JPL Astrophysics Luncheon Seminars
Monday 12:00-1:00, Room 169-336

Scheduled Speakers for 2007:


Date Speaker Title
Jan 8 no talk AAS meeting
Jan 15 no talk Martin Luther King Day
Jan 22 Wiley Wang (Columbia) Consistency Check on Concordance Cosmology
Jan 29 Geoffrey Bryden (JPL) Debris Disks around Sun-like Stars
Feb 5 Augusto Carballido (JPL) Dust Flow in Turbulent Protoplanetary Disks
Feb 19 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 26 Peter Plavchan (JPL) M Dwarf Planetary Systems
Mar 5 no talk CALISTO workshop
Mar 12 Joe Carson (JPL) Direct Imaging of Substellar Companions with Spitzer/IRAC
Mar 19 Di Li (JPL) Herschel Key Projects
Mar 26 Ian O'Dwyer (JPL) The QUIET CMB Experiment
April 2 Richard Umstaetter (JPL) Parameter Estimation for Gravitational Wave Signals
April 9 Mark Swain (JPL) Mid-IR Spectrum of the Transiting Exoplanet HD209458b
April 16 Kevin Huffenberger (JPL) Cosmic Microwave Background at Large & Small Scales
April 23 Mairi Brookes (JPL) Cosmological Evolution of Radio Galaxies
April 30 Angelle Tanner (MSC/JPL) Are M dwarfs viable planet search targets & do we care?
May 7 Paul Goldsmith (JPL) HI & H2 in the ISM: Conversion, Lab Data, & Timescales
May 14 Jeff Crowder (JPL) Parameter Extraction in LISA Data Analysis
May 21 Clive Dickinson (JPL) Evidence for Anomalous (Spinning?) Dust Emission
May 28 no talk Memorial Day
June 4 Michael Zemcov (JPL) CMB Temperature & Polarization Results from QUaD
June 11 Paul Goldsmith (JPL) CCAT
June 18 Paul Woods (JPL) Complex Carbon Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks
July 9 Julie Castillo (JPL) Iapetus, Saturn formation times
July 23 Neal Turner (JPL) Accretion & Mixing in Protostellar Disks:
Probing the Underlying Processes with ALMA
July 30, 11:30 Alex Filippenko (Earth and Space Science Colloquium; von Karmen)
Aug 13 Francis O'Donovan (CalTech) Detection & Exploration of Exoplanets
from the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey
Aug 20 Howie Marion (U Texas) Use of Near-IR Spectra to Probe the
Chemical Structure of Type Ia Supernovae
Aug 28, Tuesday PostDoc Research Day Posters
Sept 3 no talk Labor Day
Sept 10 Sally Robinson (UCSC) Saturn formation
Sept 13-14, CalTech Greater IPAC Science Symposium
Sept 17; 11:30; 180-101 Franco Rappazzo et al. (JPL) PostDoc Research Day Talks
Sept 24; 11:30; vonKarmen Sean Solomon (Carnegie) Messenger to Mercury (ESS Colloquium)
Oct 1 Steve Levin (JPL) JUNO
Oct 8 Scott Dahm (CalTech) Primordial & Transitional Disks in IC 348 & Upper Sco
Oct 15 Dan Coe (JPL) Cracking the code of strong gravitational lensing:
LensPerfect Dark Matter massmap of Abell 1689
Oct 22 Theo ten Brummelaar (CHARA) CHARA results
Oct 29 Ali Vanderveld (JPL) Corrections to the Measured Cosmological Constant
due to Local Inhomogeneity
Nov 5 Jason Marshall (JPL) Decomposing Dusty Galaxies:
PAH Emission from Starbursts, AGNs, and ULIRGs
Nov 8, Thurs, 4:00 Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton) Coronagraphs for Imaging Planets from Space
Nov 12 postponed (conflict with labwide talk)
Nov 19 Jun Zhang (Berkeley) Measuring Cosmic Shears in Fourier Space
Nov 26 Frantz Martinache (Cornell) High Contrast Imaging with Aperture Masking Interferometry
Dec 3 Geoff Bower (Berkeley) Radio Interferometric Planet Search
Dec 10 Nick Law (CalTech) Getting Lucky at Palomar:
2X HST resolution in the visible
Dec 24 no talk Christmas Holiday
Dec 31 no talk New Year Holiday

Previous Speakers: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

General directions for speakers
contact: Geoffrey.Bryden@jpl.nasa.gov