Astronomy Pizza Lunch / Fall 2009

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	Speaker		Topic		Host
Sept 15	Andreas Svedin		Decreases in the Solar B-Field					Astroph Papers
	Cameron Hummels		Outreach at Columbia
Sept 22	Cameron Hummels & Erika Hamden		Solar Eclipse 2009					Astroph Papers
	Arlin		Surprise
	Kristen		The Palomar Transient Factory
Sept 29	Kathryn		The shape of the Galaxy dark matter halo					Astroph Papers
	Josh Schroeder		Degrees-of-freedom, covariance matrices, and principle component analysis
Oct 6	Ryan Joung		Galaxy mergers in a cosmological setting					Astroph Papers
	Mike Way		Low Luminosity Quasar-Galaxy Environments in the SDSS		Kristen
Oct 13	Rudy Montez (RIT)				Jeno			Astroph Papers
	Adam Showman (Univ. Arizona & Columbia)		Planetology		Kristen
Oct 20	Mordecai		Star formation		Kristen			Astroph Papers
	Arlin		Water on the Moon
Oct 27	Brian Jackson (GSFC)		Tides in Exoplanets		Kristen			Astroph Papers
	Alastair Edge (Durham)		Clusters of Galaxies		Caleb
Nov 3	Laura, Kathryn & Maureen		Recent Conferences + 5 min intro to the new Department Google Calendar on the Wiki		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Nov 10	Kristen		Atmospheres in motion & Future pizza lunches					Astroph Papers
Nov 17	Mike Shara		Wolf-Rayet Survey					Astroph Papers
Nov 24	Tim Paglione, Manel Errando		Gamma Rays from Starburst/Radio Galaxies		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Dec 1	David S.		Galex meeting highlights					Astroph Papers
	Dimitri Veras		Identifying Non-transiting Planets with Transit Timing Data		Kristen
Dec 8	Valeria Pettorino		Large-Scale Structures in Quintessence		Zoltan
	Lam Hui		Equivalence Principle		Zoltan			Astroph Papers
	David S.		A new IR satellite, ​WISE, will be launched on Friday

Dec 15	Neil Zimmerman		​An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor		Zoltan			Astroph Papers
	Taka Tanaka		​Bright Afterglow of Black Hole Merger

	Matthew O'Down		​PAHs in low-z galaxies
	Maureen Teyssier		​Wandering Stars

Faculty, research staff and students: If you have a visitor coming for a given week, please contact the person in charge for that week (do not modify this page yourself). Also be sure to add the visitor's name to the visitor page. The goal is to allow all visitors the chance to lead a brief discussion of their research.

Speakers: We aim for informal discussions about 10-20 minutes in length. Powerpoint is discouraged, but permitted for particularly relevant images.