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Date: Friday, November 2, 2007
Title: Everything you ever wanted to know about parallel processing
Speaker: Dr. Andrj Prsa
From: Villanova Astronomy & Astrophysics
Time/Place: 1:30PM Location Mendel 341 -- Reception after the talk in Mendel 455
 
Date: Friday April 20,2007
Title: Mars, Venus...and what's Life got to do with it

Speaker: Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch
From: Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
Time/Place: 4:30PM Location Mendel 102 -- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor Mendel, Room 455

 
Date: Tuesday April 3,2007
Title: Magnetic Activity in M Dwarf Stars: Observations With SDSS

Speaker: John Bochanski VU Class of 02, PhD Candidate
From: Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Washington
Time/Place: 5:00PM Location Mendel 103 -- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455

Date: Friday March 30,2007
Title:
Worlds in Transit 

Speaker:
Dr. Kailash Sahu
From: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Time/Place: 4:30PM Location Mendel 103 -- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455

 

Date: Friday February 23, 2007
Title:
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Modeling Eclipsing Binary Stars
Speaker: Dr Andrej Prsa
From: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia / Villanova University
Time/Place: 4:30PM Location: 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:00PM 4th Floor, Mendel 455

 

Date: Friday December 1, 2006
Title:
Novae, Supernovae and Hypernovae: Nature's Threee Greatest Explosions

Speaker:
Dr Edward Sion
From:
Villanova University
Time/Place:
12:00-1:30PM Location: Fedigan Room SAC-- RSVP 610-519-7325

 

Date: Friday December 1, 2006
Title: Weighting Neutron Stars
Speaker:
Dr David Nice
From:
Bryn Mawe College
Time/Place: 3:00PM Location 213 Mendel-- Refreshments 2:30PM

 

Date: Friday November 17, 2006
Title:
The Kepler Mission: Searching for Earthlike Planets
Speaker: Dr Yoji Kondo
From: NASA
Time/Place: 4:00PM Location 341 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Friday November 10, 2006
Title:
Dark Energy or Worse
Speaker: Dr Sean Carroll
From: Dept of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Time/Place: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Tuesday April 25, 2006
Title:
X-Ray Emissions from Massive Stars

Speaker:
Dr David Cohen
From: Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College
Time/Place:
5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Wednesday April 19, 2006
Title: Turbulent Mixing of Metals by Massive Stars in the ISM
Speaker: Dinshaw S. Balsara
From: University of Notre Dame
Time/Place: 5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Friday March 17, 2006
Title:
Accretion in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables: Models and Observations

Speaker:
Dr Kinegunda Belle
From:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Time/Place:
5:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 4:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Friday February 17, 2006
Title:
Classical Novae: Things That Go Pop in The Night
Speaker: Dr. Karen Vanlandingham
From: West Chester University
Time/Place: 4:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Wednesday December 7, 2005
Title:
Evolution of Close, Interacting Binaries: Magnetic vs Non-Magnetic

Speaker:
Dr. Steve B. Howell
From:
WIYN Observatory and NOAO
Time/Place:
4:00PM Location 341 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:30PM 4th Floor Mendel

 

Date: Friday November 18, 2005
Title:
Solar Surface Convection and Helioseismology

Speaker: Professor Manfred Cuntz
From:
University of Taxas at Arlington
Time/Place:
4:00PM Location 103 Mendel-- Refreshments 3:45PM 4th Floor Mendel