FALL 2006 

August 31	Huub Rottgering        Leiden Observatory (Netherlands)
 LOFAR:  A New Low-frequency Radio Telescope

September 7    Roger Angel		Steward Observatory
  Applied Astronomy: Sunshades and Renewable Energy

September 14   Neal Evans		University of Texas
  Highlights from the Cores to Disks Spitzer Legacy Program

September 21   Chung-Pei Ma		UC Berkeley
  Mergers of Massive Galaxies and their Central Black Holes

September 28   Alice Shapley		Princeton
 Star-Formation, Chemical Enrichment, and Feedback at z~2-3.

October 5      Keivan Stassun           Vanderbilt
  Fundamental Issues in the Formation and Early Evolution of
Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

October 12                NO TALK

October 19	Constance Rockosi	UC Santa Cruz
  The Thick Disk of the Milky Way in the SEGUE Survey

October 26	Anthony Remijan		NRAO
The Search for our Molecular Origins: The Formation and Distribution of Large Prebiotic Interstellar Molecules

November 2	Teddy Cheung		Stanford
Shedding New Light on Extragalactic Radio Sources with the Great Observatories

November 9	Daniela Calzetti	STScI
Star Formation and the Schmidt Law in the Local Universe from Spitzer

November 16	Fred Ciesla		Carnegie, DTM
Chondritic Meteorites and the Evolution of the Solar Nebula

November 30	Sangeeta Malhotra	ASU
 Now we are (at Redshift) Six

December 7      Emanuele Daddi		Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
 Observational Challenges about Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Distant Universe