Full Schedule: Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 28 |
Sanghamitra Deb Drexel |
Particle Based Lensing (PBL) |
| February 4 |
Peter Capak Caltech |
Constraints On Early Galaxy Formation From Deep Wide Field Galaxy Surveys |
| February 11 |
Adam Bolton Hawaii |
On the Mass of Massive Galaxies |
| February 18 | none |
Wunch Canceled for PCTS Event |
| February 25 |
Charlie Conroy Princeton |
The Stellar Population Synthesis Technique |
| March 4 |
Mark Dijkstra Harvard |
Lyman Alpha Emitters |
| March 11 |
Jason Nordhaus Princeton |
Dynamos and Common Envelopes in Evolved Stars |
| March 18 | none | No Wunch: Spring Break |
| March 25 |
Alex Lazarian Wisconsin |
What Aligned Grains Can Tell Us |
| April 1 |
Yue
Shen Princeton |
Supermassive Black Holes in the Hierarchical Universe: Observations and a Simple Model |
| April 8 | Inese Ivans Princeton |
Old Stellar Populations and their Chemical Compositions: Clues to Galactic Building Blocks |
| April 15 |
Elena D'Onghia CfA |
The Origin of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
| April 22 |
Michael Blanton NYU |
The ending of star-formation in galaxies |
| April 29 |
Jennifer Sokoloski Columbia |
Explosions and Jets from Accreting White Dwarfs |
| May 6 | Jonathan Tan Florida |
Massive Star Formation Through the Universe |
| May 13 |
Tassos Fragos Northwestern |
Modeling of X-ray Binaries |
| May 20 | Caleb
Scharf Columbia |
The New Astrobiology |
| May 27 |
Mariska Kriek Princeton |
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers and Overweight Galaxies |
| June 3 |
Carles Badenes Princeton |
The Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors |