Fall 2012

	Bharat Ratra Kansas State University
	Dark Energy: constant or time variable?
	September 14, with local host Anatoly Klypin
	Nick Ule NMSU
	Quantifying Differential Rotation Across the Main Sequence
	September 21
	Jeff Coughlin NMSU
	September 28
	Nick Gnedin Fermi Lab
	What We Do Not Yet Know About Star Formation in Galaxies
	October 5
	Young Sun Lee Tombaugh Fellow, NMSU
	Observational Constraints on the Formation of the Milky Way's Thick Disk
	October 12
	Harry Enke Potsdam, Germany
	Data Management and Publication of Cosmological Simulations
	October 19
	Benjamine OppenheimerLeiden, Holland
	Low-redshift circumgalactic medium: confronting theory with observations
	October 26
	Peter Behroozi Stanford
	Using Observations to Constrain Physical Models of Star Formation from z=0 to z=8
	November 2
	Kyle DeGraveNMSU
	November 14, with local host Jason Jackiewicz
	Noam Libeskind AIP, Potsdam
	The orientation of Milky Way satellites: problems, solutions and open challenges.
	December 7, with local host Anatoly Klypin