Pizza Lunch is our the weekly gathering of the Astronomy Department to make announcements, learn about visitors for the week and (most importantly) talk to each other about science we're interested in. Visitors are invited to tell us a little about what they are working on (chalkboard-style for 5-10 mins or less), but the majority of the time is reserved for local faculty, research scientists, postdocs, grads and undergrads."

Date

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Who

Subject

Jan 15

Jan 22

Eli Visbal (Harvard)

Jan 29

Joo Heon Yoon

Astronomy Paper Statistics

Zoltan

Dan

Feb 5

Dan

black hole- neutron star mergers

Marcel

why we don't know what we are doing with admissions

Julio Chaname (PUC)

Feb 12

Lam

gravitational waves

Josh

dust

Andrei

GeV neutrino's

Feb 19

Josh

DUST

Joe et al

Nova conference

Feb 26

Jeff Oishi (AMNH)

Matt

March 5

Brian Metzger

TBA

Munier

March 12

Matt

a workshop

Josh

Hubble fellow symposium

March 19

spring break

March 26

Lam, Zoltan and everybody else

Planck results

April 2

Adrian

Zoltan

Black Hole conference

April 9

Giovanni Strazzulla (Cantania)

Ions/astrochemistry/astrobiology

Summer

Science@Columbia blogging opportunity

Slavko

Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer

frits

japan

April 16

Zoltan

Constraining warm dark matter with lensed z=10 galaxies

April 23

Mike Zingale (Stony Brook)

Mary

Zoltan

weak lensing

Glenn Jones

new pulsar instrument

April 30

Josh Peek

some musings

Brian Metzger

Lia

Frits

POSS as art

May 7

Columbia Undergrads