Our normal colloquium time is Fridays at 3:15 in BX102.
Refreshments served at 3:00pm in the Astronomy Conference Room (ASTR 119).
Click on Title for Speaker's abstract.

Gary J. Ferland University of Kentucky
What Powers the Optical Filaments in Cool Core Clusters of Galaxies?
September 13
Oleg Gnedin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Golbular Clusters as Tracers of Galaxy Assembly
September 20
Lucia Ayala Asensio Berkeley
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe before the 20th Century
September 27
Stephen Bradshaw Rice University
TBA (Solar)
October 4
Adam Leroy VLA
TBA
October 11
Adam McKay NMSU (PhD Defense)
The Volatile Composition of Comets as Inferred from Gas Production
October 25
Brendan Mullan Penn State University
Under Pressure: Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of Interacting Galaxies
November 1
Sijing Shen University of California at Santa Cruz
The Galaxy-Circumgalactic Medium Ecosystem in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations
November 8
Kevin Marvel AAS
Crazy Washington and its Impact on Astronomy
November 15 2 pm - special time
Amanda Ford University of Arizona
QSO Absorption Lines and the Circumgalactic Medium
November 22
Jack Ireland NASA, Goddard
TBA (Solar)
December 6
Don Neidig, USAF Research Lab, and Former staff member, National Solar Observatory
What Astronomers Might Want to Know About Global Warming
December 13

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