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Fall 2007 Colloquium Series

Thursdays* at 4:30 p.m. in 105 Space Sciences
*unless noted otherwise

Date	Speaker	Topic
August 28 (Tuesday)	Carolyn Porco, Univ. of Arizona Host: Joseph Veverka	"Cassini Explores the Saturn System"
September 6	Andrew West (Univ. of California at Berkeley) Host: Riccardo Giovanelli	"HI-Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
September 13	Steve Squyres (Cornell University) Host: David Chernoff	"Recent Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission"
September 20	Jonathan Levine (Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, Univ. of Chicago) Host: Phil Nicholson	"Nuclear Astrophysics on the Micron Scale: Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry on Presolar Grains and Interplanetary Dust Particles.
September 27 COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED	Kevin Knuth (Univ. at Albany) Host: Tom Loredo	"Identifying Complex Organic Molecules in Interstellar Clouds"
October 4	Chris Thompson (CITA) Host: David Chernoff	"What are Gamma-Ray Bursts and How do They Shine?"
October 11	Dan Watson (Univ. of Rochester) Host: Jim Houck/David Chernoff	"Rainfall From Protostellar Envelopes Onto Protoplanetary Disks"
October 18	Evan Skillman (Univ. of Minnesota) Host: Riccardo Giovanelli	"The Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies"
October 23 (Tuesday) Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium 4:45 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium	Andrew Lyne, Univ. of Manchester Thomas Gold Lecturer Host: Jim Cordes	"The Double Pulsar System J0737-3039"
October 25 Public Lecture 4:45 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium	Andrew Lyne, Univ. of Manchester Thomas Gold Lecturer Host: Jim Cordes	"Pulsars -- The Finest Clocks in the Universe"
November 1	Jim Stone (Princeton University) Host: Marina Romanova/Richard Lovelace	"MHD Turbulence and Transport in Accretion Flows"
November 8	Dave Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA) Host: Jamie Lloyd	"The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology"
November 15	John Nousek (Penn State Univ.) Host: Tom Loredo	"'Swiftly' Searching the Sky: The First Three Years of the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer"
November 29	Ellen Zweibel (Univ. of Wisconsin) Host: Ira Wasserman	"The Origin and Evolution of Magnetic Fields"