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Spring 2008 Colloquium Series

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

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 31	Jim Bell, Cornell Univ.	"Shooting the Moon: Is There Science at z 0?"
February 7	Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Host: Yervant Terzian	"Will the Smooth Stellar Spheroid Please Stand Up?"
Februay 14	Bruce Macintosh, LLNL Host: Jamie Lloyd	"Direct detection of extrasolar planets and the Gemini Planet Imager"
February 21	Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Harvard Host: Jean-Luc Margot	"Catastrophic Disruption of Small Bodies: Planet Formation Isn't Getting Any Easier"
February 28 Colloquium CANCELLED	Ralph Lorenz and Elizabeth Turtle, Johns Hopkins Univ. Host: Joe Burns	"Lakes and Seas on Titan, and an Ocean Within"
March 6	Paul Goldsmith, JPL Host: Don Campbell	"The Herschel Space Observatory: Potential, Plans, and Current Status"
March 13	Rachel Bean, Cornell University Host: David Chernoff	"Observing Brane-Inflation"
March 27	Sharon Morsink, Univ. Alberta Host: Ira Wasserman	"X-ray Pulsars and the Search for the Supra-nuclear Equation of State"
April 3	Mark Wyman, Perimeter Institute Host: Ira Wasserman	"Beyond Vanilla Cosmology: The Search for Deviations from Inflationary Lambda-CDM"
April 10	Gary Melnick, Harvard-Smithsonian The Josephine Lawrence Hopkins Foundation Colloquium Host: Jim Houck	"Following the Water: A Trek Through Interstellar Clouds to Other Star Systems"
April 17	Peter Goldreich, Institue for Advanced Study The Maryanne Shelley Jessup MacConochie Colloquium Host: Ira Wasserman	"Reading the Record of Ancient Impacts"
April 21 -- MONDAY Physics Colloquium 4:00 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium	Alexei Filippenko, Univ Calif-Berkeley Salpeter Lecturer Host: Dong Lai	"Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy"
April 21 -- WEDNESDAY Public Lecture 7:00 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium	Alexei Filippenko, Univ Calif-Berkeley Salpeter Lecturer Host: Dong Lai	"Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe"
April 24	Alexei Filippenko, Univ Calif-Berkeley Salpeter Lecturer Host: Dong Lai	"The Lick Observatory Supernova Search, and Follow-Up Studies of Supernovae"
May 1	Leisa Townsley, Penn State Host: Greg Sloan	"Not Your Grandmother's HII Regions: An X-ray Tour of Massive Star- forming Regions"