Astronomy Pizza Lunch / Spring 2010

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		Organizer(s)
Jan 19	Everyone		AAS & Misc. Winter Fun ​Sean Carroll's 24 questions		Sarah & Destry
Jan 26	Maureen				Sarah & Destry
	Andreas
	Jules		Neutron stars without magnetic fields
Feb 2	Cameron/Josh		APPLAUSE award		Sarah & Destry
	Kathryn J		astro-ph 1001.4351
	Lia C.		Dust in the Formalhaut system
Feb 9	David H.		171 pages of Science		Sarah & Destry
	Stephanie		Stuff
	Jeff A		Double Neutron Star Formation
	Jacqueline		Molecular gas in redshift 6 quasar host galaxies [		​http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.1561]
Feb 16	Jeno		EVLA proposal		Sarah & Destry
	Jason K.		Nustar Update		Sarah & Destry
	Taka		massive black hole merger signature vs. intrinsic AGN variability		Sarah & Destry
	Josh		MDM		Sarah & Destry
Feb 23	Alex		Balloons, Batteries, and CMB Polarization		Sarah & Destry
	Josh?		Science		Sarah & Destry
	Christine		Enzo/Thesis Proposal		Sarah & Destry
	Barbara C.		GASS		Sarah & Destry
Mar 2	Zoltan		Black holes		Josh & Lia
	Jules		A mystery resolved
	Lia		Family Astro
	Josh		Teaching high school cosmology
Mar 9	Frits		Astro-H Update		Christine
	Qian Wang		Visitor from Iowa State (Jeno)
	Destry
	Josh Peek
Mar 16	Jess Werk				Christine & Destry
	Zoltan		High redshift universe conference report
	Arlin		Water INSIDE the Moon, an update
Mar 23	Kathryn J		Pisces Overdensity		Josh & Lia
	Ryan Joung
	Andrew et al.		Observing class's trip to MDM
Mar 30	Yuan		Cluster cooling flows		Josh & Lia
	Jana		Stripping galaxies
	Ivan		Compact objects of some sort (GRBs or white dwarfs?)
Apr 6	Cameron Hummels		Communicating Astronomy Effectively		Josh & Lia
	Kyle		Spectral electrodynamics simulations
	Josh		James Jeans
Apr 13	Joo		Effect of dark matter subhalos on tidal tails.		Josh & Lia
	Neil		NYAS report
	Sarah		Science on social networks
Apr 20	Mary Putman		Conference report		Josh & Lia
	Colin McNally		Phurbas
	Josh Peek		New paper
	Arlin		Obama's space program plans
Apr 27	Marcel Agüeros		PTF & CCCP (not that one)		Josh & Lia
	Jennifer Weston
	Greg Bryan?
May 4	UGs		Undergraduate research presentations		Josh & Lia
			moved to Room 1332
May 11	Sarah				Lia!
	Cien		Weak lensing errors for standard sirens
	Duane		Conference review
May 18					Sign up!
May 25					Sign up!

Faculty, research staff and students: If you have a visitor coming for a given week, please contact the person in charge for that week. 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 presentations are prohibited, but a projector will be available for relevant images.