Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar


The Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar is designed for people to present their recent work, current articles, or seminal papers, in an informal and friendly environment. We encourage talks from people at all levels ranging from faculty to advanced undergraduates.

We normally meet at noon every Tuesday in Room 1089.


Fall 2009 Schedule

Date Speaker Topic
August 25th Organizational Meeting
September 1 Errol Summerlin (NASA) Astrophysical Shocks
September 10 - special date Jonathon Gardner (GSFC) Studying Galaxy Formation with the Hubble, Spitzer, and James Webb Space Telescopes
September 15 No Seminar
September 22 Jim Liebert (University of Arizona) Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
September 29 Steve Hawley Spectrophotometry of southern HII regions and strong line diagnostics
October 6 Barbara Anthony-Twarog
October 13 Doug Duncan (University of Colorado) Promoting Scientific Thinking
October 20 Joel Hess Generalizing the Schwarzschild Spacetime to Allow for Radial Fluid Motions
October 27 Christy Tremonti (University of Wisconsin - Madison) "An Inconvenient Truth: recent evidence for a variable Initial Mass Function from UV and H-alpha surveys of the Local Volume."
November 3 Drew Overholt Spiral Arm Intersection and the Effect on Terrestrial Climate
November 10 Bronson Wacker
November 17 Gregory Rudnick Do clusters kill star formation in galaxies or just watch it die?
November 24 Cancelled due to illness of speaker
December 1 Jason Forson
December 8 Dimitri Atri

** Guidelines for Speakers **

Please send email to Gregory Rudnick (grudnick "at" ku.edu) to sign up.