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
	Josh Schroeder		Degrees-of-freedom, covariance matrices, and principle component analysis
Sept 29	Kathryn		The shape of the Galaxy dark matter halo					Astroph Papers
Oct 6								Astroph Papers
Oct 13	Rudy Montez (RIT)				Jeno			Astroph Papers
Oct 20	Mordecai		Star formation		Kristen			Astroph Papers
Oct 27	Brian Jackson (GSFC)		Tides in Exoplanets		Kristen			Astroph Papers
	Alastair Edge (Durham)		Clusters of Galaxies		Caleb
Nov 3								Astroph Papers
Nov 10								Astroph Papers
Nov 17								Astroph Papers
Nov 24								Astroph Papers
Dec 1								Astroph Papers
Dec 8								Astroph Papers
Dec 15								Astroph Papers

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.