Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, and Planets Seminar
These lunchtime seminars take place approximately every other week,
usually on a Monday, at 12:00 noon in Room 33, Peyton Hall.
Here is last year's schedule.


Fall 2006 Title
Sept. 18 Richard Edgar, U. of Rochester The Migration of Giant Planets
Oct. 2 Dan Stinebring, Oberlin College & Leiden Observatory Exploring the Ionized ISM with Pulsars
Oct. 16 Jeffrey Oishi, AMNH Turbulent Torques on Protoplanets in a Dead Zone
Oct. 30 Mordecai Mac Low, AMNH Control of Star Formation by Gravitational Instability and Supersonic Turbulence
Nov. 13 Marshall Perrin, UC Berkeley Circumstellar dust around Herbig Ae/Be stars: A High Angular Resolution Near- and Mid-IR Survey
Nov. 27 Carlos Badenes, Rutgers U. A Different Look at Type Ia Supernovae
Dec. 11 Jonathan Foster, Harvard/CfA Far From the Galactic Plane: Adventures in Extinction Mapping

Spring 2007 Title
Jan. 22 Jason Wright, UC Berkeley Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs
Feb. 5 James Graham, UC Berkeley The Signature of Primordial Grain Growth in the Polarized Light of the AU Mic Debris Disk
Feb. 19 No seminar
Mar. 5 Jason Tumlinson, Yale U. Unraveling the Galaxy to Find the First Stars
Mar. 19 Sukanya Chakrabarti, Harvard/CfA Simulating Merging Galaxies: The Infrared View
April 2 No seminar
April 16 John Johnson, UC Berkeley Exploring the Relationship Between Stellar Mass and Planet Formation
April 30 Alex Lazarian, UW Madison TBA
May 14 Ed Jenkins, Princeton U. A New Determination of the Distribution of Interstellar Thermal Pressures

For more information contact Mark Krumholz: krumholz at astro.princeton.edu


The background image is part of Orion from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey