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Astrophysics Seminars for Spring 2006 |
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE/TOPIC | HOST |
| Mar. 28 | Prof. Re'em Sari | Caltech | The Formation of The Solar System | Vicky Kalogera |
| April 11 | Prof. Richard Lovelace | Cornell University | Propeller Driven Outflows and Poynting Jets of Fast Rotating Magnetized Stars | Ron Taam |
| April 18 | Prof. Alex Wolszczan | Penn State Univ | Searches for Planets Around Post-Main Sequence Stars | Fred Rasio |
| April 25 | Prof. Mike A'Hearn | Univ. of Maryland | Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1 | Dave Meyer |
| May 2 | Prof. Riccardo Giovanelli | Cornell University | “A Neutral Hydrogen Survey of the Local Universe” | Mel Ulmer |
| May 4 *Thursday* |
Dr. Robert Millis | Lowell Observatory | “The Discovery Channel Telescope and its Application to Exploration of the Kuiper Belt” |
Dave Meyer |
| May 9 | Prof. Alex Lazarian | Univ. of Wisconsin | Probing Magnetized Turbulence with Spectral Line Measurements | Giles Novak |
| May 16 | Prof. Daniel Chung | Univ. of Wisconsin | TBA | Andre de Gouvea |
| May 23 | Dr. Andrew Youdin | Princeton | Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks and the Formation of Planetesimals | Fred Rasio |
| May 30 | Dr. Darek Lis | Caltech | Deuteration and Depletion: Tracing the Physical Condition in Cold, Dense ISM | Farhad Yusef-Zadeh |
| July 27 | Dr. Pau Amaro Seoane | Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik | IMBHs in Colliding Clusters: Implications for Lower-Frequency GW Astronomy | John Fregeau |