Spring 2009

First day of classes: Jan. 14
No colloquium Jan. 15

Jan 22  Chas Beichman, Caltech
        Observing Planets with JWST and Beyond
    29  Jonathan Lunine, LPL
	Titan:  A Once and Future Earth?

Feb 5   Dave Silva, NOAO
	Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies: New Windows at 2.2 microns
    12  Mike Meyer, Steward
        Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: The Makings of an
        Epicurean Feast
    19  Nick Suntzeff, Texas A&M 
        The Carnegie Supernova Project
    26  Alexandra Pope, NOAO
        The 2008 Census of High-Redshift, Dusty Galaxies

March 5  Paul Goldsmith, JPL, Caltech 
         The Large Scale Structure of the Taurus Molecular Cloud:
         What Really Controls Star-formation?
     12  Hans-Walter Rix, MPI
         Do the Milky Way's Outskirts Live Up to Cosmological Expectations?
     19  Spring Break
     26  Trevor Weekes, SAO
         Extragalactic Astronomy at the Extreme with VERITAS

April 2  Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley
         HST Imaging of Fomalhaut:  Direct detection of an exosolar
         planet and Kuiper Belt around a nearby star 
      9  Mark Reid, CFA
         Measuring the Cosmos
     16  Ann Hornschemeier, GSFC
         The International X-ray Observatory
     23  Adam Burgasser, MIT
         Galactic Diversity: The Many Colors of Brown Dwarfs  
     30  Richard Cool, Princeton University
         Constraining the Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies
         Since z~1

May   7  Moshe Elitzur, University of Kentucky
         The AGN Torus: A Paradigm Change

Last day of classes: May 6