Spring 2008

AAS meeting:  Jan. 8-12
Classes begin Wednesday, Jan. 16
Gem Show:  Feb. 14-17

Jan. 17:  Yancy Shirley, Steward Observatory
 The Evolution of the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation
24  Tommaso Treu, UC Santa Barbara
  Dark Matter and Black Holes Over Cosmic Time
31  Casey Papovich, Steward Observatory
 Witnessing Galaxy Formation at High Redshifts 

Feb. 8 (Friday):  J. Richard Gott III, Princeton 
  Topology of Large Scale Structure in the Universe
14 Christi Tremonti, Steward Observatory
 Gone with the Wind:  Galactic OUtflows driven by Stars and
   Quasars and their impact on galaxy evolution
21 Fred Lamb, University of Illinois 
 High-Frequency X-ray Oscillations from Neutron Stars:
 Probing Dense Matter and Strong Gravity
28 Jason Tumlinson, Yale
  New Windows on the Epoch of First Light 

March 4:  Brant Robertson, Kavli Institute, University of Chicago
  A Physical Model for Molecular Gas, Interstellar Radiation and 
  the Scale-Dependency of Star Formation in Galaxies
March 6  Fabian Heitsch, University of Michigan
  New Approaches to Understanding the Formation of 
  Molecular Clouds and Stars 
March 10:  Eric Bell, Max-Planck Institute fur Astronomie
  Evolution of Disk Galaxies in a Dark Matter-dominated Universe
March 13   James Bullock, UC Irvine
  Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies 
March 20  Spring Break
March 24  Loris Magnani, University of Georgia
  High-Latitude Molecular Clouds: A Closer Look
March 27  Michael Fall, STScI, IAS
  Life Cycles of Star Clusters
 

April 3  
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17  Marla Geha, Yale University 
24  Christine Chen, NOAO

May 1  Lin Yan, Spitzer Science Center

Classes end:  Wednesday May 7