Nov-2011	Veteran's Day — Campus closed
18-Nov-2011	Rossman Irwin	Fluvial erosion on early Mars: New constraints on timing and hydrology	PSI
25-Nov-2011	Thanksgiving — Campus closed

1-Dec-2011 (note: Thursday,3pm)	Amaury Triad	The Origins of Hot Jupiters	Geneva Observatory
2-Dec-2011	Matthew Knight	Optical Observations of Comet 103P/Hartley 2	Lowell Observatory
9-Dec-2011	Thayne Currie	Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Planet-Forming Disks at Small Angular Separations	GSFC
16-Dec-2011	Steve Rodney	Type Ia Supernovae in the Early Universe	JHU
23-Dec-2011
30-Dec-2011	Campus closed