Astronomy Pizza Lunch / Fall 2006

Talks and Pizza are held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, beginning at 12:00pm. Slices of pizza are $1 each.

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Date		Talks by		Institution		Title/Topic		Organizing Students
Sep 12		Everyone		Columbia University		Updates from everyone on their summer activities		Nithya & Taka
Sep 19		Michael J. Way		GISS/NASA		"Viewpoints: A high-performance high-dimensional exploratory data analysis tool"		Nithya & Taka
Sep 26		Michael Brown		Princeton University		"The Assembly of Red Galaxies"		Nithya & Taka
Oct 03		Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo		UPenn		Cosmic Applications of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect		Nithya & Taka
		Dave Spiegel		Columbia		MDM observations of a planetary transit
Oct 10		Kristen Menou		Columbia		"A Tough Day on an Extrasolar Planet"		Bjorn & Stephanie
		Arlin Crotts		Columbia		"Save the Moon"
Oct 17		---TBD---		TBD		TBD		Bjorn & Stephanie
Oct 24		---TBD---		TBD		TBD		Bjorn & Stephanie
Oct 31		---TBD---		TBD		TBD		Bjorn & Stephanie
Nov 07		Simona Gallerani		Trieste		"Reionization signatures in QSO absorption spectra"		Antara & Andreea
Nov 14		Orsola de Marco		AMNH		TBD		Antara & Andreea
		Kathryn Johnston		Columbia		interesting results from a conference		Antara & Andreea
Nov 21		Keivan Stassun		Vanderbilt University		"Building Bridges to Diversity in Physics and Astronomy" (Abstract)		Antara & Andreea
Nov 28		Nick Bond		Princeton		"Crawling the Cosmic Web: An Exploration of Filamentary Structure"		Antara & Andreea
		Remi Soummer		AMNH		TBD		Antara & Andreea
Dec 05		Jeffrey Linsky		U. Colorado, Boulder		The Local Interstellar Medium		Jen
		Michel Zamojski		Columbia		TBD		Jen
Dec 12		Caleb Scharf		Columbia		Update on CU Astrobiology		Jen
		Andreea Petric		Columbia		TBD		Jen

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Faculty and Students: If you have a visitor coming for a given week this semester who would like to speak, please contact the students in charge for that month.

Also, it is possible (in fact, preferred) to have multiple people give talks for a given pizza lunch. Please do not hesitate to suggest a second/third/Nth speaker for a given pizza lunch date.