Pizza Lunch, Fall 2010

Pizza lunch is a proud and venerable tradition of the Columbia Astronomy department, whose only constant seems to be pizza and announcements. In Fall 2010, the format for topics of discussions has changed a bit, under the iron fist and velvet glove of Josh Peek and Ryan Joung, respectively. Three or four presenters will be scheduled each week to guide discussions or presentations on topics of their choosing. Each presenter is expected to speak / guide discussion for roughly 15 minutes. The presentations should fit one or more of the following descriptions:

— Casual, but well researched, discussions and questions about topics relevant to astronomy today. The speaker need not get up from his or her seat, and discussions do not need to have visual aides.

— Presentations of the author's recent work, with a focus on interesting, provocative results. Presenters are encouraged to pose genuine questions to the group. Presenters are strongly encouraged to limit themselves to presenting 3 relevant figures from their work.

— Presentations of the recent work of others, with a focus on interesting, provocative results. Presenters are encouraged to pose genuine questions to the group. Presenters are strongly encouraged to limit themselves to presenting 3 relevant figures from the work.

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Date

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

September 14

Josh & Ryan

Introduction to Pizza Lunch

Lia

Internet Resources

Jess

metal transport to the gaseous outskirts of galaxies

David Schiminovich

Something interesting

September 21

September 28

October 5

October 12

October 19

October 26

November 2

November 9

November 16

November 23

November 30

December 7

December 14

December 21