Spring 2014

Meredith Rawls NMSU
February 14
Hal Levison Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
Growing Planets from Meter-Sized Bodies
February 21
Kevin McGouldrick LASP
Clouds on Venus
February 28
Volker Bromm UT Austin
First Stars and Galaxies
March 7
Joel Primack UCSC
ΛCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, possible detection of dark matter, opportunities for progress
March 14
Nigel Mathes
MgII absorption in QSO spectra
April 4
Nadine Nettelmann UCSC
Current prospects and limitations in our understanding of the giant planets in our Solar system
April 11
Jonathan Bird Vanderbilt
Disk of Milky Way
April 17
Adam Leroy
Gas in galaxies
April 25
Jacob VanderVliet NMSU
CGM
May 2
Jason Tumlinson StSci
The COS-Halos Survey
May 9